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Scorpions Trail Crew, Pleasant Hill, OR (2026)

10/03/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Tuesday September 29th – A crew of 4 Scorpions (Sig, Jean, Jeff R. and Mike S) started the clearing some winter ski and snowshoe trails in hopes that we will have a real winter this year. We began at close to Gold Lake CG and hiked the upper and lower Marilyn Lakes trail system. The log load was not too heavy, but it kept us busy until about 11AM. We then changed location to Gold Lake Sno-Park on the other side of FWY 58. After lamenting on the damage done to the Ski Patrol Cabin by vandals, we hiked up CJ Way about a half mile to where a very messy fir fell with limbs scattered all over.

Once we cleared the mess at CJ Way we drove further in on Abernathy Road close to Bechtel Shelter where another large log suspended chest high awaited us. After clearing that log, we drove back on Abernathy Road to the West View Shelter spur trail. We hiked up to the Westview shelter and started bucking logs which were scattered all the way to Odell Overlook. We completed bucking the last log of the day around 3PM and started heading back to the car. There is another half dozen or so logs on the way to Pengra Pass that we will come back to get.

Thanks to the trail scouts and our guide Mike S. this was a very efficient logout. We knew exactly where the logs were and what the best driving and hiking routes were. There were some very good learning logs too. Now let’s hope for a good snow season.

Thursday October 1 – A max sized Wilderness Trail crew of 12 headed back to battle with Black Creek trail #3551 in the Waldo Lake Wilderness Area. This was our 4th trip there this year in our continuing efforts to restore this trail which was heavily damaged in the 2022 Cedar Creek fire. We started at the west TH at the end of road 2421. All the roads in this area are still officially closed so we had to coordinate with the FS to be sure we could safely get in past the road and logging crews.

Once there we formed two XC teams with 5 crew members and the rest of us formed a tread crew. We hiked 1.3 miles in (all up) until we reached the switchback above Lillian Falls. Our forward progress on previous trips was halted on this switchback because every time we returned there were new logs down on the way in plus all the logs on the very steep switchback are large, complex and very time intensive. Today we decided to skip any new logs down on the way in and prioritize getting above the switchback.

The two XC crews got busy on two very difficult logs that took them much of the day to buck up and move off the trail. The tread crew started working just past these two logs. The original tread is mostly gone covered by rocks, limbs and charcoal logs on this steep hillside. We used a pre-fire GPS track to determine and recover the original trail alignment. After some searching, we finally found the point where the trail switches back and heads up towards a ridge and Nettie Creek. There were a number of additional large log tangles we had to work around but foot by foot we gradually restored the tread and continued our way up the trail. There is not much in the way of regrowth in this area other than very obstinate blackberry vines and occasional patches of OR grape and Thimbleberry.

During our lunch break the logging crew called on the radio seeking reinforcements. Three of us went back to help them complete bucking the logs and getting them off the trail, sometimes resulting in a spectacular roll down the steep side slope. By 2:30 the tread crew returned having completed another quarter mile of tread restoration. The logging crews managed to muscle through four more logs and we all headed back down to the cars for a 90-minute drive back.

Thanks to the great work by the crews working here the last two seasons, we now have less than .7 miles of trail to recover before we reach the point we previously worked from the Waldo Lk side. They are a tough .7 miles, but we plan one more amphibious assault from the Waldo Lk side on one more trip from the west 2421 TH to try and connect the dots.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:

Thursday Oct 15th - North Fork Puncheons
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Thursday Oct 22nd - Black Creek Amphibious Assault
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Saturday Oct 24th - Grasshopper Chainsaw logout and brushing
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09/25/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Thursday September 14th – A crew of 12 Scorpions returned to the North Fork trail #3666 to continue work on replacing three failed and very sad looking puncheons. Today’s objective was to start peeling the stringers for puncheon #1, start moving them closer to the puncheon site and start milling cedar deck planks. It’s a 90-minute drive from Pleasant Hill to the worksite. We arrived at about 8:30AM and started sorting out the tools and gear we needed for the day which included a grip hoist, rope pullers, a chainsaw mill and draw knives for peeling bark.

