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| no partners | | What a great day it was, I formed a group of Volunteers, 11 total after gaining permission from the Forest Service to restore the Grave of David Gowan, I showed up at the trailhead at 7:30 and Kingsnake was already there Very shortly after WilliamnWendi - Wendi showed up, we talked for a few minutes and I told them that I had staged the fencing about 1 mile into the hike near the fallin windmill in Deer Creek. I told them that the owner of the ranch was letting me cross his property so we would only have to hike 2 of the 3 miles carrying the fencing, I proposed that if they would like to hike the whole trail out that they could leave now and that I was going to wait until 8:30 and then drive the rest of the Volunteers to the staging area on the back side of the ranch in my truck, I gave them some light rope to make bundles of the fencing to make it easier to carry,and they headed out. a few minutes later 2 young guys from the Payson area showed up, Jeremy & Chris they also desided to start hiking so they could hike the whole trail in, the 4 hikers meet at the staging area, there was 12 rails so they desided to make bundles of three so the 4 of them would carry three rails each,so all that was left to carry was 6 posts a posthole digger,a hula hoe,a rake and some water, I was still back at that trailhead waiting, Lanae my roomate showed up. then Barb and lady named Kim who had heard it on the radio that morning and desided that that was what she was going to do today showed up, a few minutes later Kari,Patti and Heather got there we waited until 8:30 then headed towards the Staging area, we got to the windmill area loaded the remaining 6 posts between my and Kari's large backpacks the others carried the rest of the supplies, I looked at my watch as we walked down into the Grave area and it was 10:00am we all gathered around I explained what we needed to do, within no time at all everybody just started doing things, removing 2 old burnt post, digging new holes removing all the weeds from the grave, raised the Headstone, gathering rocks from the creek area, it all worked like clock work, I remember going to get a drink of water from my pack I looked back and 2 posts where already up, What a great group of people! Thanks for all your help, We where all finished and gathering up our gear and I looked at my Watch and it was 11:15 Amazing we had done all of this work in 1 hour 15 minutes I brought up the rear on the trip back until we got to the Windmill area where we parted with the 4 guys who hiked out, we loaded into the truck and headed back to the trailhead where the others could pick up their vehicles. I was home by 12:30 at the house, Wow Thanks again everyone!!!  |
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