Sunday, July 7, 2013

Babel Tower July 7

Date of work: 7/7/2013
Number of workers: 1 Jim d
time spent 8 hours( includes commute)
work accomplished: was planning to clip lower Babel.  When I got there upper Babel was a creek, so I took my time and built one waterbar when it got just ridiculously deep.  Worked on some other water features.

Where the wet spring crosses the trail 3 or four waterbars were needed.  I feel good that I was able to get most of the water off the trail quicker.  There are so many little springs with it being so wet.

I finally got to where clipping had ended two weeks ago, and the waterbar was doing its job.  This is in the upper ditch area.  I spent the rest of my time clipping the ditch and building cleaning waterfeatures that were in that section.

One of the little springs I noticed was coming out in the trail in one of the deeper sections, so I clear cut the downhill side berm filling the clippings in the deep part.  The trail goes down the berm for about 20' then back into the existing part, at the bottom I created another waterbar- first opportunity to help keep the water from going further down the trail.  It needs some tread work I was losing steam by this point.  I clipped further down, I'm close to the bottom of the ditch.

I walked out.  No rain on me while in the woods, some on the way up and on the way home, it was a good day in the woods.