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Mount Walker — Friday, Nov. 27, 2015

Olympic Peninsula > Hood Canal

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Type of Hike

Day hike

Trail Conditions

Obstacles on trail:
    Trees down across trail.

Road

Road suitable for all vehicles

Bugs

No bugs

Snow

Snow free

Trails Hiked

This outing was part of a WTA trail work party!

Crew Chief Mace reviewing WTA policies and covering equipment safety
Every year Crew Chief Mace leads a fun "Gravy Burner" WTA team to work on this steep trail the day after Thanksgiving. Thanks to recent storms, there were indeed several downed trees we took care of. In the 3min video of highlights below, I tried to capture typical scenes of a trail crew day: intro by Mace at trailhead, teaching on site by asst crew chief Jim, using a cross saw, using an axe, tying a bowline knot to drag a log off the trail, having lunch and finally gathering at the cars afterwards. A fun, productive day!
a 'before' shot for one downed tree
the 'after' shot
Mother-Son team Yvette & Ian working the cross saw on the third downed tree
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Comments

Thank you for all your hard work!

And for the trip report. I'm thankful for amazing volunteers like you.

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Loren Drummond on Dec 03, 2015 05:09 PM