Staging Area Partly Blocked

On my way in to clear trees this morning, I discovered the staging area had a HUGE area blocked off. Last week I posted about a guy calling me about a hazard tree. I thought that would have been taken care of by last weekend. Nope.

The main route is closed. You must go through the staging area.

It seems the Forest Service didn’t want to drop the tree while there were trucks and trailers in the parking lot. Now I didn’t drive out via Rubicon, I exited via Blackwood Canyon. I’m hoping the tree was taken care of today but I very much doubt it.

Now there is still green on that tree. So, I’m not sure what the hurry is all about.

So, if you’re headed up for Rubithon, parking might be tight. There is parking up Forest Road 03 or Blackwood Canyon, but you then need to run Forest Road 03-04 over to the Rubicon. Again, lower Hobbit is blocked by a down tree across the trail.

I have emailed the Forest Service to let them know this is unacceptable and I cc’ed the Rubicon Trail Foundation to help with more eyes on the issue. We’ll see who gets what done.

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