{"id":2258,"date":"2024-07-01T17:06:11","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2258"},"modified":"2024-07-01T17:07:21","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:07:21","slug":"sat-6-29-clrearing-drains-blowdowns-on-mount-sunapee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2258","title":{"rendered":"Sat., 6\/29: Clrearing Drains &amp; Blowdowns on Mount Sunapee"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<p>On Saturday June 29th CHVTC members Josh, Scott, Aurel, and Bob spent 8 hours working on the <strong>Andrew Brook Trail<\/strong>. We cleaned and, in most cases, re-dug 32 drains. The four of us spent about an hour on one particularly large side drain not far from the trail head.<\/p>\n<p>We then worked our way up the trail cleaning drains, clearing major blow downs, and cleared several saplings leaning into the trail all of which were at eye level and a potential hazard to hikers.<\/p>\n<p>In all we cleaned and dug 32 drains, removed 3 major blow downs, removed minor saplings leaning into the trail, and added barricade in 3 sites where side trails were impacting the forest.<\/p>\n<p>We also spent considerable time formulating a plan for some serious rock work and drainage just a short distance uphill of the third brook crossing. Scott, Bob, and Josh are hoping to revisit the site soon for a day of class 2 construction. We hope to address a major problem with drainage and footing at that location.<\/p>\n<p>Around 3 PM the predicted rains began to fall and being about 1 \u00bd miles from the trailhead we decided to call it quits and hike out. It was a very productive day with a lot of good work accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>Bob Humphrey<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0557a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0557a.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"1512\" width=\"1512\" title=\"IMG_0557a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tJosh, Scott &amp; Aurel working on side ditch.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0562a-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0562a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"2560\" title=\"IMG_0562a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tMore ditching work,\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0571a-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0571a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"2560\" title=\"IMG_0571a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tJosh preparing to cut a large blowdown. \n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0574a-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0574a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"2560\" title=\"IMG_0574a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tMaking the cut.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0576a-scaled.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0576a-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"2560\" width=\"2560\" title=\"IMG_0576a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tBlow down removed and trail opened.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0581a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0581a.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"480\" width=\"480\" title=\"IMG_0581a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tJosh making the last cut on another big blowdown.\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0588a.jpg\" target=\"_self\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"noopener\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0588a.jpg\" alt=\"6\/29\/24 Andrew Brk Tr\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"480\" width=\"480\" title=\"IMG_0588a\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tTrail opened back up.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday June 29th CHVTC members Josh, Scott, Aurel, and Bob spent 8 hours working on the Andrew Brook Trail. We cleaned and, in most cases, re-dug 32 drains. The four of us spent about an hour on one particularly large side drain not far from the trail head. We then worked our way up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-work-trip-report"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_0570a-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2258"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258\/revisions\/2271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}