The Tucson Trail Runners set aside one or two days a year for a Trail Work Day (TWD). As heavy users of trails, this is our opportunity to give back by putting in time to maintain or improve various trails surrounding the Tucson area.
Also, many of our members need to satisify trail work requirements in order to register for some 100 mile races.
For today's TWD, we worked out in the Rincon mountains, on a newly created AZ trail segment - the Quilter trail. This is a beautiful area.
We spotted a pretty unique multi-armed Saguaro cactus. Chris got this great shot.
About 11 TTRs showed up, as well as people from various other agencies. We broke into 3 groups, with each group hauling tools from the trailhead - pulaskis, McLeods, pickaxes and trimmers. Our group went the furthest, about 4 miles from the trailhead.
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| Chain Gang |
We cleared brush, trimmed, built cairns, did some erosion control and a little trail grooming.
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| The Bohemoth Cairn! |
I learned a lot! I primarily run on trails, and it was time to start understanding what went into creating and maintaining them.
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| Old Management-Ross-works while New Management stands around! :) |
We were told that being trail runners gives us a great perspective on placing trail markers, etc.
We'll be running on these trails next week for the first time as a group, so it was exciting to get out there and check it out.
What a fun day. Giving back is so important! Just knowing that some of the things we did will be enjoyed by many people in the future makes me happy!
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
~Nelson Henderson
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