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Post by dparrott on Apr 10, 2010 16:22:13 GMT -5
A 2.5 mile of Bartram Trail in Wildwood Park connects the nearly finished 9 mile section of Bartram (Petersburg to Wildwood) to Keg Creek Trail. This 2.5 mi section has been lopped and trees chainsawed out. Here's MD with chips flying: Long Cane Trails has walked the trail and will be bringing in a machine to grade trail in select sections - using the grant received from Johnson Controls. However, it's rideable now - I rode it yesterday. Directions: You can park at the South Keg Creek trailhead. Ride Keg and take left at T junction and cross Washington Rd. Follow flagging and yellow blazes. Watch for yellow jacket nest shortly after sharp left turn in thinly treed area (hope to get rid of that soon). Take left turn onto woods road and follow for 1 mile (crossing main paved park road). Continue on woods road until flagging on right signals re-entry to single track. This will bring you out to second paved park road. You can return the same way or ride the paved roads. Take right, then left, pass gatehouse to Washington Rd. Turn right to reach start.
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Post by azdrawdy on Apr 10, 2010 19:27:07 GMT -5
Great morning DP, JW, Tom and my SO. We got probably a dozen trees knocked out of the way. Some large, some small. Those that have no idea of the "connector" from Petersburg to Wildwood to Keg are in for one he!!uva eye-openr! Starting the day DP using his new Husky to beat up on some pine I was told this was saved "Just for me!" How special!! Several friends, several hours, lots completed. THANKS! MD
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Post by seenvic on Apr 11, 2010 8:57:02 GMT -5
That is going to be a sweet ride. A great mix of old school primitive and new school machine built. From what I saw, the line is mostly there. Certainly enough of line there for it to be ridden in pretty quickly. Wine Creek had less tread back in the day than what I saw out there.
Thanks for the work. Look forward to doing the big ride out there.
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Post by dparrott on Apr 18, 2010 21:19:44 GMT -5
We treated the yellowjacket nest late this afternoon with Sevin - hope it works. Mark Hanna and Dustin came along and Dustin nearly ran right through it. Also, hung trail signs that COE kindly laminated for us.
Also, Charlie Mock and I ran the DR through this section on Friday.
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Post by dgaddis1 on Apr 19, 2010 8:02:33 GMT -5
The trail is there and open - go ride it folks. It needs wheels.
Sorry I almost ran through the nest...at first I couldn't figure out why yall were yelling at me. Then I finally understood what you were yelling, so I stopped. I was a little tired lol.
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Post by dparrott on Apr 23, 2010 15:19:27 GMT -5
Yellowjackets are gone!! The trail has been blown off.
Long Cane Trails will be in there tomorrow putting in new machine made trail with the grant money. Should be done by tomorrow evening.
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Post by dgaddis1 on Apr 23, 2010 21:50:01 GMT -5
The trail rides pretty nicely now, thanks for the work.
There's only one bridge left to be built on the section between Wildwood and Petersburg, at the rocky creek. Materials are already in place. How do they get them down there?
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Post by dparrott on Apr 25, 2010 21:05:20 GMT -5
For that last bridge, I would guess they would bring them most of the way by boat and then skid them in overland with a machine. Long Cane Trails completed their work with the Johnson Controls grant yesterday. The most noteworthy feature of the Wildwood section is the creek crossing. Here's a pic of the old, rough and unsustainable crossing: Here is the new creek crossing that LCT built: This section is fresh and the ramp from the creek is quite soft. Please give it several days without rain to firm up.
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