05/29/2026
Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries
Tuesday May 26th– A crew of 7 Scorpions headed to Umpqua National Forest to logout two trails, Martin Sharps #1416 and Bohemia trail #1407. Some large 36-40” logs were on both trails along with quite a few smaller logs. Fortunately, all were less than 1-mile in.
We split into 2-saw teams with and started work on the trails with saws ranging in bar length from 24” to 40”. Fortunately, most of the logs did not put up much of an argument and both teams completed work in the early afternoon.
Thursday May 28th - Brian, Matthew, Alex, and Garrett headed up to the Crossing Way TH to finish off crosscut logout on McBee Trail (to the jct with Elk Creek Trail). They arrived to cloudy skies with a tease of sun. Before starting the longer hike to where the McKenzie Trail Crew left off work, they spent a good 20 minutes brushing out the short section of trail that crosses the brushy meadow right at the TH. Afterwards, they dropped off the loppers back at the car, grabbed the crosscut saws, and headed up the trail.
After a long hike, they finally reached the start of the dozen of so logs that needed to be cut. The rain started at about that time too. They leapfrogged down the trail, cutting as they went. Thankfully, the rain mostly let up for lunch, then returned for a mild mist/drizzle. They reached the last reported log tangle before the Elk Creek Trail jct and finished up in a short tease of sun. They even had time to cut out a difficult hanging log that might have required horse packers to duck as they went under it.
Started the long slog back to the car, finally reaching it after a 10+ mile hike. The trail is now clear all the way to Elk Creek Trail jct, a great accomplishment! Thanks to all for making the long hike in the wet to get the last few logs cut out!!!....Garrett
Thursday May 28th – A crew of 8 Scorpions headed back to work on the Middle Fork trail #3609 in the Emigrant Fire scar. Our mission was to complete the logout and tread repair starting 1-mile upstream from Chuckle Springs. Last time we stopped work about .3 miles away from the end of the burn zone leaving 3 large 26-32” logs left and of course the usual fire debris and tread damage.
We all hiked in about a mile under cloudy skies until we reached the first log. A team of 3 remained to start bucking up the remainder of the large logs while the others went ahead with tread tools and several Katana-500’s to repair tread damage and buck up the remaining smaller logs.
By early afternoon the tread crew returned after completing work on another mile of trail turning around just upstream form Beaver Creek. They found the saw creek in the process of bucking the last of the large logs and helped roll a roughly 700lb round off the trail.
We have now completed logging out from Indigo Springs to Beaver Creek. Tread has been restored from Chuckles Springs to Beaver Creek. We still need to work a very difficult section downstream from Indigo Springs and repair badly damaged tread between Indigo Springs and Chuckle Springs.
We hope to see you on the trail soon.
Next week's projects:
Tuesday June 2nd - Middle Fork trail chainsaw logout
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Tuesday June 2nd - Olallie trail XC-Logout
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