Douglas Trail Connector Completed (East Clackamas County)

The Douglas connector trail is completed (with a little help of our friends).

Curtis Smith, crew chief for Trailkeepers of Oregon, took the lead in helping to construct a connector trail from the new Douglas Trailhead constructed in 2012, to Douglas Trail in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Mt. Hood National Forest.  OET Mt. Hood and North Valley, and BCHO Territorial Riders provided help with scouting placement of the new trail, and supplying volunteers.   Curtis recruited college students to cut the path that marked where the new connector was to be built.  McKenzie Jensen, Zigzag Ranger District, worked with an excavator operator to put in the rough tread.  TKO supplied tools, water, a kitchen, and dinner Friday and Saturday night for volunteers. DouglasConnectorTrail Crew

The main volunteer portion of the work took place July 25-27 under sunny skies.  Thirty volunteers from TKO, OET, BCHO and several other organizations showed up to get the entire half-mile of new trail completed in just one weekend.

Douglas Trailhead provides access to Douglas #781, McTyre Ridge #782, Plaza #783 and Eagle Creek #501 trails, all in the Salmon-Huckleberry Wilderness, Mt. Hood National Forest.  Throw in a few more trails and you have a 26 mile loop.  At this time not all of the trails in the loop have been cleared.  BCHO Territorial Riders rode the three miles of Upper Douglas, and then about two miles on Plaza for a fun ride August 2.  There is a very nice viewpoint by a bench just a short distance from Upper Douglas Trail on the McTyre Ridge Trail.

A BIG thank you to volunteers Susie Little and Glen Kendall, Marty and Delores DeVall, Chris Jones, Tim Lagasse, Barb and Dave Adams

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