Fortunately, the hike in to the first two puncheons is only 15-20 minutes. Once there most of the crew got busy peeling bark off the cedar logs. We also remeasured the lengths needed for stringers and sleepers and marked the logs for bucking up to the required lengths. One of our boundary conditions for this project is to keep the same footprint of the original puncheons and to minimize any new excavations due to archeological concerns.

Once we bucked up the logs to the lengths we needed, we used the remaining log segments to mill up into deck planks. Using a chain saw mill with chains sharpened for ripping we started milling slabs for planks. Everything we did today was as a slow methodical process. By early afternoon all the logs for stringers and sleepers were peeled and about 4 deck planks were milled. We rigged up the 25ft long stringers with a grip hoist and a rope puller to start moving them toward the first puncheon location several hundred feet down the trail. We cut rollers to place underneath the stringers make them easier to pull. Each crank of the grip hoist and rope puller would get us 1” closer to the puncheon. By about 2:30 we started wrapping up. The stringers are now 25 to 50ft closer to the puncheon. We have along way to go but we will be back soon to continue.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's project:
Thursday October 1 - Black Creek trail XC-logout and post fire tread restortion
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09/19/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Tuesday September 15th – A crew of 3 Scorpions headed up to segment 5 of the North Fork trail #3666. This trail is off of Hwy 19 , the Aufderheide. The trail section between Constitution Grove and Shale ridge has 3 completely dilapidated puncheons. One of them is almost completely on its side, but all are in very rough condition and have been for many years. We received permission to replace all of them using mostly site harvested materials. Today we went hunting for suitable cedars for use as stringers, sleepers and at decking. Although 2 of my crew mates got side tracked by mushroom hunting we did manage to find appropriately sized cedars for the puncheons. Two puncheons’ sites had the cedars fairly close by. The third unfortunately was in a ceder free zone so we had to extend hunt radius, but we did find some.

Next week we will be back with hopefully a bigger crew to peel the cedars of bark, buck them up to the lengths we need and start the slow process of moving these roughly 4T 25ft logs to the worksite…Sig

Thursday September 17th – A crew of 5 Scorpions returned to Lowder Mt trail #3513 in Three Sisters Wilderness Area. They started brushing out the three meadows on the trail that gets completely hidden by Thimbleberry last week. This week they picked up where they left off and completed brushing the meadows. In addition to working the meadows, the crew members wanted to work the whole trail in terms of cutting away encroaching branches and thimbleberry. They got all the way to the main switchback, 2 miles, failing only to complete the last short stretch up to the woods. The trail looks great…Mike S.

Thursday September 17th – Another crew of 5 Scorpions went to Hand Lake trail #3513 in the Mt. Washington Wilderness Area to continue logging out this 6-mile trail that starts on road 242 and ends at Deer Butte trail dropping 1200ft from Hand Lake. On previous trips this season the top section from Hand lake was logged out, with some drainage work done, from Hand Lake to the jct with Scott Mt trail #4345 about 2.3 miles in. About a month ago a crew worked roughly 1-mile of the trail from the north side jct with Deer Butte. Today we would pick up where they left off.

We drove up to the end of FR841 to where we used a bushwhack route through the forest that intersects Deer Butte trail about a quarter of a mile east of the jct with Hand Lake. This bushwhack shortens our hike by about 3-miles. Once at the Hand Lake jct we headed on up the trail for about a mile to where the previous crew stopped logging. This trail was severely burned at high intensity during the 2010 Scott Mt fire that eventually grew to over 3000 acres. The first mile of our hike was through unburned woods. After that we entered the burn zone. Much of it is exposed to full sun with hundreds of ghostly snags and only a few small islands of green until you reach the south fire boundary close to Scott Mt. Fortunately the weather was cool and mostly overcast. We got to enjoy great views of Mt. Washington, Three Finger Jack and Mt. Jefferson.

The logs came upon us fast. With two XC saws going we leap frogged each other up the trail. Most of the logs at this 5000ft plus altitude tend to be on the small side, less than 20” in diameter. Quite a few we were able to move off the trail without cutting using an Al pry bar. By about 2:30 we made it over a mile further up the trail and started heading back. We have 1-mile further to go until we reach Scott Mt trail…Sig

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:

Thursday September 24th - North Fork Puncheon work
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Thursday October 1st - Black Creek trail XC Logout and tread restoration
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09/14/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Thursday September 10th – A crew of 3 Scorpions went to Lowder Mt trail #3329 to brush the meadows that get swallowed up by thick stands of Thimbleberry bushes. They made it through the first meadow before being asked to evacuate due to a “credible threat” made that day to FS personal. Of course, once they hiked back out they were informed that the evac order was lifted. They will give it another try next week.

