The board in headquarters has never looked so clean. There was one new tree down listed on East Ridge Trail near Blooms Creek Campground but we went ahead with our original plan, which was to clean the steps on the Berry Creek Falls Trail.
In order to comply with social distancing guidelines we ended up with a five vehicle convoy and we drove out Gazos Creek fire road and then down Anderson Landing road to the Sunset Trail camp. The road was in good shape and we got there in a little under an hour.
With shovels, McLeods, a Pulaski and John Collins personal Travis tool we cut and scraped years of debris from the steps at Golden and Silver Falls.
It wasn't glamorous but it was sorely needed. We carried the dirt in bags donated by the District up and away from Berry Creek and broadcast the dirt in whatever spots we could find out of sight. The steps looked much better and safer when we were done.
At the request of facilities we also put new caution tape and improvised some barriers at the platform of Berry Creek Falls to try and dissuade hikers from congregating at the falls.
We picked up some garbage as well and put some logs and branches along the trail side at Silver Falls to try and give more visual cues that going into the falls is against park policy. There is still some work that is needed in the area like repairing the foot bridges that have missing planks.
The crew put in 85 hrs and thanks to John C, Shaymal, Peter, Michelle, John M, Aaron, Lucas, Noah, Mike and, Chris.
by Chris and Jeff
photos by Chris and Shaymal