EISPIRATEN

This past week I've managed to clear most of the vegetation on the trail to Bailey Canyon Falls. It's a short trail. The tread needs a lot more work which I'll try to get to this week and next. But it's worth the 30 minutes or so to go see the falls which, surprisingly to me, are still flowing well for the middle of July. This isn't a big falls but it's a nice tranquil spot to get away from the heat.

Thanks HikeUp. Everytime I've been there it's a little challenging with all the ruts and overgrowth.

I conned Sean into doing a survey of this route today. We'll see if any of his ideas ever get implemented! lol
Seriously - thanks to Sean for giving me some really good ideas and tips.

Fun times. The trail is finally getting the love it needs. Thanks, HikeUp!

Sean & I added some steps to get up and over a small cascade today (crossing #4). I think Sean broke his back, though, so be nice to him for a change

Before you needed to sort of crawl up and could slip real easily. We figured it was the least user-friendly-safe part of the route.

Before...
Now there are "steps" that make it a class 1 route. Also, the creek has now been re-routed to the camera right, sorta.

After...

I think I'll survive.

Nice job, you two.

A pleasant Sunday morning, so I attempted to improve this creek crossing (#6). Also, playing around with Photoscape X.

Before (L) & After (R) - looking upstream...

Before (L) & After (R) - looking downstream...

I also dug up my picture of the falls from Oct 30, 2011...

Nice work lads. I've never been to the falls. Now I have a reason to go and check it out.

Rerouted a crossing (#5) today. We'll see what mother nature says about it next rainy season.

A poor sequence of pictures (not from same spot and angle).

Before...
After chopping back some vegetation and adding stepping stones to get through the mud...
Not satisfied so after today's work: rerouted to the right, away from the mud...

Another section that we re-routed to get the trail away from the creek bed.

Old trail followed creek bed on left, new trail on right.

Before & After images...

Before...
After...
Let's try a gif...

I see that you cleaned Sean out from the underbrush.

Nice work!

Uncle Rico wrote: ↑Thu Aug 15, 2024 7:35 am I see that you cleaned Sean out from the underbrush.

Nice work!

Yeah, I filled a few holes in the embankment with him.

edit: I wonder if the animals will dig him up?

Two more areas of improvement...

Looking downstream from waterfall view point...

Looking upstream just below final stream crossing before reaching the falls...