Saturday September 12th – Another crew of 3 Scorpions went to continue work on the Eugene to Crest trail from Big Bunchgrass TH on road 5883-378. We had previously logged out the last quarter mile of road 378 so we could drive directly to the trail. There had been no active logging on this road this season, so we thought they were done. But 1-mile from the TH we ran into mountains of logs blocking the road. Being a Saturday there was no one working there but heavy equipment and trucks were there. We contemplated aborting the mission but decided to proceed, knowing an extra 2-miles of hiking plus scrambling over a few hundred feet of a log jam would be required. This entire area burned at high intensity during the 2022 Cedar Creek fire and there is no shortage of hazard trees to be harvested.

Our main objective was to get 2-miles west on the trail to brush a thick ceanothus forest that descended about 650 feet down a switch back. On the way in we hung a few Eugene to Crest trail signs, marked the trail with ribbon so it would be easier to follow and did some practice brushing on smaller stands of fire following ceanothus bushes. We climbed roughly 1000ft in 2-miles to 5886ft of elevation before reaching the destination forest. Armed with a few battery powered saws, loppers and hand saws, we started whacking ceanothus bushes that had completely closed off the trail corridor. The stand stretched on continuously for about .4 miles. We hacked away and swamped out our cuttings and finally made it to the end of the switchbacks and forest at about 1PM.

With the primary mission accomplished we decided to hike 1-mile further to reach the point where we stopped working previously from the other direction. Fortunately, this last 1-mile section of trail was free of logs and fire debris. It’s taken two seasons, 30 crew members and 271 crew hours to complete work on this 7.4 mile section of the Eugene to Crest trail from Little Bunchgrass TH to Big Bunchgrass TH. The trail is clear for hiking and though we have done considerable tread work it remains a rugged wilderness style trail. But the post fire views up high are stunning.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:

Tuesday September 15th - North Fork Puncheons - Prep work
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Thursday September 17th - Lowder Mt brushing
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Thursday September 17th - Hand Lake XC-logout
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09/04/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Thursday September 3rd – A crew of 10 Scorpions went to Diamond Peak Wilderness Area to logout roughly 3-miles of the Diamond Peak trail #3699 starting at the south TH on road 2160-380. Of note, on this date in 1964 the Federal Wilderness Act was signed by President Johnson creating 54 protected wilderness areas in the US. At Diamond Peak, over 52,000 acers were included in this original Act. So, it was a fitting day to give some TLC to this trail.

We arrived at the TH after a roughly 2-hour drive and divided into 3 XC-saw teams of 3 each and a 1 person tread crew. It had rained a good amount the day before, so the roads and trail were not dusty. It was brisk 39 degrees when we started, we could see fresh new snow at the summit of Diamond Peak. We marched on up the trail passing several small but beautiful lakes bucking logs, clearing debris and doing some drainage work and tread repair as needed. The three saw teams made quick work of the 30 plus and reached the jct with Rock Pile trail before noon. They continued past Rock Pile too clear 4 more logs identified in our scouting report in the next .6 miles before returning back towards Rock Pile.

We had lunch at the Rock Pile trail jct. Two of our three drivers hiked back the way we came while the rest of us hiked down Rock Pile to the TH. We had cleared Rock Pile earlier this year but wanted to check for new logs and work on the tread and drainage. This trail burned at high intensity on the 208 MF fire of 2024.

Once at the TH our two drivers arrived and shuttled up the third driver to get his truck before we all headed back. Thanks to all on the crew for a very enjoyable, safe and successful day.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:

Thursday September 10th - brushing Lowder Mt
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Saturday September 12th - Eugene to Crest trail from Big Bunchgrass - tread work and brushing
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08/29/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Tuesday August 18th – A crew of 3 Scorpions (Sig, Jeff R. and first time Scorpion Charles N.) headed to Big Bunchgrass which is part of the Eugene to Crest trail system. With a small crew on a very hot day, we decided to focus on clearing the last .2 miles of road so we could drive all the way to the TH and brush the short but steep half mile spur trail that intersects the Eugene to Crest trail at Big Bunchgrass Meadow. There were quite a few large ~30” logs blocking the road. Two of us did some full sun chainsaw work while the third crew member brushed the road with a power brusher and then hoofed up to brush the rugged and steep spur trail with loppers and handsaw. We were done by about noon and headed home. The trail was severely burned in the Cedar Creek Fire so there is no shade. We will be back to work this trail towards Little Bunchgrass on a cooler day. A big thanks to Charles for joining us and we hope to see you on the trail with us again soon.

