Moody Hill - with snow

[Jim]

A friend, new to trail riding, has been wanting to visit a trail. Moody Hill was the choice. I just didn't expect the snow. We entered from the western trailhead since the eastern trailhead was fully snow covered - the two rock steps would be snow covered. I drove up the eastern trailhead several hundred yards - no tracks in the snow.

In from the west, there was one day-old set of tracks in the snow but they turned around fairly quickly. On the trail, snow depth was 2-3 inches - nothing deep. One side-by-side showed up at the quarry. They said they needed to winch up one of the rock steps. That was the only traffic for the day (aside from people walking in at the east trailhead with saws to cut trees).

[newracer]

We will be closing the gates this Sunday.

[Jim]

Do you want me to tend the large deadfall this Saturday?

(Google Map: 40.561143, -105.387906)

[newracer]

We can get it in the spring.

[Jim]

k.

Deadfall looks to be a decent task for the trail. On the short spur to the right of this tree there were two across-trail trees already down - and I visited that section of trail only a month or two prior. If you need extra hands clearing, holler.

[newracer]

When we open it in the spring we clear, on average, around 20 trees. Some years we have had almost 100. Most are small and are easy to move. Also the FS now does not usually go with us so we can use chainsaws if needed.