Fall Strawberry Trail Maintenance Run - Sunday October 14

Brain and Scott are hams who will be there so direct your questions to them but the main group will probably be on one of the MURS channels.  Else yes, we will have a group heading up and coming in the south end.  Leaving the Pollock Pines Shell about 9am so part of the group should be at Schnider Cow Camp Rd past the Caltrans Maintenance Station about 10-10:15AM to air down.  Basically head out from deer valley the normal way or the Lost Lakes way and turn left onto 88.  At Caples lake, turn into the Caltrans Maintenance Station and continue to the trailhead.  Trailhead has the info board we put up a couple years ago and a small parking lot for hikers.

kris_olof said Brain and Scott are hams who will be there so direct your questions to them but the main group will probably be on one of the MURS channels.  Else yes, we will have a group heading up and coming in the south end.  Leaving the Pollock Pines Shell about 9am so part of the group should be at Schnider Cow Camp Rd past the Caltrans Maintenance Station about 10-10:15AM to air down.  Basically head out from deer valley the normal way or the Lost Lakes way and turn left onto 88.  At Caples lake, turn into the Caltrans Maintenance Station and continue to the trailhead.  Trailhead has the info board we put up a couple years ago and a small parking lot for hikers.   

Perfect. That will work then. I will plan on meeting peeps at the south trail head at 10AM! I will coordinate ham repeaters with Brian and Scott 🙂 That way we can talk smack about everyone from opposite ends of the trail and no one will know 😛

Tyler - K6TLR said That way we can talk smack about everyone from opposite ends of the trail and no one will know 😛  

Speaking of talking smack, who brings sandwich stuff to their member initiation BBQ? I want some of that Lockeford sausage I heard about. Lol

Hypergreen Tonka said

Speaking of talking smack, who brings sandwich stuff to their member initiation BBQ? I want some of that Lockeford sausage I heard about. Lol  

Lockeford sausage, what is that?   I've never heard of it? 🤔😎

Ill be bringing brownies........... if they survive the weekend. There might be a few missing by Sunday afternoon.

ScottV - KM6PEI said For the pot luck, I plan on bringing out fixin's for sandwiches since I won't have time to get to my butcher to get sausage.  I'll bring a bunch of different meats, some condiments, and different types of bread.

If I get a chance to get sausage, I will being those as well.  But sandwich fixin's for sure.  

I'll bring a tub of potato salad.

Anyone bringing plates & utensils?

I blew out my back. I'm probably out for this one.

Kathy and I will bring a pasta salad.

Sorry John, ice, heat , chiro has been my recipe for survival. GO D.O.

2DChance said

I'll bring a tub of potato salad.

Anyone bringing plates & utensils?   

I can bring plates and utensils.

70commando said Sorry John, ice, heat , chiro has been my recipe for survival. GO D.O.  

Thanks for the tips, and thanks for the D.O. shout-out.

Unfortunately I won't be able to go to the game tonight, but my wife will still go and root them on.

I'll have a table with me as well, if anyone else can bring one, the more the better.

Shredder said I'll be there as long as my rig isn't in the shop. I'm also a certified lopper operator, so I got that going for me, which is nice.  

Yes, I'm self-quoting. Well, I wasn't able to get my "frame" stiffeners welded on, so I'm going to be a scratch for this run. I know it's an easy trail, but I don't want to make the cracks any worse. Have fun, y'all.

I'll bring a table and drinks.

I have almost a 12 pack of Mountain Dew I will bring.  Need it out of the house so I won’t drink it.  Also I will have my 3 little ones with me so moving rocks is what I will help out with.  I can get my boys to help a little.

Nice Rob, you have help. My entire family bailed when they found out there is work. I'll be there and have what I have for gardening equipment. Not much but I'll have gloves and some muscles.

Jeff, rich and I all made it off the trail and down highway 50!

loni and I got home about 25min ago. Fun day of maintenance.

Made it home safe from the 88 side.  What a view.   I am processing photos now and will post in the gallery and also on the FB page.  It was great to see everyone.  Wish I was more of help kids had my hands full.  Lol.

Robert Gutzman said Made it home safe from the 88 side.  What a view.   I am processing photos now and will post in the gallery and also on the FB page.  It was great to see everyone.  Wish I was more of help kids had my hands full.  Lol.    

It's just nice to see the next generation exposed to our hobby. It will have a lasting impression on them.

We made it home about 630. But it was a beautiful day for our maintenance day. Great food thank to everyone who participated and congrats to our newest member. We moved a lot of rocks so you can say we rocked today lol .

Home by 6:30. Great day moving rocks and enjoying the great weather.

Made it home a little bit before 8.

I gotta say Sprocket is one cool puppy.

Thanks to everyone who made it out on this run. We accomplished a ton of work (special thanks to Dale the whip cracker), met and wheeled with new friends (the land rover guys and the only Toyota on the run), and had some amazing sausage and sandwiches from our newest member Scott.

The trail was the easiest it has probably been since the 1960s when it was actively logged. With the work we put in it is barely a "medium" level trail but should be way better than the highway is was this morning.

V-rock will need its own work day with multiple winches to restore it. Also we will have to wait a couple of winters for the large rocks to find their homes. Come spring we can repeat a similar work day and get much better idea of the final results of the repair work.

I got home around 6pm. It was my first time through the trail without damaging my rear driveshaft. It sure was a beautiful day. Lots of work done, and a great lunch. Congrats Scott.