Despite the predictable afternoon and evening rain showers of the last month or so on Mount Yale HUGE amounts of progress have been made. We are now working at around 13,500 feet or so, only twenty minutes from the summit! Every morning we wake up and hit the trail for two hours before we reach the work site, usually greeting the first hikers of the day an hour or so later. Building walls has become our specialty as we attempt to reinforce the existing trail well enough that it ceases to slide out from under future hikers feet.
We were also able to complete our first piece of restoration after constructing one of several massive switchbacks. This switchback in particular now diverts hikers around a nasty erosion gully that used to be the trail.
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| The whole crew grabbin a bite before work. |
With less than 1,000 feet of trail left to reconstruct before the saddle, Jeff and I said see ya later to our first RMYC Crew. Before their departure we were able to witness a slightly ruthless prank week and an epic last dessert. Hopefully, the next crew will also refer to Yale as Mount Doom as endearingly as the last.
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| Double rainbow bringing in a morning thunderstorm. |
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| Creation of the last dessert. |
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| More dessert makin. |
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| Ariel carrying a rock across some sketchy slope. |
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| Spencer and Ben working on a switchback. |
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