On the way to Hunting Hollow last Saturday morning I stopped by my frieands hourse where we keep a cache of trail tools and loaded them up, and then drove over Hwy 101 on the San Martin Rd overpass. I snapped a photo out the window of the snow on the east mountains of Coe Park.
I'm not really sure why we get so excited about seeing snow on the hills around here.
We also get excited about rising creek water. Here the rains have swollen Coyote Creek deeply coveringthe ford out to the Rock House.
But hardly anyone except me and few close friends get excited about the most significant ongoing new trail construction in Santa Clara County. Good grief, look at that mud!
We continue to work no matter what the conditions, because we are not going to get many days to work in soft, err muck, conditions. All we have are sporadic Saturdays.
This is a posed photo of Plymmer. The trail is really taking shape.
It was a great turnout of 15 volunteers, especially considering the difficult weather. It rained quite a bit, and it was cold. But it is caliornia afterall, and compared to much of the USA, this is mild winter weather. Here we have a couple of horse riding ladies putting in some serious teamwork with mcleods on the trail.
This section was a quagmire zone, and it was really horendous to try to shape into a trail bench. It indicates that there will be some drainage issues here in the future, and we are planning on some rolling grade dips here.
Here's one of our hiker volunteers working on a nice section. The tree on the right is going to suffer isn't it? I think they could have arced the trail down below the tree and given it a good butress of soil. The section was left pretty much the way you see it here. We need to avoid impacting trees as much as possible.
Turkeys are mating now, and they are showing up in garrulous hordes all over the best meadows and trail intersections.
So goes the trail work. There is so much to do up there yet. I know that all trail work photos are pretty much the same thing. How many times can you look at people grubbing away at a trail? Hence, I am going to be looking for more perspectives on the subject, and try to be more creative.
These are the times here on planet Earth.
After the trail work I high tailed it to a party for someone transferring to another location from work. There I met my wife, and we reaquainted ourselves with old friends who left the company years ago. We went out to dinnerwith themafter the party and I drank so much that I was pretty well hung-over with a headache on Sunday morning. I got well enough to go on a bike ride in the afternoon, but I didn't get much done. I had left my truck at the brewery the night before. My wife drove us home that night. So my ride was going to pick up the truck. Yes the partying and dining and all was fun, and the beer exceptionally good (and free!). The whiskey was not a good idea! LOL. This sort of drinking was not usual for me twenty years ago, but I have slowed way down. I didn't get rudely drunk. In the end, it was a very relaxing experience overall.
Freezing out there tonight. Will I have the guts to ride to work tomorrow morning?
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