Belvidere and Brewster River

 Climbed Belvidere from the LT. Then a walk up the Brewster river.

Belvidere:

Brewster River:

Different day biking from house:

Huntington, Starksboro - dirt roads

 This was a longer dirt road ride. Nice area with few cars almost the whole way. 43 miles RT with 4,000 foot elevation gain. Not flat!

Parked at Cochrans ski area. Then Wes White->East St->Taft->Camels Hump Road->

Shaker Hill Road->Big Hollow->Starksboro center. Took the same route back except went back on Dugway instead of Wes White at the end.

Reminded me of a mountain bike ride that should be repeated again: Up Wes White to Loggers Loop and honey hollow.

End of July

 A few pictures after Thu night racing:

Mansfield: Frost->ridge to top->LT South

Woodward trail - mile 1

 Trail maintenance on the Woodward trail. Only cleared the first mile of trail. A fair number of trees down and slow going. Put up some markers, cut a number of downed and half downed trees, and cleared bushes and tree limbs. 3 miles RT to get to the start of the trail. Description below.

Holly and Ken 7/22. Trail start picture below:

New tower at Bolton. Nice! The old one was getting scary:

First big mess at mile .5. These trees are right in the trail.

Fixed mostly. There is a downhill going into this but we cleared a pretty wide area. Should be good:

Mile .6 roughly. Two big leaning trees. Holly is standing where the trail is supposed to go. We cleared the trail to go to the right of these trees. The trees would be hard to cut and will continue to fall down toward the old trail so going around them seemed like a good plan.

Trail now going to right of trees with marker:

Random trees that were half fallen. Cut down in picture. There were around a dozen of these in the first mile:

Just beyond 1 mile mark where we turned around. Big tree and a few others uprooted right in the middle of where the trail is supposed to go. Picture shows tree root ball. We cut some of the trees and branches on the right side and cut some of the trees beyond the root ball. Pretty narrow to get through when we were done but it is flat here so probably OK. Would be hard to do much more here as the root ball isn't going anywhere.

Another picture same area:

Clearing some of the smaller trees beyond root ball:

Narrow area to get around. Not great but there is a marker!

Up on the tower:

I am going to look into riding the lift up next time to get to the start faster:

Future thoughts: Go back up and clear next mile. Will likely take all day unless it is in better shape than mile 1. If we have another day after that then maybe drop a car and just try to walk entire trail to scope out how much work there is.