The Trail Crew has been fortunate to attract new people and keep them coming back and one of the main draws is the ability to make a visible impact in a single workday. Whether clearing winter blowdowns and reopening a trail in the pre-CZU fire days or clearing the wall of regrowth that has taken over many trail corridors since the 2020 fires, seeing the impact of your effort each workday is what keeps many on the Crew returning.
Tail of the Sequoia Trail. 36 Workdays and 5088 volunteer hours clearing 2.69mi (4.33km).
But brushing a trail is not that kind of work! And we've been doing it since mid-May.
Brushing (aka 'quality control') is the final detail work that is important so we don't leave a lot of small things for others, but the Crew was weary of it and looking forward to our June 28th workday that would be our last on Sequoia Trail.
The work was typical brushing with a pole hedge trimmer cutting back vegetation along the trail edges, others carrying or dragging tarps of debris along the trail to areas where it could be moved downhill to off trail hiding locations, while some made final checks for last minute things we had missed.
By the end of the workday we had a trail that looked much like it did before the fires. The District crew still needs to come in and replace several burned out foot bridges and build retaining walls, but clearing work on Sequoia is finished.
The crew put in 126 hours and thanks to Guy Albertelli, Fremont Bainbridge, Jim Brooks, Rory Brooks, John Collins, Tom Condy, Katherine Davis, Dale Elliott, Norb Lazar, Janie Leifhelm, Jack Marshall, John Martin, Janette Mello, Mike Peasland, Brian Washburn, Bruce Washburn and Chris Young, for helping close out our work on Sequoia.
by Mike and Jeff
photos by Bruce and Mike