Stephens State Park Conditions
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Thanks for the intel!
If you could use Trailforks, strava maps are super difficult for me to decipher. No trail names and zoomed in makes things a bit tough.
Teutonic
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I was always using TF until now recently it wasn't working well (free version).
In the XY trail you should notice Hally, and it is right past Golden intersection.
Orange is the steep decent down to the broken gravel road to the ranger station at the Main Park entrance.
The other one is on red/white headed from ranger station towards "3 tier".
I'll give TF another try.
Have the local TF admin person make you a reporter.
Teutonic
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Chainsawer and I were discussing how best to do this. He likes a printout with dots of all the trees down, but also likes to see the size of the tree at each location. Can this be done via TF?
taking a pic and uploading it as a report on TF puts it all together. The photo has the location embedded, so it goes directly onto a zoomable map. There is also a description section.
Then when it is remediated, you can report time directly on that report, and give it the all-clear.
Planning on doing brush back work on the Tilcon Lake Trail next Saturday (8/24/24) if anyone is around to come with. If there's enough of us we can split up and do the Mazes instead, they're not as bad but still plenty of arm scratchers.
mtn
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Due to lack of feedback and preparation, I didn’t do much today. Someone did some cutting of smaller trees. I made the one on pink rideable, but the logs may want to be cut back. And there are a couple clumps on white near the hally toe or whatever. The new clump has had most of the smaller (under 12”) stuff cut, just not moved. And had I not forgotten that my gas saw was on my garage floor, I would’ve cut the larger remaining one. You can still get by underneath it.
The second clump is closer to hally toe and I only cut one out there. Looks like it has been down a while and really isn’t rideable. If anyone feels uncomfortable cutting that, let me know and I’ll make note to cut it whenever I’m back that way. It’s still cutting at chest or shoulder height, regardless of where you cut the tree and therefore a bit unsafe.
mtn
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You all will have to manhandle a couple logs out of the way. I’m not doing that by myself. The dangerous log under on white has been cleared. That was some extremely bad tension and compression and after a few pinched chains, two tanks of fuel, and two chainsaws (ran out of fuel and switched to battery), it was down and somewhat cut.
I talked to the park maintenance crew who were driving back there. Supposedly cutting that lake trail. This was Thursday. NJPM vs VolTM can vastly differ as you know
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Is this available to everyone? Or just users that are enabled as reporters by the admin?
I think so!
How To Submit A Trail Report And A Trail Work Report With The Trailforks App Video - Pinkbike
This short video clip demonstrates how to submit a geo-tagged trail report, and a trail work report, with the Trailforks App when you are out on the trails.
Red Mosquito
Formerly RLB the Scrapple Boy
Excellent. That was going to be a doozy of a job...maze needs some still but it's way more manageable.
I rode around the lake around 10am yesterday. It was still hard to get through due to overgrowth.
Thanks for the Intel, just as I figured and why I said NJPM vs VolTM.
What do these abbreviations stand for?
mtn
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new jersey park maintenance
volunteer trail maintenance
