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Trail Work News From All Over Cuyamaca Peak

Posted by Scott Crellin on Wednesday, April 22, 2015,

Ah, spring has finally sprung in the local mountains, or so we thought on April 8 as Los Tres Kens and Howard "The Guy Who Isn't Named Ken" Wiggins headed up Peak Road to the top of the mountain.  Where we encountered ice on the trees (!) and an very cold breeze.  We quickly shuffled down to the start of the Burnt Pine trail and began clearing brush and various small trees.  Sorry, no pics.
The following Wed, the 15th, the Gang of Four returned again to the upper section of Burnt Pine t...

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4/1 and 4/4

Posted by Scott Crellin on Wednesday, April 8, 2015,
Yes, it was on April 1 when us two fools (me and Ken McIntyre) hit the road early to drive up to the San Mateo Wilderness west of Lake Elsinore.  We'd been asked by the Forest Service to remove a large downed oak on the Bear Canyon trail.  We had a lovely hike in, and began sawing away on the oak using a a 4 foot crosscut saw and a 5 foot two-man saw.  Everything was going swell and we should have foreseen that we would be the recipient of an April fools hoax......
The hoax, in this cas...

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