A&A Adopt-A-Trail Update!

We had the most successful first trail maintenance day EVER! I couldn't have been happier with the turn out, the weather, the participation and the progress! I was literally blown away by how many people showed up and how hard everyone worked!

For our first day we walked up and down the trail, talked about our future plans and how much potential our trail has - which is code for: our trail is kinda ugly... which means: good thing we adopted it!! I also showed everyone our beavers - well at least the trees they have munched down and the problematic poop station... which we'll get to in a later entry.

So the eight of us heathens and the two Clear Creek Squad members who came, got to work. We picked up trash, raked the whole trail - removing leaves, brush and poops off it, cut back evil-invasive blackberries and scotch broom. We forgot to take a before picture... but the after pictures are stunning!

Three of us worked exclusively on cutting back a huge 10'x10' blackberry bramble. It was so old that some of the stems were over an inch thick - making for tough work. But we got a solid 80% of it. Others collected four full grocery bags of trash... people suck...

Our Mascot: Milli!

 

Future plans include - planting some huge trees to hide the view of the freeway. Removing a 30 foot stand of very mature scotch broom. Removing a huge wasp nest. Cutting black another 3 plots of blackberries. And so on, and so forth...