Trail work done in 2021.
Summary Total 30 days. 80 hours trail work, 113 hours total including travel time.
- Harris Creek Trail - 75 hours over 28 days. 103 hours with travel time.
- Raging River - 3 hours over 1 day. 4 hours with travel time.
- Alpine Baldy - 2 hours over 1 day. 6 hours with travel time.
- Mt St Helens - 0 hours over 0 days. 0 hours with travel time.
| Count Days | Day | Work Hours | Location | Travel Hours | Type |
| 30 | Fri, Dec 03 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush, trash |
| 29 | Wed, Dec 01 | 1 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trash |
| 28 | Wed, Nov 03 | 5 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, trash |
| 27 | Sat, Oct 30 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 26 | Fri, Oct 29 | 3 | Raging River | 1 | trees |
| 25 | Wed, Oct 27 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees |
| 24 | Thu, Oct 20 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees |
| 23 | Sat, Oct 16 | 5 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, brush |
| 22 | Wed, Oct 13 | 5 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, brush |
| 21 | Tue, Oct 12 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 20 | Sat, Oct 09 | 4 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 19 | Fri, Oct 08 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 18 | Sun, Oct 03 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 17 | Sat, Oct 02 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 16 | Fri, Oct 01 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, brush |
| 15 | Sun, Sep 26 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trash |
| 14 | Sat, Sep 25 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 13 | Fri, Sep 24 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 12 | Sat, Sep 18 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | drainage, trees, trash |
| 11 | Wed, Sep 08 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trash |
| 10 | Sat, Sep 04 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush, trash |
| 9 | Fri, Aug 06 | 2 | Alpine Baldy | 4 | trees |
| 8 | Sun, Aug 01 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trash |
| 7 | Sun, May 30 | 4 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees |
| 6 | Wed, May 26 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees |
| 5 | Sat, May 22 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, trash |
| 4 | Fri, May 21 | 2 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trash |
| 3 | Tue, May 11 | 1 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | road |
| - | Fri, Apr 09 | - | - Fail - | - | - |
| 2 | Sat, Jan 23 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | brush |
| 1 | Mon, Jan 18 | 3 | Harris Creek Trail | 1 | trees, brush, drainage |
Fri, Dec 03, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek trail. Brushing with electric hedge trimmer at 0.9 miles into the trail. More trash removal from the trail head and fire road.
Wed, Dec 01, 2021, 1 hour
Wed, Dec 01, 2021, 1 hour
Harris Creek road. Removed trash at turnouts along NF-9021 to beautify the experience as you approach the Harris Creek Trail.
Wed, Nov 03, 2021, 5 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Loppers to remove small trees encroaching the trail. I cleared 2 sections, a half mile in and a mile in. Later, I removed so much garbage from the trail head it overflowed the trunk of my car.
Sat, Oct 30, 2021, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work and small trees removal around midway to the Rock Creek crossing. Raked out debris because it was so thick that debris on side would have impacted future brush work.
Fri, Oct 29, 2021, 3 hours
Raging River. Removed 1 medium sized tree overhanging the access road, needing a high cut with a pole saw on 6 foot extension. Cleared around 10 blockages on both upper and lower Return Policy trail.
Wed, Oct 27, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Cleared a bunch of small trees encroaching on the trail. It's a section I brushed earlier, but returned with loppers to finish the small trees.
Thu, Oct 20, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Cleared small trees encroaching on trail at early section.
Sat, Oct 16, 2021, 5 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Made it to the Harris Lake Trail which is severely overgrown with alder trees. Cleared a difficult section that was not passable due to trees growing in the trail itself.
Wed, Oct 13, 2021, 5 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Mostly removing small trees encroaching on the trail using loppers, but also an hour on the hedge trimmers for smaller brush. All work in the area of 1.0 mile from trail head.
Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work in reverse from Harris Creek back towards trail head.
