Saturday, July 17, 2010


Just a quickie update today! We spent another week on Mt. Evans, polishing up the monowalls and other projects near the trail head started during the first week, and beggining the process of moving material down to the overlook end of the Summit Lake Trail, where our largest structures are going to be installed. This meant a lot of grading of the trail with Mcleods (big metal rakes), shovels and picks, and enough rock removal to ensure that our Bobcat and Mini-Excavator can have a smooth drive down to the drop site. The excavator was also moving large rocks out of the trail and should soon be in position to start building the large walls we'll need to properly grade the trail's far end. Once we can get the machienary down far enough the transporation of material should go faster, but for this week it required the strength of our own backs to move rock up to the overlook. We're widening the trail near the overlook with monowalls and contstructing a multi-tiered wall between two boulders to create a viewpoint of the hanging Chicago Lakes, seen above. The construction of the large walls should make for a great post once it gets underway in earnest. Stay tuned!

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