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April 18-19
It’s no secret that the Arizona Trail folks are a bit (ok, maybe a more than a bit) obsessed with big, heavy, permanent trail facilities. Big, heavy, permanent gates number 28 and 29 went in this week north of Superior near Happy Camp.
The two locations were not accessible by vehicles, and at many hundred pounds each, plus 800 pounds of concrete, plus tools, these installations stretched capacity more than a little. Without the enthusiastic support of FS staff at the Globe Ranger District, this wouldn’t have happened.
Paul “Pablo” Burghard, Globe District Recreation and Trails, and general super hero, arranged for the Globe Fire crew and the Globe Hot Shots to handle the heavy lifting. This worked out well because these guys and gals are in their twenties, and . . . well . . . the ATA volunteers are not.
So ATA delivered the gates and concrete mix to the site Monday morning. The youngsters showed up in fancy vehicles with lots of shiny equipment, the leaders checked the two locations, developed the plan, conducted the safety briefing and made short work of putting the gates, concrete mix and water at each location.
Tuesday morning ATA’s Usual Suspects blew into town before 8:00 and headed out FR 650 to Happy Camp. The biggest challenge was getting the generator up the hills, too bad we didn’t have a few Hot Shots to help. Then digging began and hole number 2 immediately hit a large rock. Thanks yet again to the donors for the jack hammer and generator, this stuff doesn’t happen with hand tools.
The first gate was in by 10:30 and the crew took a quick snack and water break. Temps were rising. Then they hauled the gear and materials to the second location and the process repeated, a little quicker because the location was closer to vehicle access and the digging went better.
By 3:00 everyone met in Superior for lunch, then changed Tom’s tire and headed home.
Thanks to the FS crews!! and to Usual Suspects Joe, Roger, Tom, Bill, David, John and Scott.
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Shawn
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