Slide Repair, Timberline Trail near Bald Mtn, 5/18/2014

[rcPDX]

Pace led yesterday's work party in the sometimes pouring down rain. The section worked is on the Timberline trail, from Bald Mountain heading downhill towards the Muddy Fork Crossing. Five slides were improved for safe hiker passage.

Chris, one of the volunteers, is also a Wilderness Steward so he brought in permits to stock the permit box.

First Slide, very bouldery

Slide 1 before

in process...

After

Second slide very close to first, this one needs another project to repair better but at least it's not as scary a step over now.

Before

After

Third slide, a short sandy bit

Before

After

Fourth slide, a long sandy stretch. Looked really bad from a distance, but there was a faint trail across.

Before

WIP

WIP

Finally, a last slide we just touched up. There's just a boot-wide step-over to get across.

Slide 5 touched up

[retired jerry]

Nice! I love the sequences of pictures.

Seems pretty early to be up there.

[Sean Thomas]

Wow! Thanks for the incredible work.

[Charley]

I couldn't help but think of trombone slide repair when I read the subject. Maybe that's just because I play trombone for a living.

Thanks for all the work! I remember those sections from my Timberline hike last year- they were a little scary. Now they'll be much better.

[mjirving]

Thanks for the great work! Neat to see the progress.

-GoalTech

[aircooled]

Wow - appreciate all the hard work, but given the terrain (before shot below), it's an awfully high maintenance trail. Is rerouting at all possible? Even with the repair, it's still a bit sketchy.

[rcPDX]

Reroute is unlikely. Now that this section has a caretaker, we'll just keep maintaining it.
Roberta
Mt. Hood Chapter PCTA

[retired jerry]

I think it's doable - looks worse in picture

The re-route is to go down Ramona Creek trail and cross Muddy Fork down below