Thursday August 20th – A crew of 9 Scorpions went to Mt Washington Wilderness Area to logout a 3-plus mile section of Deer Butte trail #3508. We started at the Tenas Lake TH off of road 2649-640. We all hiked up the Benson/Tenas Lk trail until we reached the intersection with Deer Butte. From there we headed north on Deer Butte towards Hand Lake trail bucking up 40 or so logs. We reached “the pond” in about 3.5 miles and had lunch while debating what to do next. The trail was unscouted for the next mile but we were sure there were more logs to buck. After reviewing our maps and trail mileage estimates, 4 of the crew members decided to forge ahead for another mile. They would buck up logs until about 2PM and then continue hiking to a bushwhack route that would take them to the end of road 841. The rest of the crew headed back the way we came to our cars at the Tenas Lk TH. Sig would then put on his forest Uber hat and drive his truck to pick up the other 4 at the end of road 840.

The hardy crew of 4 that ventured on had plenty to do. They reached a small burn area that had many logs deposited across the trail. As planned, they worked until about 2PM and then left the remaining 20 or so logs and started hiking towards the bush whack route to 38. Once they arrived at road 380 their Forest Uber driver was waiting and drove them back to the Tenas TH.

We all enjoyed a beautiful day working on a trail that is mostly unburned and partially shaded for a change. Subsequently the McKenzie District sent a small crew to take another bite out of the logs we left. There are still a few remaining that we will most likely save for next year.

Thursday August 27th - A crew of 8 Scorpions in 4 canoes paddled across Waldo Lake from Shadow Bay to work the Black Creek trail from the east side TH. The east TH intersects the Jim Weaver trail close to the shore of Waldo. This was our 4th trip of the season to Black Creek which was severely burned in the Cedar Creek fire. The previous three trail workdays were all from the west TH on road 2421 (which is still closed to the public). From the west end we made it a very tough 1.7 miles in. We decided to give it a go from the east side.

After we arrived at Shadow Bay on a somewhat foggy morning, we loaded our canoes with 3 big XC saws, Pulaski’s, Al pry bars, a few tread tools and our packs. The lake was very calm in the morning, and we made the roughly half hour, 1.7 mile crossing of Waldo in patchy fog with no problem. We landed the canoes close to Klovdahl Bay, gathered our tools and bushwhacked from the shore a short distance to the TH.

The work started right away with logs, fire debris like burnt limbs, branches and toasted Rhodie bushes. The tread was invisible in spots, and we tried to restore it as best we could working in the fine powdery ash like soil we have unfortunately become accustomed to. But with a very enthusiastic crew of 8 we made good progress. The burn intensity varied considerably on this side of the trail. It was very hot in spots leaving nothing but snags and powdery ash but there were sections of low intensity burns and even some unburnt areas with very welcome shade.

At the 1 mile point we crossed Klovdahl Creek and started descending a section of trail on a very steep side slope with about a half dozen difficult logs across the trail. Most of us spent the rest of the day here reworking the tread and bucking up the complex logs. Two crew members forged ahead and cleared another quarter mile of trail before turning back to rejoin the rest of us to help move some big logs. By 2:30, after exhausting every other log moving technique, we finally stumbled on the right plan and managed to get the last very argumentative log off the trail and started hiking back on a high note.

When we arrived back at the canoes, we were happy to see a clear and relatively calm Waldo. The wind can get strong in the afternoon kicking up good sized waves. There was a breeze but not strong enough to kick up any white caps. The paddle back was great and with no fog we were able to get clear views of South Sister, Broken Top and Mt Bachelor.

