MJR Trail Crew

By Russ | Art (AW12345) and I started the 3N93 workday by digging a ditch and building a water bar to divert the water that was flowing along the east end of the trail. …read on…

Russ, Tom, Randall and Ryan worked to divert and clear blocked stream crossings and cut back brush along 3N93. Major clearing of the stream crossing at the rock garden was performed to repair stream hydrology and divert the flow from entering directly into the rock garden. Thanks for all the hard work.

By Ryan | Six MJR AAT crew members installed two gabion baskets along the off camber shelf section of 3N93. Sharon, Kurt, Mat, Russ, Nick and Ryan filled two medium size gabion baskets utilizing the USFS trailer to haul rocks. Four separate trailer loads were required to completely fill the baskets. …read on…

By Russ | On Sunday, May 2, 2010 Nick (USMC 0369), Tom (Black & Tan TJ) and myself (Russ Chung) started at the west end of 3N93. Our first project was to divert the water so that it would not run down the trail through the west rock garden. …read on…

Our AAT work day on Holcomb Creek began with our usally safety meeting at the Fawnskin Fire Station. Our work group consisded of Tom (Black&Tan TJ), Doug + Tracy(FishPoet), Jason (Jason), Mat (Matterdaddy), Russ (Russ Chung), Nick + Barb (USMC 0369), Jim (Forest Grump), and myself + wife, Ryan + Cathy (Hook&Ladder). Four addtional AAT volunteers also met us to assist our work efforts: Harold, Chris, JC, and Mandy. …read on…

By Kurt | We spent the day moving a rock on Holcomb. That would be called Nick’s rock from now on because he’s the one who chose the damn thing. Let’s put it this way, if it was to somehow fall on a Jeep, you would be able to roll the jeep up on a toilet paper roll, that’s how flat it would be. …read on…

By Ryan | What a wonderful two days doing AAT work on Holcomb Creek! On Saturday, October 3rd, six AAT members, Chuck, Alycia, Nick, Jason, Cathy, and Ryan worked eight long hours repairing the stream crossing on the east end of 3N93. …read on…

Rick, Tam, Chris, John and I arrived at the gate at 8:45 (on time!) and were greeted by most of the group! After hosting the safety meeting, Doug announced the plan for the day: to continue draining and fill in the remaining creek overflow at the 3N93 crossing. We used pickup and work trucks to cart rocks around from other areas of the trail. …read on…

5 Hardworking Adopt-A-Trail volunteers; Chuck, Alycia, Doug, Cathy, and Ryan, worked an eleven hour work day on the Holcomb Creek trail moving rocks, mud, and even bigger rocks. The AAT day began with our safety meeting and breifing at the valero market/gas station. We traveled through green valley and stopped at the “west” entrance to 3N93 to check on the fence. We were glad to see the fence was still intact from out previous AAT day two weeks prior. Since Ryan had managed to pickup the forest service trailer along with some extra fencing materials, the AAT crew added some additional posts to futher prohibit access through the west end entrance. The AAT crew spent about an hour working on the fence.

Traveling to the east entrance of Holcomb Creek, by means of 3N14, the AAT Crew entered the Holcomb Creek Trail and approached the MAJOR project of the day – draining the nasty black pond formed at the creek crossing. After discussing various options a plan was formed to divert water from the pond to allow the pond to drain. A diversionary dam was constructed using four trailer loads of rocks to applish this. The goal of this task was to follow Greg’s direction to raise the stream crossing with rocks to eliminate stream water contact on vehicle under carraiges. After allowing the pond to slowly drain we found the nasty murky mud hidden below the water. This work project will certainly need many more workers and AAT days to help raise the stream bed.

After lunch our AAT crew moved toward the rock garden to continue building and extending it. Together the crew managed to add about 3-4 more feet of rock to the end of the rock garden. And yes, at days end Chuck managed to move the biggest rock of the day which now helps futher enhance his bragging rights!

Our work party finished work on the Holcomb Creek trail at about 6pm with no injuries or broken equipment.

-The rock garden still needs about 10-20feet more of rock but this project now falls second in priority to raising the stream bed.

Doug = 15hrs
Chuck = 15hrs
Alycia = 15 hrs
Cathy = 15.5hrs (pickup trailer)
Ryan = 15.5hrs (pickup trailer)

Total hrs 76hrs

By Ryan – Our Trail Maintenance day on the Holcomb Creek trail began with our safety meeting at the Valero gas station. Kurt, Chuck and Alicia, along with AAT leaders Ryan and Cathy traveled to the west entrance to the Holcomb Creek trail through Green Valley. Upon arrival, we found the fence/gate to the west entrance down. Further inspection showed that the gate/fence was obviously/intentionally cut to gain unauthroized access to the trail. All AAT trail crew members worked on re-building/re-establishing the fence to block access. It took us about 45 minutes to rebuild and pound stakes back into the ground to accomplish this task. …read on…