Locating My Pulaski and Doing Some Trail Work In the Woods

Saturday October 22, 2022 Guerneville CA.

Finding my Pulaski

I needed my Pulaski to do some trail work. I wasn’t sure exactly where I left it, but I remembered I put it under a big tree at the end of a trail I was working on.

I hopped on the quad runner to go find it, but stopped here to do some work on the drainage ditch that goes across the road. Just needed to add some little rocks to control the water when it rains.quad1

 

Then I continued up the road to go find the Pulaski.road2

 

Trail walk

It was a good walk out the trail to find the Pulaski as it was at the end of the trail, about a half a mile or so.trail3

 

The trail goes through here and I’m about half way there.trail4

 

Big tree

I looked around for a big tree when I got near the end of the trail and decided that big one there was likely the one where I stashed the Pulaski the last time I worked on this trail.tree5

 

Pulaski

I found it there under the big tree. Some critter must be living under the tree as there was fresh dirt on the Pulaski.tool6

 

I packed the Pulaski back to the Quad and rode on up to the other spot I need to use the Pulaski to repair a trail.

The forest view on the way to the other spot where I need to do some work.view7

 

Work site

I parked here where I needed to widen the ditch crossing the road here so I can get the quad through this spot and up the old road.quad8

 

Crossing

The rocked crossing is  just too narrow even for a dirt bike so I needed to widen it to get the quad runner through it.rocks9

 

I worked about three hours on this project and it looked pretty good, but when I tried to cross with the quad, it was still a little too narrow, so I’ll have to work on widening it out some more later.trail9

 

Another bad spot

I rode on up past the crossing to this slide that I’ll also have to make a trail through eventually. It looks like a lot of work to me, er, I mean exercise.slike10

 

Break at the spring

After that I headed back down the hill stopping at our spring to get a drink of water and to use one of the chairs to sit and just take a break and enjoy the forest for a bit.spring11

 

Windy day

This small tree wasn’t down on the way up the hill today. It’s been real windy today, but still very pleasant. I got it out of the way so I could pass on by.stick12

 

Bridge work

I stopped here to do some work on the bridge. I’d filled the bucket on the front of the quad with rocks while up in the hills.quad12

 

I brought some rock down to fill up this spot at the end of the bridge.fixit13

 

I installed the rock,  much better.rocked14

 

Nice day.

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Heading Towards Home and Finding a Camp Spot On Marysville Rd.

Friday, Saturday, October 20 and 21 2022  Headed for home near Downieville CA.

Sunup

When I peeked out the van’s side window at sunup, this is what the creek looked like where the beaver had the water dammed up.creek2

 

It was too chilly and early to get up, so back in bed for another hour.

This is the camp spot by Last Chance Creek.camp1

 

It was chilly there so we got on the road earlier than we usually do. This road we took had some serious wash board and give the van’s a good shake up.raod3

 

Most of the trees in this area are dead from a recent forest fire.trees4

 

We dropped down out of the forest into this big meadow area and almost off the washboard and onto pavement.valley5

 

Pavement starts here

The sign said pavement ends here which for us meant the wash board stops and the pavement begins.

We stopped here for a break and to make plans where to look for a camp spot on the way towards home. We’d need to find a camp spot for tonight as we didn’t want to travel home today as it would be a long drive.vans6

 

Big cracks

It turned out the pavement was almost as bad as the washboard as the pavement had these big cracks across the road all the way until we chanced roads.road7

 

Eventually we got on highway 49 which was a good highway with very little traffic on it. We could travel our preferred slower speed and not have a a bunch of cars pushing you down the road.road8

 

Downieville

Marty was getting low on gas for his heater so we stopped to see if he could find any small tanks here. No luck. We’ve moved down in elevation so it should be warmer tonight.downieville

 

We got back on the road and continued on down 49, turning off at Marysville road where we hoped to find a decent camp spot for the night.

Finding a camp spot

We’d just crossed the New Bullard’s Bar Reservoir dam when I saw a spot to pull over to on the side of the road to let a truck pass that had been following us. Since we were stopped I said let’s take a break for a bit and got out our chairs. While sitting there I noticed a small dirt road taking off from this pull over spot and said to Marty,  I need to check out that little road there as it looks promising for a camp spot.

Eventually I got out of my chair and walked down that road and found it good enough for tonight’s camp spot.

We pulled on into the dead-end road and made camp for the night.

Plans

Tomorrow we have four hours or so driving to make it on home.

Nice day.


October 21, Going Home

We woke here this morning and slowly got it going for the day as we only had around 5 hours to drive to get home.camp

 

We stopped here for a break in a wild bird refuge for a much needed break before doing the last leg home.vans

 

Not too far from home traffic came to a complete stop and it was stop and go for a few miles. Turned out they were putting in new guard rails and really screwing up the traffic on a Saturday. There was also a lot of traffic so from now on, no traveling home on a Saturday, only Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Leaving on a Sunday is good as most people are headed for home which opens the way when going from home.

Yucky backed up traffic from road work.cars

 

We made it home ok. I started to unload some of the stuff I needed in the house and then took it easy.

Nice day, Nice trip.

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