By Mike Rutter, Trails Program Director
November 7: Today we had the usual suspects plus one newbie ride up and work on Wild Turkey trying to bring back some flow and speed while adding some rock features. Big thanks to Will Kelsey, Andrew Kelsay, Dave Thompson, and of course, the incomparable Aaron Bouplon!!
We rounded the corner (finally!) and are now headed up Ponderosa to the Wapiti junction where we’ll start working our way down the jangled, super chunder, fire-impacted Wapiti trail to get it back to the high consequence, rocky chunder fest that made it so baller in the good ol’ days. (JK) 🙂
Wild Turkey 11/7/2023
Now Dave begins the filling of the giant hole created by the tiny little rock that he started digging out.
Wild Turkey 11/7/2023
Andrew Kelsay loves his rock work! Here he is getting started on a rock armoring feature with a little kicker on the left for giggles.
Wild Turkey 11/7/2023
Dave pondering why he rode all the way up there only to spend most of his time digging out a giant boulder, but he got to lay down some sweet rock armoring for the first time!! Will Kelsey is in the back ground trying to narrow the trail back to the semi-original line.
Wild Turkey 11/7/2023
Andrew’s finished product looking up from the downhill side. I think he was proud of this one?! 🙂
November 14: Hey Y’all! We’ve been making progress at Heil, so I thought I’d catch everyone up with a sick vlog! Today we worked on the section of Ponderosa that connects Wapiti to Wild Turkey, so I wanted to show off the work that Aaron Bouplon and Allen James did today.