Thanks to the canoe captains and crew we had a very successful day and made good progress on restoring Black Creek trail. We made it about 1.3 miles in from the east TH. From the west TH on our previous trips three this year we worked 1.7 miles. That leaves a very tough .8 miles to in the center mostly in a high severity burn area. We will probably try one more amphibious trail workday from Waldo and at least 1 more from the west side.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next weeks project:
Thursday September 3rd - Diamond Peak South XC logout
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08/15/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Saturday August 1st - On Saturday 8/1, five Scorpions, Jeff, Christoph, Doug, and newcomers Etamine and Erica brushed and logged the Quaking Aspen trail. Initial progress was slow as the crew lopped its way through a series of Vine Maple thickets. Past the thickets, we found and cut logs including several recently fallen green logs that took some work. We worked until 2:30, cutting our way through another swampy vine maple thicket, at which point we had cleared about 3.5 miles of the four-mile trail. In the last half mile before the junction with the French Pete trail, we found seven logs which will provide a day's work for a future crew. By 4:00, we arrived at the truck we had staged at the Pat Saddle trailhead.

The last three logs, a 30 incher and two 20 inchers, all green, are at 44.05678, -122.07813….Doug

Monday August 3rd - Well, that was an all-day adventure. On Monday August 3rd, six Scorpions formed two teams and went back to French Pete to continue the logout/brushing and to scout what remains to be done. Team 1 planned to do the 10mi through-hike from Pat Saddle down to the lower trailhead and Team 2 would shuttle Team 1 as well as work the upper part of the trail.

The teams went down French Pete together passing where earlier Scorpion teams had already cleared this season and then scouted down further skipping over about 15 logs as we went. Once we hit the lowest point for Team 2, Steve and Jeff turned around to work those 15 logs up the long slog back to their cars. Team #2 was rewarded for their logout and uphill efforts with a flat tire. Whomp whomp. Team 1 of Garrett, Alex, Maryanne and Brian continued on down the trail cutting out logs and messes until about 2:30pm – 3:00pm at which point we switched from work mode to “hike out and scout” mode. After rejoining the already cleared section, we pushed on for the car. While the tread is in remarkably good shape, it was slow going and we got off the trail to the shuttle car just before 7pm.

Great day on a beautiful trail. We managed to work another 1.25mi further down from the upper trailhead and now have an idea of what work remains. There is still about 1.75mi uncleared with 32 logs. Some are cuts and some are movers but nothing that looks overly complicated – just time consuming. Unfortunately, it is the middle of the trail that is uncleared so it is a long commute from either end to the work area. Next time…Brian R.

Tuesday August 4th – A crew of 3 Scorpions started some prep work to access the north side of Hand Lake trail. We spent the day logging out and brushing FR841 so a future Scorpion crew could safely drive up to where it ends a bushwhack to the north TH and Hand Lake. This cuts about 3-4 miles off of the hike.

There were several large logs blocking the road, shrubby growth in the center of the road and lots of encroaching branches of firs narrowing the corridor. A chain saw and a power brusher got a good work out during the day as we worked our way up the 1 plus mile road. At days end the corridor was nice and open and the roadbed was given a fresh crew cut.

Tuesday August 11th - Brian and Garrett returned to Olallie Trail for one last day trip push. We geared up and started the hike from Pat Saddle TH up to the saddle and then beyond just past the old guard station location and continued logging out from where we left off last month. We were back in the green forest, and there ended up being a fair amount of larger logs to cut out. A few were approaching 20" or so. One put up quite a fight with hidden bind and horizontal cracks, making for an "interesting" cutting experience. We finally finished the problem log and enjoyed a victory lunch, then moved on down the trail. We reached our goal of the jct with Park Trail #3530 and then continued just a short distance beyond, finally turning around roughly 1/5 mile past the jct. We made the long slog back to the car enjoying the great views of the mountains on the way down.

Thank you to all for putting so much hard work on both Olallie Trail and Olallie Mountain Trail. Both trails got totally hammered over the winter and nothing came easy with either trail this season. It isn't much of an understatement to say that virtually every foot was a battle. Great job team!! Lets hope that next year is a bit more forgiving!....Garrett

Thursday August 14th – A crew of 12 went to the Waldo Lake area to work on the South Waldo trail in the wilderness section and poke further up the Mt Ray trail to see what it looked like in the burn zone towards High Divide.

