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
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