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AZT 24A Red Hills Trail Maintenance, AZ
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| Backpack | 17.50 Miles |
3,500 AEG |
| | Backpack | 17.50 Miles | 4 Days | | |
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| partners | | Held a 4 day backpack AZT trail maintenance event on my section of the AZT. Being the section steward managed to get a group of 12 so plenty of help to get the work done.
Friday morning we started from City Creek Trailhead at 8am and hiked up the 6 miles to the junction with the Red Hills 24A section of AZT. From there camp was about 3/4 mile northbound on the AZT and with all the rain recently we had flowing water at camp in the drainage.
Next morning it was time to get to work. One group headed for Brush Spring about 3.5 miles away to relocate the Brush Spring sign into the correct location. They also significantly improved an existing primitive route from the sign to the spring area clearing brush and tree fall from the path. End result is very wide obvious path to water from the AZT.
The rest of the group brushed the two miles from City Creek AZT junction northbound. Cleared lots of manzanita, scrub oak, gamble oak and some downed trees. We all met back at camp about 330 and called it a day. Fairly pleasant evening with lows in the upper 30's.
On Sunday one group cut several trees with a crosscut saw. One cut in particular was fairly complex with 22 inch diameter tree on a tricky slope. The others were more straight forward but still required crosscut.
Rest of the group continued the 2 miles of brushing and we managed to finish the entire section by end of day on Sunday. Very successfuly weekend on my section of AZT and the trail is in best shape it's ever been! Spent one more night at camp before hiking out on Monday and mexican food in Payson 
Huge thanks to all the volunteers for their time and hard work  |
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