Bear Mountain Construction – Nov. 9, 2012 – Raccoon’s Lair
Friday was another fine day on the trail with unseasonably warm weather and clear skies. We had four Traildog volunteers who pushed the finishing on the newly dug tread another 850 feet giving us 1/3 of a mile of new trail for the week’s effort.
As we were storing our tool cache at the end of the day we noticed a large hollow log on the North side of the trail. Large, hollow logs are often encountered, except deep back in this log we could see two reddish eyes peering out with the look of a local resident disturbed by the hub-hub of our construction. Our best guess was a small raccoon had made the log its home against the cold weather that is coming our way. We assured it we would be our of the neighborhood after just one more day of work.
We will return to the mountain next Wednesday, November 14th, as this weekend’s rains will have muddied the newly dug trail, making it difficult to complete the finish work. We will again rally at the Crystal Springs Marina at 9:00 am for the barge trip across the bay to the base of the mountain.
Here are a few new photos from the mountain, including pictures of the equipment being used by Progressive Trail Design to cut the new trail for us.
Jerry