{"id":6345,"date":"2016-01-24T20:34:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T04:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6345"},"modified":"2016-01-24T22:40:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T06:40:36","slug":"ken-burton-trail-restoration-day-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/01\/24\/ken-burton-trail-restoration-day-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burton Trail Restoration – Day 8"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Completed<\/a>

Completed trail at the top of the switchbacks<\/p><\/div>\n

Sunday, January 24, 2016 we had another successful day of trail restoration. Anyone driving up the Angeles Crest Highway today, who happened to glance across the Arroyo Seco canyon towards Brown Mountain would have seen ten volunteers spread out along the switchbacks, the upper half of which are now clearly visible once again.<\/p>\n

\"Clearing<\/a>

Clearing Brush has been a major component of this project<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Scouting<\/a>

Scouting the work ahead<\/p><\/div>\n

Today we\u00a0concentrated on brushing the next .25 miles\u00a0of the trail, which included six switchbacks. \u00a0Most of this section has held up extremely well, and only a few places will require rock-armoring and\/or drainage restoration. \u00a0We took the opportunity to scout and flag the next half mile of trail beyond that,\u00a0identifying the original trail in places where animals and unauthorized trail users–it is still a closed trail–had created unsustainably steep bypasses around heavy brush and a some rock slides.<\/p>\n

Our next trailwork days, tentatively scheduled for\u00a0February 7<\/a><\/strong>, and February 21 (with MWBA) we’ll concentrate on tread work for the section we\u00a0cleared of brush\u00a0today. There are no major problem spots along this section. We’ll also continue brushing the trail beyond there to re-establish the trail corridor and better see the condition of the tread. In some sections we scouted, the brush was so thick that there was no way through, forcing us either up the\u00a0slope or down the slope to get around the brush and back on the remnants of trail tread.<\/p>\n

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\"Failed<\/a>

Failed switchback #16 will need extensive work<\/p><\/div>\n

The biggest problem section will be\u00a0at the 16th switchback. Here the switchback itself has been washed away, and we’ll need to\u00a0do extensive rock work to make the section sustainable and rideable. Much of the area is soft, loose dirt, and the trail is completely filled with brush, slough and debris. Nothing our dedicated volunteers can’t handle!<\/p>\n

\"All<\/a>

All in a day’s work. The hike\/ride back out<\/p><\/div>\n

After today’s work, those volunteers who still had\u00a0time were treated to lunch at a local restaurant. It is the dedication of these volunteers, many of whom have come out every trailwork day we’ve scheduled, that allows us to keep pushing forward to complete the trail.\u00a0Major kudos to all of you who have contributed!<\/p>\n

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Sunday, January 24, 2016 we had another successful day of trail restoration. Anyone driving up the Angeles Crest Highway today, who happened to glance across the Arroyo Seco canyon towards Brown Mountain would have seen ten volunteers spread out along the switchbacks, the upper half of which are now clearly visible once again. Today we\u00a0concentrated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,13,257,17],"tags":[371],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6345"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6357,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6345\/revisions\/6357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}