Sat, Oct 09, 2021, 4 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work in reverse from Rock Creek back towards trail head. I cleared around the creek crossing and ditch just above the creek, so that the path is clear once the creek is filled with water from seasonal rains. Brush wasn't as dense as other days, but was thicker stalks, at capacity to what my battery hedge trimmer can handle.
Fri, Oct 08, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work. I got about a tenth of a mile done today in the evening. This makes the trail clear for the first 0.45 miles in very good shape.
Sun, Oct 03, 2021, 3 hours
Sun, Oct 03, 2021, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work around 3/4 mile till the culvert around 1 mile in. Cut some pretty tall heavy brush.
Sat, Oct 02, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work near start till 0.36 miles in, looking good for early section only.
Fri, Oct 01, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail Brush early section of trail for 3/4 hour, then over an hour removing branches and logs from side of trail that were impacting ability to get brush cutter into the thick underbrush.
Sun Sep 26, 2021, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Trash removal from trail head. Mostly broken glass and clay pigeons used for target shooting. This was embedded over large area of the trail head and painstakingly removed even tiny glass fragments.
Sat Sep 25, 2021, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work at beginning of trail with Stihl eKombi borrowed from Jay.
Fri Sep 24, 2021, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Brush work at beginning of trail with Stihl eKombi borrowed from Jay.
Sep 18, 2021, Sat, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Worked on drainage in the rain, then brush clearing. Removed muffler from forest road.
Harris Creek Trail. Sep 08, 2021, Wed, 2 hours
Removed building materials including a water heater from the trail head. Very difficult to get water heater up the hill, attempted to dismantle it till that proved fruitless, eventually pushed it end over end out of the ditch. Huge struggle to get it inside the car. Filled car with more trash picked from the dirt.
Sep 04, 2021, Sat, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Lopping brushes on trail. Removed lot of building materials, glass, and other trash from the trail head
Aug 06, 2021, Friday, 2 hours
Alpine Baldy. Removed 4 trees in area of avalanche debris.
Aug 01, 2021, Sunday, 3 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Removed trash and ash from 3 illegal fire pits
May 30, 2021, Sunday, 4 hours
Harris Creek Trail. I removed trees and branches clogging ditch and causing marshy wet section of trail. Made it out 3 miles but had to turn around due to bear bounding across the trail. The section of trail I worked on was between Rock Creek and Harris Creek.
May 26, 2021, Wednesday, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Cleared trees till intersection with Carter Creek trail. Lot of small branches and debris removed from trail.
May 22, 2021, Saturday, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Cleared to 2nd creek crossing at Harris Creek. Removed 4 small trees and one medium size tree. Picked up 2 more pails of garbage at trail head.
May 21, 2021, Friday, 2 hours
Harris Creek Trail. Picked up 2 pails of garbage, a helmet, and a broken TV. Mostly broken glass in the dirt which is very time consuming to remove tiny glass fragments all over the place.
May 11, 2021, Tuesday, 1 hour
NF-9020. Road work, to break up rock blocking road to trailhead. Follow up on May 18 with Justin's Makita RotoHammer with a drill.
April 09, 2021, Friday, 0 hours
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I headed up the NF-9020 to do trail work, but hit a rock that busted my radiator. Had to get towed out. Cost me $700 out of pocket because State Farm Insurance sucks and called it a collision instead of comprehensive (road hazard).
Jan 23, 2021, Saturday, 3 hours.
Harris Creek Trail. Electric Hedge Trimmer, 2 batteries. I cleared sticker bushes back for the first half mile.
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Clearing Harris Creek Trail. Electric pole saw, 2 batteries. I removed the trees in the ditches and side of the trail that get in the way of drainage work and brush removal, as far as Rock Creek along the Harris Creek Trail. Also took out a number of overhanging trees that may fall on the trail.
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Check the June Lake Snotel for snow levels at Mt St. Helens, typically good to go at Lower Smith when just a foot snow remaining. As of June 14, snow level at 6 inches and melting at 1-2 inches per day, so it's good to go because Lower Smith Creek is lower elevation and melts out quicker. Confirm road access at Ape Canyon TH, this year the road opened on June 07.
