I spent the day sewing trail patches on my straw cowboy hat. And I repaired a tear in one of my pair of jeans and put a replacement button on another. Right now, the weather report for tomorrow (Monday 04/20/2020) is showing 5 hours of favorable skies for geo photo cataloging the Road Fork Section, Points 26 - 25 (07/2011 BTA map) round trip. It's not as far as I'd like to go, but I can't just stop in the middle of a segment. They have to be photographed whole. But Wednesday is looking like I'll get another 5 hours, but on the Whipple Section? Points 03-W to 05 (10/2010 BTA map) have priority there. I need to see it anyways because I have yet to give it an unofficial, but special segment name.
The purpose of the catalog right now is volunteer procurement. As far as getting new trail adopters, group activities are suspended until further notice. We can get new trail adopters (our primary volunteer maintenance crew), but can't give them the necessary in-person indoctrination until COVID-19 restrictions are relaxed. To sum it up, we can still get them on the record, but not working yet. Anyways, we need those photos for an Adventurer's Project volunteer procurement/ trail promotion campaign that should be had sometime after the COVID-19 restrictions are lifted to a more favorable point.
I didn't jump on the bandwagon and advocate the use of the trail in our region because I thought it would precipitate a public health problem. When cataloged Whipple 06 - 05, it was it's usual, tranquil self out there. The nearest person was 150 yards away from me and they were across a river on a dirt bike.
Our photos for Road Fork 27 - 29 are done and that accounts for the popular Archer's Fork Loop concurrency where I think people are going to be? I've got a good lead on an adopter for Whipple 01 - 02.
New adopters or not, I want to upgrade all of Whipple's off-road blazes myself. It's just to get them up to the Maintenance Guide's recommended standards.
We have permission to move as many North Country Trail NFS tack on markers as needed to our road intersections. They're needed at the intersections because they're shapes and color are what's on NFS's maps. If they see the shapes at the intersections, then Buckeye's blazes can take over from there.
Showing posts with label blazing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blazing. Show all posts
2020/04/19
2017/07/13
Blazing - 50 Yard Pace Count
I did a pace count in advance of reblazing the Duck Creek area on the Whipple Section - Buckeye Trail/ North Country Temporary Connector. It's something I leaned in the Army where you count every left step out to 50 meters. You do it 3 times and average the count, than that's what you use. I also understand that this is a Boy Scout method.
Because of conditions on-road, the blazing count will be mostly 50yds. Well, the stadium at Marietta College with a synthetic turf field and lines that are always painted isn't always open to the public. But it's practice field had yard marker signs attached to its fence. So, I did my pace count on the other side and it worked out well. With a 36in inseam (I'm 6ft 6in) I have a 50yd pace count of 27. And shorter folks will be more. But it's just an off-road measurement for blazes.
Sometimes, you could find yourself maintaining a new segment where the blazes are badly faded, or they weren't done right to begin with. In this situation, an "initial" blazing has to be done. It's "initial" as if it was getting it for the first time.
2016/09/03
Log 2016090302
Buckeye Trail maps aren't just that, it's a combination document with a guide, too. There was trouble recently with a hiker using just the map for the Cuyahoga Valley National Park. And I'm sure somebody told them that they could get away with using that. But every once in a while, the guide has to clairify the trail's route in ways that the map can't display when it can't have blazes as per regulation. I apologize for being vague, but it has it's moments.
On the Buckeye Trail, blazes are forbidden on the Little Miami State Scenic Trail, as well as parts of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, one of the smaller off-road segments that are S of the City of Defiance and perhaps a few more areas. If blazes are found on one of these, it could be because the property is owned by another agency (like a land conservancy)? Or they were left over from when Buckeye was permitted to pass through there, but something like a towpath wasn't formally build there yet. For instance, the Buckeye Trail was permitted to pass on the land where the Little Miami State Scenic Trail is today before the paved multi-use trail was built there.
On the Buckeye Trail, blazes are forbidden on the Little Miami State Scenic Trail, as well as parts of the Ohio & Erie Canal Towpath Trail, one of the smaller off-road segments that are S of the City of Defiance and perhaps a few more areas. If blazes are found on one of these, it could be because the property is owned by another agency (like a land conservancy)? Or they were left over from when Buckeye was permitted to pass through there, but something like a towpath wasn't formally build there yet. For instance, the Buckeye Trail was permitted to pass on the land where the Little Miami State Scenic Trail is today before the paved multi-use trail was built there.
2013/10/11
Log 2013101101
I was clearing obstructions from the middle segment today. There was a multi tree clutter that brought down nearby vines. Because the canal cooridoor is so narrow with the canal on one side and the massive Six Mile Creek on the other, both very nearby, it was difficult to tell where to throw the clutter. I was concerned that much more of this might eventually dam the canal.
I'm pleased with my progress today. My neighbor maintainter on the Delphos was able to come by on his bicycle and talk to me when I was working. If my southern portion had an obstructions, he wouldn't have been able to do that. Also, I've been running my wheel barrel from the middle to the southern portion with wood cut from my obstructions. I'd like to build upto a cord at the southern appature so I could have something to blaze on. Right now, theirs too much high water plants and low growth around to the point that entry into the southern appature isn't entirely perfect and is inefficent to the hiker. By inefficency, I mean that they would have to reduce speed and wonder. I on the other hand want there to no mistake from 50yrds+ at 20/20 vision in the dark with a 75 lumen head lamp.
We have a lot of trash built up over the decades. The canal cooridoor has been used to dump. I passed the suggestion on to Troop 75 during their meeting when I did a presentation that this could be a good project for them. But there is some concern about what to do about used tires, which this segment has an ample supply of. Apparently, I've heard that they're their difficult to get of.
Normal trailside camping regulations sitipulate that a campsite cannot be occupied longer than 48 hours. My time runs up sometime tomorrow, so, I plan on moving down to the Six Mile Creek Trailhead about 0.3mi N of my present position next. I mentioned that it was unsuitable before, but I took another look at the sign there and found that I was incorrect about the night time legal impassability. The trail and trailhead are passable for my purposes now. And I'll get another 48hrs out of it.
I'm pleased with my progress today. My neighbor maintainter on the Delphos was able to come by on his bicycle and talk to me when I was working. If my southern portion had an obstructions, he wouldn't have been able to do that. Also, I've been running my wheel barrel from the middle to the southern portion with wood cut from my obstructions. I'd like to build upto a cord at the southern appature so I could have something to blaze on. Right now, theirs too much high water plants and low growth around to the point that entry into the southern appature isn't entirely perfect and is inefficent to the hiker. By inefficency, I mean that they would have to reduce speed and wonder. I on the other hand want there to no mistake from 50yrds+ at 20/20 vision in the dark with a 75 lumen head lamp.
We have a lot of trash built up over the decades. The canal cooridoor has been used to dump. I passed the suggestion on to Troop 75 during their meeting when I did a presentation that this could be a good project for them. But there is some concern about what to do about used tires, which this segment has an ample supply of. Apparently, I've heard that they're their difficult to get of.
Normal trailside camping regulations sitipulate that a campsite cannot be occupied longer than 48 hours. My time runs up sometime tomorrow, so, I plan on moving down to the Six Mile Creek Trailhead about 0.3mi N of my present position next. I mentioned that it was unsuitable before, but I took another look at the sign there and found that I was incorrect about the night time legal impassability. The trail and trailhead are passable for my purposes now. And I'll get another 48hrs out of it.
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