Trail Clearing, Lost Keys
Posted: May 18, 2026 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drainages, FOTR, keys, trees Leave a commentYesterday, FOTR worked the Rubicon Trail from the residential area to the new (yet to be constructed) intersection of 16E75 (The Rubicon) and 03-04.
There were maybe a dozen volunteers, from a few different clubs. Paul even cooked burgers for us at the end of the day! The hot burgers were awesome as the temperatures dropped and a few snowflakes started to fall.
Two of us retreated from the staging area to the beginning of the trail to clear some logs from the edge of the trail to make sure there is room for wide trailers.
Yes, it could use a good stiff broom but the cyclists can come in behind us and sweep.
Not pictured is the large and growing pothole just before the bridge over McKinney Creek. We’ll let the Basin know they need to address that one.
I didn’t get too many pictures on the trail but here we had just winched that large mass of downed tree to the side of the trail behind the Jeep. Others worked to clear the drains along the trail. This was just one of many drainages cleared.
This is as far in as we went. It’s just past where the new intersection of 16E75 and 03-04 will be. We got a report that there are many more trees down further up 03-04.
I will be back out on Wednesday with the TNF to clear 16E76, 16E79 and 03-04, given time. I’ll post up with a report as soon as I get home on Wednesday.
At the end of the day, a Jeep pulled into the staging area and left FOTR a set of keys that were found between “The Step” and “Hummer Bend”. Send me a comment if you know who they belong to and I’ll work to get them to the owner.
Great day on the trail. Positive attitudes. Capable rigs. Motivated people.
That’s how a volunteer day is supposed to work.
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Rubicon Ronin
The 'Other' Rubicon 