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| no partners | | I have not hiked in the JF/Frog Tanks area since the Woodbury Fire and decided to head out to see how things were shaping up. I had done JF very shortly before the fire, and it was overgrown then, so I took along clippers to make sure I could get through without too much damage from the catclaw and related evils. As anticipated, the fire caused significant damage, but the bushes and shrubs are coming back with a prickly, thorny, ornery vengeance. I spent upwards of 5 hours pruning them back from the trail so I could get by. I'm not proud of the cuts I made, as they fall short of best wilderness practice, and I or someone else will need to head back with loppers to make any sort of lasting improvement.
In any event, I love the JF, especially because you don't need high clearance 4x4 to get to the trailhead, which is in shorter supply now that post-Woodbury flooding knocked out access to the Reavis trailhead.
Because of overgrowth, I only managed as far as the Tank at the intersection of JF and Woodbury trails (great water there). The way back was much faster, but route finding is a problem in some of the grassier sections.
I'm going to have to head back later to see the state of Frog Tanks. I understand from other triplogs that it's been destroyed in a number of places. As prickly and slow as the hiking is, it's a privilege to see life returning to the Supes. |
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