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Message from Terry:

Hi Everyone - The work weekend for this Saturday, July 17th is going to be a very light work weekend. We will ask that you only work on trash clean up and using hand tools to brush back trails, clean out tail ditches of the rolling dips and put more trail markers up as needed. I just had a meeting today with our engineering folks and the contractors for the trails. The trails work that has been contracted through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will begin on Monday, July 19th on Rocky Mountain Loop Trail and then they will move over to the Falls Dam Trail. We are not going to have any body working from the Forest Service on this weekend as we have had several people out on fire and other assignments last week and this week.

If your club was planning on coming up planning to come up this weekend please see Janet Becker at Arrowhead Host site and she'll get you signed up and she'll give you supplies. Janet will give me the sign up list so I can keep track of your hours. If you don't meet up with Janet but you still come up and volunteer please send me an email with the list of folks that participated, the hours worked and the activity that you did. Thanks a lot everyone.

The August work weekend is scheduled for the 21st. I'll let you know if we'll be doing the heavier work then or not as we get closer.

The work on Rocky Mountain Loop Trail will be done in sections so sections of the trail will be closed during the maintenance work. The contractors intend begin at the southern crossing below Dutch John Trailhead and go counterclockwise onto the east side. These sections of trail will be closed during weekends at some times during the rest of the season. They are going to have it so that is a certain section is closed off that people would go onto Sawmill Trail, Slab Pile Trail or Dickey Bell Trail. The Falls Dam Trail maintenance will be done from the Falls Dam and Art Lilley TH down to the Flatwoods TH. This trail will be closed during the time when they are doing the maintenance work including some weekends. They are hoping and aiming to be completed on Rocky Mountain Loop Trail & Falls Dam Trail by Labor Day Weekend, but it might take longer.

Additionally, we will be getting 2 trail bridges installed this year. One will be installed at the stream crossing on the Dickey Bell Connector Trail down next to Green Gap Road near the Flatwoods Trailhead. This section of trail will be closed during this work and during this time OHV use will be allowed on the Green Gap Road including ATVs, UTVs, and dirtbikes.

The 2nd bridge will be installed at the northern Rocky Mountain Loop Trail crossing. While this bridge is being installed and a new culvert is installed under the road, etc. the existing crossing will be left in for OHV use but there will be times when that section of trail would be closed or there would be flaggers there directing traffic.

If you have any questions please feel free to send me an email or give me a call.

Janet - Can you put this information on the website for me please. Thanks a lot.

Bye - Terry
 
My weekends are packed with work. This weekend is also the VA ride so most of the guys are up there.
 
Trail is done. From the sign though it is not ours.

Greg you might want to look into that with Terry. I mentioned it to Janet when we chatted today. The sign for Wolfden says it is taken care of by NCTTORA still. Signs are on both ends. Unless we are both working on it now, but would still be nice to have our name up there also.

Trail was not too bad though, just about 4 bags of garbage. Stayed dry while we were there also. Took the 60 up there instead of the 80. 60 did really good. Will post pics later.
 
Some pics of the day....
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Guess i should mention there were only 19 of us show up to clean all of the trails. Very bad showing in my mind seeing all the people that go up there to use the trails. I know where our club was but how about all the other people out there in jeeps and other vehicles. There were a few from the Trail Blazers there also.

By no means was this directed to anyone in general out there, just venting about all the people i see out there on the weekends normally from other groups and then this weekend they had something better to do. After our little chat with Janet the F S is trying to be proactive compared to Tellico but if the general public does not help somrhow i think we might end up the same way sometime down the road. Heck, i think the range is down for awhile if not for good now. Guy on the trail right behind it got hit in a jeep. Kept the round to show the F S.
 
Keep in mind that other clubs might do work at other times. CNC was there in Feb during the off season and has had a couple other work days. But I agree, plenty of folks do nothing.
 
Guess i just miss the old days. Back in the early 90's the trails would shut down for the weekend and you would have a bunch of groups show up to do work. I still think they should of shut them down while we were trying to do the work this weekend. Might of got some people to wake up out there that they might want to help than just fly by.

Again just venting because i see us going the way of Tellico sooner than later.
 
Thanks for making this one Daren, most of the group was up in VA for the July ride. I will email Terry today about this and see what the status is. I know she mentioned they were making the sign and it should be up soon but that was a while back.
 
Greg, i remember you saying that the last time we cleaned it up months ago. I even asked Janet about it thinking maybe we had been given a different trail that i did not know about, but she said we still had Wolfden. She also mentioned that they give the signs to some teenagers / college(?) guys to put up so they may have messed it up also. Was just really a heads up.
 
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