Ben Lomond - Week 2

Ben Lomond Trail - report provided by SBTS crew leader, Henry O'Donnell

5-24-10 The SBTS started the week with an eight man crew consisting of Coz, Max, Maggie, Eric Stringer, Jim, Chuck, Mark and Henry. Chuck and Eric went up the trail and continued logging out the trail until they reached the snow line, cutting out 16 more trees and covering approximately 500 feet of trail. The majority of the crew worked on a 64 foot long and two foot tall rock wall in an extremely wet section of trail. Most of the wall was completed, but some work was left for the next day. Coz and Max built a 14 foot long wall that is four feet tall, then did touch up rock work, chiseling and braking rock until they caught up with the rest of the crew.

5-25-10 Will came down making us a nine man crew and we all continued doing rock work. The 64 foot rock wall form the day before was completed, and two more were started, but not finished before we were rained out. The crew spread out and worked on a nasty root section, a 34 foot by 4 foot wall and a 24 foot by 2 foot rock wall. All the work was in the same wet section of trail covering an additional 128 feet of trail.