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Post by seenvic on Jan 27, 2007 14:40:06 GMT -5
I walked about 3.5 miles of the Great Wall Loop today - and it's hit and miss as far as conditions go. But overall, I'd say this loop just needs time. 90% is fine. 6% has minor issues, and 4% has surface water on it. Very little is muddy or has water that would come over the top of your shoe. Just alot of seeps that won't go away until the trees start to pull the water table down.
I mapped what I walked and will put together a plan for working this section. But really, there are so many 50'-200' seeps on the Great Wall, time is the only thing that will re-open this loop. I am not that surprised. These sections were very wet last winter just after they were built.
Ready to be worked on now is the entire Brown Wave, the Upper Skinny and the first 3.5 miles of the Great Wall going CCW. We need to clean out the dips and armor some sections. Other sections just need time like that section at Horn Creek years ago.
Closing these trails was the right thing for the USFS to do. The wet sections would have become a real mess had the trails gotten much traffic this winter.
Just need to line up a few dates to work.
I mapped what I walked and will put together a plan for working this section. But really, there are so many 50'-200' seeps on the Great Wall, time is the only thing that will re-open this loop. I am not that surprised. These sections were very wet last winter just after they were built.
Ready to be worked on now is the entire Brown Wave, the Upper Skinny and the first 3.5 miles of the Great Wall going CCW. We need to clean out the dips and armor some sections. Other sections just need time like that section at Horn Creek years ago.
Closing these trails was the right thing for the USFS to do. The wet sections would have become a real mess had the trails gotten much traffic this winter.
Just need to line up a few dates to work.
