Well, yesterday we took the dogs for a walk to see what our riding trails looked like after the winter's storms... it's a mess up there, though someone has already been through with a chain saw and cleared the trail, there's just a LOT of downed trees.
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Cool pics... Wow, that's a lot of downed timber.
Mornin' folkses... [sip]
:-)
I had a ~date~ last night. With a girl and everything. :-)
OK... its not like that... it's somebody I dated long ago, and have known for more than several years. Every now and then we get together and catch up on things. We both had stories to tell. Was interesting and fun. But it was up in Everett-- yikes-- the traffic up that way is just bananas. I thought commuting ~south~ was hairy, but no...
Who maintains trails? Volunteers?
Eeek, that's gonna be a lot of work - though I'm impressed with how much is done already!
Wow, those tress are amazing. In some of your older pictures of the trail, I didn't realize how large the trees were. Now that they're down and you can see the sawed off trunks... You get a better idea of how tall and how old the tress were that fell. Shoot, you could saw off a "small" cut from one of the tress and make a breakfast table top!
And thus forest is renewed, more light reaching the ground, the trees eventually decaying and so the circle commences again.
Did you happen, by chance, to count the rings on any of the cut trees? Likely, few if any alive today saw those trees when they were seedlings.
In AZ, we used 100 year rotation in the Pondersa Pine belt, meaning the trees I marked to cut would not be replaced for a century. Makes one think, it does.