Stephens State Park Conditions

Beautiful conditions this morning… Just this one too big for my pull hand chainsaw… White trail coming down to Tally Ho intersection.
 

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Tuetonic and I cleared all of the known targets today. Middle maze.. Estus hood. Border trail.. the Greenway and Waterloo South trail (other side of Waterloo road).. as always thanks to tuetonic for the help and Intel.

We didn't know about the one reported above on white in time to do anything about it..Unfortunately, I won't have any cut opportunities until middle of April. Vacation brings me out of town... If somebody could get to that one I'd appreciate it!! Very easy from the Saxton falls access.
 
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chainsawer said:
Tuetonic and I cleared all of the known targets today. Middle maze.. Estus hood. Border trail.. the Greenway and Waterloo South trail (other side of Waterloo road).. as always thanks to tuetonic for the help and Intel.

We didn't know about the one reported above on white.. white. Unfortunately, I won't have any cut opportunities until middle of April. Vacation brings me out of town... If somebody could get to that one I'd appreciate it!! Very easy from the Saxton falls access.
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I got to get a feel for riding my analog down part of a very chunky and leafy Green (DP down to Waterloo) with Chainsawer's heavy pack on, and of course my dropper cable malfunctioned so my seat was up. That's a lot for him to do ebike or not! I give him a lot of credit for trucking all that weight around on all these TM missions. I'll update all posts above as **CLEARED**.
 
Superfly100guy said:
Hate to report another tree down on Hally Toe. It's halfway up the mountain crossing 2 parts of the trail.
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Thanks. It was windy last night so I'm not surprised. Typical of blowdowns there. They not only cross the trail in a few spots, but sometimes, they'll block both trails. I'm finding the best approach to clearing anything there is to complete the loop to be sure everything's clear. (Up Hally, down tally)
 
Sorry I put those up quick
These are South side of the park
2 pics together are both on the plunge
The Hailey tow crosses the trail twice and tally as well.
 
I cleared the one on White near the Tally Ho exit. And I also cleared the singular tree that blocked Hally Toe twice and Tally Ho once. That's a bit of a hot spot right there. That one fell right on recent work. And from the looks of it, I'll be back to clear the few others nearby that seemed to be of the same make and model. Since the intel was only about that one offending tree, I didn't complete the Hally>Tally loop. Hopefully I didn't leave something behind.

I also didn't get to the targets near the ranger station. Save that for another day.

My next cutting opportunity will be mid-April. I mean it this time. Lol
 
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Today Bill and I went out for ride, not with the intention of doing a bunch of TM, but we did take care of about 1/2 dozen trees with the hand chain and strategic moving, pivoting, sliding.---The tree in the picture below we did with one cut! Plunge is clear.--We got all the ones in Matt's post #1,409 above except for the 1st one on Red.
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A new tree down on Blue Rock that is IMPASSIBLE! It's a mess and I suggest a group tackle it. It's at least 6 ft deep and thick.
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jdog said:
At this rate there can’t be many ash trees left standing??
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Very true. Unfortunately the next to come down are Oak trees.

In New Jersey, oak trees face threats from diseases like oak wilt, bacterial leaf scorch, and anthracnose.
 
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