Deer Valley Maintenance and opening!

August 3rd, the Deer valley Trail officially opened for the 2017 season. The Lake Tahoe Hi-Lo’s jumped at the opportunity to do some trail maintenance and open the trail.

The South County Trail Riders have adopted this trail but they were extremely busy getting the Cal4 Sierra Trek set up and running smooth. My thanks to them for that because Sierra Trek went very smooth. The Motherload Rock Crawlers were also out on the trail working with the Forest Service making final plans for the maintenance scheduled for the last three weekends in Sept.

So the Hi-Lo’s went to work. This was typical of what we found, trees either on the ground or ready to fall.

We pulled out our saws and started cutting.

Once we got a system going, it went great. One team took off down the trail to deal with “THE” tree. More later. The second team would cut downed or hanging trees in to manageable lengths and would move on. The third team would clear the trail of the chopped up trees. We removed about 24 trees from the trail.

When I refer to a tree across the trail as “THE” tree, it means it was a really big tree. This tree had been driven around by those breaking the law. We try and educate to fellow users to stay on the trail but there are those who don’t care.

Our crew used the bed of a truck to safely attack the tree.

With a lot of hard work, the first section of the tree was removed.

Some of the guys wanted souvenirs. See the photo of the month.

The last section was removed and the original route was reopened.

The Hi-Lo’s returned to the trail on the 12th and removed even more trees in preparation of our Gambler’s Poker Run on the 19th of August.

Future Maintenance…

The mention of future maintenance refers to three weekends in Sept: 9/10, 16/17, 23/24. The plan is to move several hundred tons of rock to prevent erosion at the two creek crossings.

Please contact the Motherload Rock Crawlers if you plan on attending. Trailers are needed but not required.

https://cal4wheel.com/north-district-clubs/item/motherlode-rockcrawlers

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