Walls, walls and more walls...

Jim and Angela on a back wall.

August 18th marked the first day of the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps' fall session. After not having heard from our lonely returner prior to the beginning of the hitch Jeff and I were pleasantly surprised to find the crew, tools in hand, up at our work site.  Most of the crew spent a good part of the summer with a saw in hand but all seem to have quickly acclimated to their new working conditions. 

Jake up at the work site.

It's almost time to officially open the re-routed portion of the trail, so a few members of the crew built a solid eleven step stair case leading into the new section.  The rest of us continued with the never ending pattern that is back walls, mono walls and switchbacks. 

Jake and Rob setting the key stone for a switch back.

After nine days of work Jeff and I were able to become fairly well acquainted with the ins and outs, literally, of the new crew and are excited to work with them for the next few weeks. 

The crew constructing an entirely new, short section, of trail meant to detour around a piece of eroded trail.