Hazardous Log Crossing at L&C

Folks,

One of our Trail Leaders reports that the big log crossing at the bottom of the hill at L&C is in a dangerous condition.

The logs are missing or messed up on the far side of the big log crossing so you won't see it till your commited to going over. He rates it very very difficult to dangerous.

L&C Trail Leader has been informed.

Please exercise caution when approaching and crossing this obstacle until it is investigated and remedied. Look before you leap.

2008 THOR Membership Drive

If you haven't had the opportunity to renew your THOR membership or signup as a new member, stop by the THOR booth at the Psycowpath race at Swanson Park this Saturday! Memberships are $20 for individual, $30 family.

We've got some cool new T-shirts available - get one for only $5 with your paid membership through the month of May.
For those who have already renewed membership, this offer is retroactive ... stop by this Saturday or at any Psycowpath event during the month of May to get your shirt!

tranquility tread work

Doug's been putting in a lot of 3-4 hour days smoothing and widening tread. Chris shaped a bermed corner along the big dirt pile north of the tennis courts and other tread work. Will try to remember to get pics of their work. I widened the narrow, grooved sections north of the west entrance to the evergreens; saw where the water was running off the tread and put in nicks and small grade reversals.





Also cleaned out several drainages so the low areas dry out more quickly after a rain.

Manawa Update

Manawa is in good shape - just a couple of wet/soft spots.

There are the 3 dead falls that Martin reported on Tuesday. This afternoon, I also found that the large tree crossing on Riverfront Real Estate has been damaged. Might have been mushroom hunters. As you can see from the photo, needs some rebuilding.

In between of my 2 laps, someone had piled several logs over of the trail in Fast Track. It looks (again) that it was done for hunting mushrooms. Looked like with some malice since the logs were moved and stacked right over the trail.

Swanson Trail Day for 26 April Off.

The Swanson Trail day for this Saturday (26 April) is off the calendar.

A tremendous out pouring of volunteer effort for the last couple weeks has fixed up most of the long winter damage and rerouted several sections that just aren't drying out anytime soon. Most of this just couldn't wait and folks were available for impromtu trail work, big thanks to all of them and their efforts.

Last weekend was huge for THOR supported MTB trails. Crews spent both Saturday and Sunday clearing out fallen trees and fixing up the trails at Platte River State Park. Most of the fallen logs were removed from L&C. And of course a big crew at Swanson.

A tremendous amount of work has gone into Tranquillity Park last week with many of the new corners adjusted for better flow and Doug benching in the new trail near the pine trees. Jewell has a new bridge and been cleaned up a bunch too.

We are estimating the next Swanson maintenance for sometime in June to start trimming up the eye poker sticks that will grow into the trail as Summer approaches and also some sections will probably need some weed wacking to keep the trails from overgrowing.

There is a non-THOR clean up event at Manawa trails on Saturday if you so inclined.

Manawa Update (22 April 08)

Manawa trails are rideable, couple tacky spots here and there.

There are three trees down and the Trail Leader has a plan to take them out.

1st is on the warm up loop shortly after you go thru the drainage ditch.

2nd is right after you come out of Tony's play ground and make a right and do the Long's Landing loop (side towards power plant)

3rd is located just before you enter No Second Chance.

Have fun crossing the water obstacle in the run off ditch on your way out going thru the grass field area. Hit it fast and make a big splash.

Volunteers needed!

This is a big THOR weekend!

Jesse has plans for trail work on Saturday at Platte and signage on Sunday. Please go out there and help him. If you plan on staying in Omaha on Sunday and still have some energy, come over and help me at Lewis and Clark.

There are 10 down/dead trees that need to be removed, trash needs to be picked up and reroutes need to be looked at (flagged), in that order. I will be going over there at 8am if anyone wants to join me that early that's great. Otherwise come over at 11am and lend a hand, I will either be in the parking lot at 11am or you can listen for the chainsaw and come find me.

Here's our biggest fish that needs to be fried, thanks for helping with scale Martin and Pepper. This is on both south and north bound trails, its a big one.

I will bring a chain saw and some other supplies but if you can come over and have a saw let me know. I can use as much help as I can get.

Khamail will have trash bags and will be picking up trash. She has also offered to make cookies.

Email me to let me know if you can make with or without a saw.

LewisClark@TrailsHaveOurRespect.org

Thank you!