Bavinton Trail Maintenance Report

It's bad.  Mostly pine trees down, but a lot of them.  Lora and I met Dave and his dog Ona, we had our dogs Ripley and Laila with us, at the normal parking area on 5 points road.  We headed out on a long hike, Dave had snowshoes so he had the advantage.  It was a nice day to be out in the woods even if we were struggling with deep snow.

We tried to stand up and brace smaller pine trees that the ice and snow had bent over and frozen the tops to the ground.  A lot of dead pine had been snapped and had to be cut and removed.  As many times as I rode those trails, some times it was hard to find the path because there were so many trees down.  By the end of the day our legs were pretty tired, even the dogs were getting tired.  There were some areas where the snow was still 2 ft deep.  We cut a lot of trees, but only did about 4 miles and you know there are a lot more miles to be done.  The concern is that if the trees don't get cleared from the trails before people start riding that a bunch of go side trails will be made.

Dave talked to the Post Gazzette about the trails.