We split into 4 teams of 3 each. Two XC-saw teams started at Shadow Bay and hiked about 2-miles to reach the South Waldo trail. We proceeded up (about 1000ft) the South Waldo trail bucking up about 15 logs on the way to the jct with My Ray trail. Two other crews of 3 started from the Mt Ray TH and hiked a little over 2 miles to the jct of South Waldo and Mt Ray. One tread crew of three started working on the South Waldo putting in about a half dozen drainage structures on a severely eroded section of trail. The remaining crew of three continued on up Mt Ray into the Cedar Creek burn zone which starts about .5 miles further. They bucked up logs until they reached the burn boundary and then entered what looked more like a desert than a forest. No logs survived in this extremely intense burn zone. The trail was mostly invisible, and the ground was like talcum powder. They proceeded another half mile into the burn zone searching for the trail using a GPS track and marking the trail location as best they could for future work.

Friday August 15th - On Friday August 14th, new Scorpions John M and Lisa M joined Brian R to make headway on the Hand Lake trail from the northern intersection with Deer Butte. Utilizing the scout and prep work of earlier teams, we were able to drive to within ¼ mi of the trail junction. Kudos to the team that brushed and logged out the spur road - that looked like a LOT of work. In the forest, the workload was light but once in the burn, there were more logs. John and Lisa caught on quickly and were eager to try using the bar or single cuts where ever possible. We stopped for lunch in the shade before starting work on a 21” green log with quite a bit of top and side bind. The early day enthusiasm was temporarily sapped as they got the opportunity to earn their under-bucking merit badge on the argumentative log. It took a bit of time (and a lot of under bucking) but we got through the log and moved on to easier work. We called it a day at the base of the switchbacks about 1.7mi from the Deer Butte/ Hand Lake junction. We had beautiful skies, good air and even a few clouds for cover. Welcome to the newcomers.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:

Tuesday August 18th- Eugene to Crest post fire tread restoration and brushing
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Thursday August 20th - Deer Butte XC Logout
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08/01/2026

Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries

Saturday July 25th - On Saturday July 25th and small team headed up the unscouted parts of lower French Pete trail. A Scorpions team had logged out the first 1.7mi to the creek in late February (February!). During the intervening time nothing of consequence had fallen between the trailhead and the creek so we made good time. After the first creek crossing, surprisingly, there was also little down between the creek and our high point of last year. We ate lunch about ½ mi shy of last year’s highpoint and kept going. By turnaround time, we had pushed the highpoint up to 4.4mi and by that time it had become very brushy and the logs we were encountering were rotten, embedded and needed persuasion from the bar and Pulaski in order to budge. On the way back we encountered some hikers who had crossed the creek and kept on going giving us the feedback that yes, people do go further than the creek. Great day and hard work. Combined with previous Scorpion efforts, it is starting to feel like 2026 could be the year we get French Pete logged out. Then on to the brushing….

Tuesday July 28th – Three Scorpions joined up with 8 Salamanders to logout Maxwell Butte and Eight Lake trail in Mt Jefferson Wilderness Area. It was beautiful day with at least 80 logs strewn about. A few hiked up to the summit and caught a glimpse of the pyro cumulous cloud rising from the Bench Fire near Madras.

Thursday July 30th - On Thursday July 30th, Alex and Brian took advantage of the waning days of power tool use in the forest to logout Elk creek from the trailhead to the wilderness boundary. The logs came in two groupings: down low and up high on the ridge with nothing in between. We enjoyed lugging the saw up the 1800’ to get the big rotten ones on the ridge and we ran into 8 backpackers as we worked who were interested to hear how they could earn a wilderness permit card by volunteering. After the long hike up and brushing to emphasize the trail up on the ridge, we decided we should beat feet back downhill to the car. It was a good feeling to see so many hikers on the trail and to know we cleared the logs that would have been a pain to crawl over or under.

Thursday July 30th - Yesterday at Hand Lake trail in Mt. Washington Wilderness Area , Camilla and Mike S. worked on the southern section from the road 242 TH. They bucked up a small number of logs and did some much needed tread repair close to the jct with Scott Mt.

We hope to see you on the trail soon.

Next week's projects:
Tuesday August 4th - logout and brushing on FR841 (shortcut to Hand Lake)
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Thursday August 6th - XC Logout South Waldo Trail
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