CATS Trail Project Reports

CATS at Mariana Butte – The Hidden Hogback Trail again 30 Aug 2018 Yes, back again and with a vengeance to get the crusher fines done and finished. Guess what? We got it done – except for about 30 feet of open trail. What a night! Especially for some of us that just got back from that huge trail adventure down in the Springs (Colorado Springs) on top of Cheyenne Mountain. We are still sore and tired, but yet we threw out crusher fines and hauled them up the trail in wheel barrows and canvas bags. The trail looks different now as it has a yellow glow to it. We hope this is the answer to the muddy issues in the winter time. We laid down about 2-3” base and thicker in some areas to pull up the trail. Also on the east corner coming into the river view, we put in a nice rubble turn to hold the corner in place. All good – but sweaty. Nice work for our dedicated CATS. Tough work and no joking around – this took muscle power to get it done. Heck, Scott f...

CATS – Back at Lake Boedecker #7   23 Aug 2018 Yes, we are back at it again and it was a sunny and windy day and cooled down towards the end. Great bunch of members showed up for this one regardless of the big trek down to Colorado Springs. What I mean is that we had two bunches of members out there tonight and we really enjoyed the company and work. Our regular weekly warriors were there and the trekkers for this weekend both put in some good sweat equity. Golly, I believe we put in the most trail cut in one evening – 440’ of fresh trail. We also made it to the yoke in the trail and now all that is left will be the straight trail over to the bridge at the canal. Catherine earned her hat tonight and is very close to getting her t-shirt (this weekend). Work is the same out here and the grass was a bit easier to pop out. Not true as we get back into the swamp area, the grass chunks are thicker and harder to pull out. Nice to see Denny and Dave ...

CATS at Mariana Butte – The Hidden Hogback Trail again 30 Aug 2018 Yes, back again and with a vengeance to get the crusher fines done and finished. Guess what? We got it done – except for about 30 feet of open trail. What a night! Especially for some of us that just got back from that huge trail adventure down in the Springs (Colorado Springs) on top of Cheyenne Mountain. We are still sore and tired, but yet we threw out crusher fines and hauled them up the trail in wheel barrows and canvas bags. The trail looks different now as it has a yellow glow to it. We hope this is the answer to the muddy issues in the winter time. We laid down about 2-3” base and thicker in some areas to pull up the trail. Also on the east corner coming into the river view, we put in a nice rubble turn to hold the corner in place. All good – but sweaty. Nice work for our dedicated CATS. Tough work and no joking around – this took muscle power to get it done. Heck, Sc...