Mazama Park via Ridley Creek — Friday, May. 28, 2021

I went out FS Rd 38 to the Ridley Creek trailhead to investigate if the footlog had survived the winter. The footlog was mostly intact but has been compromised by high water flow and it looks like one section was fine and had the handline attached but the first section was missing the handline and was at a pretty steep uphill angle. As it turned out this was just the beginning of the challenges on this trail. I counted over 60 trees down in the first mile and that's all the further I went. Some trees had been cleared in the first .2 of a mile, it looks like someone used a chainsaw (pretty sure this is in wilderness). Not sure what will happen this season with this trail, I imagine the FS might have other priorities but hopefully we'll be able to get some WTA crews out. It took 45 minutes for me to make it back down, losing the trail in a couple spots and having to circle back. Pretty epic trail damage, some of the trees are at least 3 ft. in diameter.