Good Evening Fellow NCTr's:
Today's trailwork excursion started off pretty positively as Bob Cody, Lee Fairbanks, Tom Bogdan, Doug Turner and I gathered at the Sankey Hill Road trailhead at the northern end of Cemex with the mower, weedwackers, pruners, a chainsaw, polesaw, and every other implement of trail maintenance you can think of. The plan was to get all of Cemex cleared and mowed for Sunday's hike, and working together, in conjunction with with what Tom Scardina had cleared with the weedwacker on Wednesday, we made excellent progress, going section by section and having all but the last mile done by 3:00 PM. "One mile left? No sweat. We'll be done by 4:00."
However, when Bob and I headed south from Tony Dytko Road to clean up that "last section", we encountered the impact of the logging operation that's been at work in there over the past week. There was really no trail left to mow, with giant mud ruts, downed trees and limbs, and wiped out blaze trees in its place. That section of trail - Tony Dytko to River Road isn't just closed - it is gone. At least it is right below Tony Dytko Rd for .3 or .4 of a mile. We didn't do the recon the whole way to the railroad tracks as our find was quite discouraging. Some pics from today start here.
(I wrote my rant here at first, but then I deleted it.) We can rebuild it once they are done doing what they are doing there. Stay posted for info going forward.
Thanks to those guys for coming out today- everyone did a great job and the trail from Tony Dytko to Sankey Hill is in excellent shape.
Dave Brewer
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