{"id":2701,"date":"2025-07-14T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2025-07-14T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T17:15:46","slug":"sat-7-12-west-ridge-trail-logs-hikers-bridges-oh-my","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/?p=2701","title":{"rendered":"Sat 7\/12 West Ridge Trail; Logs & Hikers & Bridges, Oh My!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Today’s crew was two: Ben and TM Craig.\u00a0We toted pick, shovel, screw gun, and hammer uphill around 0930. We also lugged 2 2x6x8′ KD premium planks. We came to log steps uphill of the flat beyond Firepond Brook\u00a0around 1015. There we recovered logs we left there on our last workday 7\/3, an 8′ and a 6′ peeled fir.\u00a0 They\u00a0replace\u00a0 steps we built there in 1989. Mind, others there we replaced in 2022 and earlier. A wide trail\u00a0 means much woodwork in New England. While we were setting logs, three ascending hikers offered to lug the planks up to the bog bridge. They are Gabriella, Rog, and Ro… They were as good as their word.\u00a0 Thank them all.<\/p>\n

We reached the 1986 bog relo by noon. After lunch we used about half an hour to remove the old rotting 2013 planks and screw down the new ones. The R&R itself took about ten minutes, then we pulled 16d nails from the old planks for recycling and threw the planks into the woods to finish rotting.<\/p>\n

Of special note: the 2013 planks sat on sills 2′ long cut from landscape timbers.\u00a0Being in a bog and wet\u00a0all the time, they were still sound. We turned them over and screwed new planks down with deck screws.<\/p>\n

Our work being done, Ben and his dog Hank hiked to the summit, and I walked down. 2 x 8 hr = 16 hr.<\/p>\n

Next Saturday we are back on this trail, with a great variety of tasks\u00a0 Sat 7\/26 we are elsewhere.<\/p>\n

All the Best,<\/p>\nCraig Sanborn,\u00a0 CHVTC
\nTrailmaster.\n

 <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"New\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tNew logs waitin trail side.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Ben\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tBen peels off a last strip of bark.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Trading\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tTrading old 15-20 YO log for fresh one goes quickly.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Pin\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tPin rocks hold it in place. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Ben\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tBen & safety officer Hank (Toto?) look pleased. \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"Installing\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tInstalling the new planks on the bog bridge.\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"7-12-25\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\"The\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tThe first hikers use the new bridge.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s crew was two: Ben and TM Craig.\u00a0We toted pick, shovel, screw gun, and hammer uphill around 0930. We also lugged 2 2x6x8′ KD premium planks. We came to log steps uphill of the flat beyond Firepond Brook\u00a0around 1015. There we recovered logs we left there on our last workday 7\/3, an 8′ and a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2710,"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-2701","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\/2025\/07\/7-12-25-CardWRdg8a.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701","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=2701"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2718,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2701\/revisions\/2718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cardiganhighlanders.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}