Worked on the Darvill Trail on the south side of Little Mountain with WTA this weekend. We placed on turnpike in the lower section of trail. Our main project was on the box steps through a steep part of the trail. Over the course of the two days we were able to build and install 12 new steps in a section of trail.

Saturday was an all womens crew who cut all the wood, and assembled most of them, as well as placing a total of 5 steps and filling them with materials. Sundays crew placed an additional 7 steps and made the area look beautiful!

Beautiful weekend for being outside helping to make the trail easier to hike by using stairs.

See you out on the trails!

Some really pretty stairs on the Darvill trail on Little Mountain. 

Spent two days working on the Darvill trail building a sexy set of curvy stairs. We put in 12 box stairs over two days. This trail was extremely wet and has been receiving a lot of love from WTA volunteers building puncheons, turnpikes, and lots of stairs. This trail is accessed from the other side of Little Mountain and a real gem. 

I took my toddler up again as part of our ongoing efforts to do all the trails on Little Mountain. This time we started at the Darvill trail trail and connected with the West Loop and then took Fred's shortcut up to the top. It was a beautiful sunny day, no bugs, and few people on the trails.

Another hike up Little Mountain with my toddler. This time we started from the bottom. We took Rooty up to the road and then over to Julieann. From Julieann we connected with Bonnie and Clyde and then up Ginny and over to the North Viewpoint.  We took the road back down to the car. Beautiful day for a hike!

Time up: 1 hr

Time down: 25 mins 

This was a day spent on a work party at a new section of trail starting off Hickox Rd called the Darvill trail. The trail itself is not new, the family that deeded the land to the city of Mt Vernon and the Skagit Land trust had made this trail years ago and it has been used by locals. However our all women crew came in to make some much needed improvements. We worked on a small bridge, some puncheon, turnpike and drainage issues. We really kicked it and got 3 out of 4 projects done! It was a day of learningthat we needed to square everything and level it out within an ant's eyelash or the whole project goes sideways at the end. We hauled gravel, shoveled muck, sawed, drilled and pounded and as it was time to go, we were screwing the last screws in on our bridging material. When this trail is finished, it will make an excellent addition to the trails in this nice little park. We hikers owe a debt of gratitude to the family who deeded this property to prevent it from becoming suburban sprawl instead of a nice little winter hiking spot.