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On a sunny and clear Saturday
morning, on April
10, 2004, volunteers gathered at the end of Santa Teresa Park's Pueblo
Area parking lot near the entrance to the Mine Trail. Trail lead Roy
Ichinaga
explained what needed to be done and handed out the tools and rolls of
chain link fence from the park department's tool trailer. The fence
rolls
would be used to stabilize drains. The volunteers included Friends of
Santa
Teresa Park president Mike Boulland, Vice-President Kitty Monahan, and
secretary Ronald Horii. The crew headed out down the Mine Trail, into
Big
Oak Valley, and up the Rocky Ridge Trail. Along the way, they paused
and
talked about the trails to curious trail users. The lower part of the
Rocky
Ridge Trail is a narrow single-track path that gradually ascends the
hillside.
In the winter, rainwater rushing off the hill turns the trail into a
rain
gutter. In past years, the water would pool up in parts of the trail,
turning
it into a muddy mess. In recent months, trail work by volunteer trail
crews
have improved the drainage considerably. On this day, the trail crew
would
mainly be looking for trouble spots and fixing them. While the Rocky
Ridge
Trail, for the most part, does not run up the real Rocky Ridge, the
ridge
it runs on is very rocky. Weeks of sunny weather dried up the trail,
making
the clay dirt very hard. Working on the trial required some heavy tools
and hard work. One area required making a drain with rocks. Some of the
crew gathered rocks from the hillside, broke them up with a sledge
hammer,
and arranged them to form a drain, using the piece of fence to help
stabilize
it. Other members smoothed out rough spots in the trail or countoured
the
trail to improve drainage. Around noon, the volunteers returned to the
Pueblo Area knowing the work they did would help keep the trail in good
shape for trail users in the future.
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