Author Archives: Skagit Trail Builders

Last Friday we walked our newest trail, La-Z-Boy, with a Restoration Ecologist. He’d donated some trees and expressed an interest in our work. Given how wet it has been our group was considering a planting in a few places along our trail corridor. His recommendations were: · The native vegetation looks good, additional planting isContinue reading “Keeping Little Mountain Park healthy and natural”

During our last session gravel was distributed down the service road in order to help make it a little less muddy. The weather was great and the wildflowers were in bloom.

Our plan is to focus on the Service Road, which connects the park access road to the top of the trail Huff-N-Puff, putting in drains and graveling. We’re going to finish up early so we can go to the Big Rock Café & Grocery. This session falls on the day of the Mount Vernon ParksContinue reading “Please join us June 11th for another work session”

This Saturday we will be putting the finishing touches on our La-Z-Boy drainage projects. The third bridge was built last session. Come on out and see it. The Esteps have also said they will be bringing their soup at lunchtime, always a trail builder favorite.

On May 22 13 volunteers turned out in the morning rain to work on Fred’s Trail. As the day progressed they turned an old, eroded, steep, scramble route into a still challenging, safer, more sustainable trail. A strong and skilled group worked on steep and slippery terrain building crib and fill steps, stone steps andContinue reading “May 22 work on Fred’s Trail was a great success”

Sundays are not our normal work party day so we thought we’d send out a reminder about the work party scheduled for this Sunday. It would be great to see you!

We had nice weather and a good turnout of 16 volunteers to help us build a new bridge on La-Z-Boy. We’ve been doing a lot of drainage improvement on La-Z-Boy in our last few sessions. The slot drains seem to be doing a great job of allowing water to pass right through the trail bed.Continue reading “May 14th session”

While we’ve concluded our highline operation, we still have more gravel to move off the road’s edge. We will be using the power carrier and wheelbarrows to move this gravel in on Upper La-Z-Boy and Lower Surfer’s Way. Simultaneously, we’ll be working on a new bridge, which will be built mid-trail on La-Z-Boy. A groupContinue reading “Please join us Saturday May, 14th for another work session”

We’d like to thank all 55 of our volunteers who turned out last Saturday. Fifty-five is our record number of volunteers in one session. This is astounding and we can’t thank you all enough. Once again we were operating the high-line system of ropes, pulleys, and buckets. Using this eliminates a half mile wheelbarrow tripContinue reading “April 23rd work party set a record”