More Work on the Trail

April 5th (Sunday)

Today we were eager to head out trail building again.  It was a beautiful sunny morning and although still crisp, it felt a lot more like spring than the last few days.  We headed up along our well-groomed path until it came to the end in the middle of the forest.  Here we started building the trail once again, this time working upwards along a general line towards where we knew the old trail had been.  
Jason was armed once again with his club, and we made a musical racket through the forest as we worked our way forwards. 
When we came to the area where the old trail was marked, it was at a crossing of an old washout, and at this point when we crossed the riverbed we entered a whole different forest.  We went from small trees covered in sticks and twigs from top to bottom, closely spaced, allowing little light down to the forest floor, with old large stumps scattered here and there, into an untouched forest. 
There was no evidence of logging and the trees were large and tall, and there were no branches lower down. Sunlight penetrated the treetops and patches of light illuminated the lush green moss on the forest floor.  It was beautiful!
Jason now left his club behind and we pulled out the long-handled loppers and the hand-held clippers.  We cut across the gully and headed up onto our ridge. 
At the base of the ridge there was a jumble of rocks from a small old rockslide, and we shifted them around to create a stone pathway marked by a rock statue.  
We worked our way up the ridge until about 16:00 when we turned around and made our way back down.  Next time that we are up trail building will be very exciting because we are not far from reaching the furthest point that we have scouted.  At that point we will get to scout on further, and it will be neat to see what lies ahead.  

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