Dear Uwharrie Trail User,


As promised we are rescheduling a workday to clear the Woodrun Trail System of down trees.

Over 30 trees have been reported down on Keyauwee alone.  We are contacting all chainsaw certified volunteers and need others to help move the debris from the trail

Looking for 4-5 chainsaw certified individuals and 15 to 20 volunteers to help spot and move cut trees.

Date: 8/24/13
Start time: 9:00am 
Finish: 2pm

Please bring plenty of water as this type of work will require significant physical effort.

This project is also being supported by the Friends of Uwharrie.  This is a great organization working with all user groups for a common cause.  We are excited to have their support.

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As always thank you for your continued support!

Uwharrie Trails & Conservancy

Please rsvp if you can make this event by either replying to this email or calling me (Brian) at 704-438-5663




 

I'll be there, no chainsaw license but will move stuff.

Doc, how do you transport your chainsaw thru the forest? I have a Bob trailer and it takes a lot of travel time out of the work?
Doug S.

What else do we need (besides more NFS certified cutters)?  Need the quad or other stuff from the trailer? 

Should we tell the FS that we are coming to see if they can add one or more cutters? If we had 3 or more cutters and several workers we might could clear the trail.

4 chain saws - that's great!

Who else can make this trail work day? Let's get a large crew out and get Uwharrie back on line.

That is where I was planning on parking.

Advocat wrote on 08/21/13 at 3:39pm:


I, for one, plan on riding the trails Saturday after working on them. People, look at it as a chance to get a sweet ride in as well as helping out.

I don't think I can make it Saturday. I don't trust this piece of crap Mazda Tribute I  bought from Toyota of North Charlotte to make it there and back. The rear differential is not sounding too good. I've got to get a junkyard differential to fix it before I drive it too far. Besides, I have way too much work to do at LNSP, so I'll work up there. You'll get all the work done and have a good ride!

Doc, I can bring my bob trailer for your chainsaw. Then you, Advocat, DursRemote and I can ride out to the most remote tree and work our way towards the people who are on foot.  I can pull the trailer, on problem. If you want to call me I'll PM my #.
Doug S.

Count me in.  See you out there!!

Sorry I can't make it . I picked up a differential today and I am going to change it in the morning. If it was a Mazda instead of being made by Ford, it wouldn't have been a problem. If I get finished early enough, I'll be heading up to LNSP to do more work. You guys have fun riding and hope you have lots of success with the work.
F- fix
O- or
R- repair
D- daily

Looks like its on for tomorrow.  Meet at the main parking lot at 9 and the forest ranger will be there to meet with us.  Hopefully we get enough help to get the trails clear again.  Feel free to come on out and help.

UWHARRIE is open again. Go ride

First half of white tail is clear. Second half needs another work day.  Had a lot of help today from the "freinds of uwharrie" .   These are people who ride atv's and horses and do not use these trails.  Many thanks to them.  They were a huge help!

Big thanks to Doug, Jim, Greg, Max, Kevin and many more!

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When I was told that there were 40-50 trees down I thought that was an incredible exaggeration. I was very wrong about that. I think we had 21-22 people, 5 of which were sawyers, spread out at 3 location on the trail to try to get them all. It took 6 hours of nonstop work to get the trail cleared. 
Over on White Tail there are between 15-18 trees down on that section. It really is not worth riding down and we only did so we could see how many were down. Like Tom said the top part is fine. The first two trees are down just before the muddy section with the dip in it coming from top to bottom of the trail with the remaining trees on the lower section. Two of the trees have their trunks across the trail and are maybe 30 inches in diameter.
As Tom said we had help from a lot of different user groups including equestrians, jeepers, and hikers. Some of the people have never used this side of the park and never will. But they gave up their Saturday to help get them open.
There is still a fair amount of debris down but the trail is in good shape. There are some weeping areas and the creeks are deep.
Doug S.

Thanks for posting some pics.  That trail took a beating from the storms and it felt great to be able to ride it after a good trail work day.  Many thanks to all the people who showed up and worked to make this possible.