Sunday, September 27, 2009
Season Ending: A Post Season Review
To those of you who have been following my blog this summer thank you. It has been a wild summer and I wish I had been able to update more. The results are here and it has been a successful season despite several large interruptions. I'm not going to get into it much, but I will mention. On August 19th 2009 an Army helicopter crashed on Mount Massive. This caused the mountain to be closed for several weeks. This put us back with our hours. This also prevented several volunteer projects from taking place.
After this occurred we worked very hard to finish the key sections of trails. These key sections that were worked on this summer were an upper reroute that begins about a mile up on the flats and completes at a cairn near an glissade (sp?) social trail. The second reroute we constructed is on the ridge. We built cairns to direct along in confusing areas. The new social is a section of stairs and walls built through a rough loose section. It looks great now. It was confusing and loose before. I'm happy with the end result. The primary pieces that needed to be constructed are there. There are a lot of areas that still need restoration. The area parallel to where we built the reroute has a significant amount of re contouring and plugging to finish. It looks like we will be about to do some more this upcoming week on out High Mountain Institute Project (HMI).
I will write more later about the season.
cheers,
-Joe G
CFI Project Manager
After this occurred we worked very hard to finish the key sections of trails. These key sections that were worked on this summer were an upper reroute that begins about a mile up on the flats and completes at a cairn near an glissade (sp?) social trail. The second reroute we constructed is on the ridge. We built cairns to direct along in confusing areas. The new social is a section of stairs and walls built through a rough loose section. It looks great now. It was confusing and loose before. I'm happy with the end result. The primary pieces that needed to be constructed are there. There are a lot of areas that still need restoration. The area parallel to where we built the reroute has a significant amount of re contouring and plugging to finish. It looks like we will be about to do some more this upcoming week on out High Mountain Institute Project (HMI).
I will write more later about the season.
cheers,
-Joe G
CFI Project Manager
Saturday, August 1, 2009
Heading up for a ten day hitch
It's Saturday night and I'm in Leadville. I wanted to update you all before I head back up the mountain. I am meeting a group of Rocky Mountain Youth Corps (RMYC) tomorrow morning. RMYC has partnered with CFI in the past and it has worked very well. The RMYC area a youth corps ages 18-24. They spend a summer doing mostly trail work in the rocky mountains. They will be spending the rest of the summer with us. I expect that we will get a lot of good work done. Don't be saddened though. There are still opportunities to volunteer. If you are interested in working with us just check out our website 14ers.org and contact us. We will take people anytime we are up there.
End of July: some old work, some new work, and some views.
You can see Buffalo Peak in the distance just poking above the clouds. One morning the clouds swept in like an ocean in the valley.
A staircase we build.
The flowers this spring/summer have been amazing. All of that rain we received in June made July very beautiful!
A staircase some volunteers from Overland Summers built.
These are some more stairs Overland Summers built.
Some work done and some to do.
MT Massive from around 13,000 ft in elevation.
These are "Old Men of the Mountain." They are in the sunflower family. They turn to face the sun.
This is a wall and 4 stairs that Zack from Overland Summers built.
These are a set of five stairs that Riley from Overland Summers Built
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