T-33a tree clearing with Tom & Rob
| Saturday evening / night Max and I traveled to the T-33a trail as we heard it was open but was blocked by a tree across the trail. Monday was a good weather day and Tom was looking to get out "somewhere". A plan to return to T-33a to clear trees became a goal. Rob ended up joining in for a three stooges day. Good times. |
| 5.5 miles, round trip, 4h49m
overall time, average speed 1.1mph We had perhaps 2 hours of tree cutting. |
| Heading west from the north edge of Longmont with the town of Lyons as the meeting spot. |
| Up a switchback or two on the trail. |
| Peak To Peak Highway at the Pleasant Valley curve. |
| Spring run-off |
| The Aspen Tree Swamp |
| This is what remained of the
large tree Max and I cleared two nights prior. We cut back the tree a
bit more from the edge of the trail. There was a comment to get before and after photos for each clearing task. I didn't live up to the task. |
| The trail had several trees that were similar to this. We stopped perhaps five or seven times to cut something. |
| Rob's FJ40 wanted one pull up a ledge. |
| A nice day though clouds are starting to thicken for the afternoon showers. |
| High enough to have spots of snow still about. |
| T-Shirt snowball fights - fantastic! |
| This tree was left alongside the trail though we did remove the limbs extending onto the trail. Our three man crew was perfectly in sync - one cutting, one holding the cut branch / removing it and passing it to the third to toss into the forest. |
| I didn't quite catch what message Rob had for me. |
| Something about he only needed ONE, yes, ONE, strap pull the whole day. |
| Rob & Tom
descending a step. If your browser does not show the video, you might need to upgrade to an HTML v5 compliant browser. |
| An odd thing happened. At the
night visit, Max and I were on the trail and we were stopped by a large
tree
crossing the trail. I believed the trail went on just a bit more past
the tree. Today, we came to THE end - but there was no tree across the
trail. Where did it go? Where were we the prior night? I did not have
the prior visit's
(after dark, in the rain) track log in my GPS so I'd have to wait until
I returned home to compare the log. The below image shows how the two visits compare. The red line stopped at a tree crossing the trail. The green line, extended past that "blockage". I saw no evidence of a downed tree. Odd. |
