Entries from June 2008

June 28, 2008

Masonry on the Kidney Stone

Before

New and Improved
The Kidney Stone is an alternate expert line on the Whiskey on the Rocks top section of the Whiskey trail. It looks particularly intimidating, but actually rides smoothly, as long as you stay on the line. The wooden ramp which bridged the gap in the rock spine was attached to an adjacent tree, [...]

June 27, 2008

Road Construction on the Dewdney

Beaumont Timber Co will be upgrading their main roads on the Sophia Property over the coming weeks, so some of the sections of the Dewdney trail that utilize the existing road network will have machinery and crews working. The trail remains open, but users should exercise extra caution, watch for unexpected hazards, and make sure [...]

June 27, 2008

June 27th Update

As this shot from the back of Mt Lepsoe shows, the Seven Summits trail is still at least a couple of weeks away from opening. We’ve cleaned up the trail from both ends, cutting out some significant windfall, but from the North it gets pretty snowy at about the Elgood saddle, while from the South, [...]

June 10, 2008

June 10th Update

The Red Mountain Summit Trail
The trail crew has been busy out on the trails, still working our way through the network, clearing windfall, checking the integrity of all the constructed features, raking off debris, controlling drainage, and making lists of projects to come back to when we’ve completed our seasonal maintenance.
A separate KCTS crew has [...]