Albert

Funny, as I'm pretty sure I yelled out, "Stop sanitizing the trail!" a few times yesterday. 🙂

If it'll help me go down ledges I might otherwise shy away from, I'd be all for that. 🙂

If that's the case, at least they took them down when they were done! 🙂

Was there an event out there?

I'm also curious about that.

I know an effort is going to be made this week to clear more of the downfall. Do you know if there are more trees down west of Cedar Hollow towards Sawyer Park? I know there's some additional downfall between Crockett and Cedar Breaks. But I haven't seen the entire loop since this happened, so not sure how much additional downfall there is.

Yeah, it was crazy to see so many downed trees, including several rather large ones (at least large for the Austin area!) We had four people, two with chainsaws and two dragging everything off the trail. Worked out pretty well, and I'm surprised we were able to clear as much as we did. Definitely would have been a big pain in the ass to ride through. And we did have a group of about six riders pass us in that area while we were out there! 😄 I think @DesertNomad will make an effort to get any remaining downed trees cleaned up this week. ..Al

Cody, Today a small group cleaned up a large number of fallen trees between Cedar Hollow and Crockett Springs. Crockett was a disaster when we arrived on the scene. We got everything between Cedar Hollow and Crockett, but there are more trees between Crockett and Cedar Breaks. Don't know if there are more downed trees elsewhere. I posted a report here: Photos: ..Al

I've installed a Gallery module for the forum to make it easier for people to upload photos in an organized fashion. Right now there are a few different categories, Bikes, Trails, and Work Days. Plus you can create galleries outside of those subjects in the Member Gallery area. I uploaded a collection of photos from our trail work today at Lake Georgetown. You can view them below: Once you've uploaded photos to an album, you can easily share individual photos from a gallery or the entire collection of photos in a post, as I've done above. Users can also browse the gallery directly to view photos. Enjoy! ..Al

Last week a freak microburst took down a large number of trees at Lake Georgetown between Cedar Breaks and Cedar Hollow. A small group of us went out there today to clear as much as we could. We managed to clear everything between Cedar Hollow and Crockett Springs. Crocket Springs was hit especially hard, many downed trees in a small area. Two very large trees that used to provide shade were uprooted and laying flat on the ground, and that area took the longest to clear. There are still a few trees down between Cedar Breaks and Crockett Springs, but those should get cleaned up this week. Here's a gallery of photos from our work today:

Four of us spent four hours walking between Cedar Hollow and Crockett Springs to remove all the downed trees from the trail. I've never seen such carnage on a relatively short segment of trail like this before! Here's a gallery of photos: There are still a few trees down between Crockett and Cedar Breaks, and hopefully those will get taken care of next week in time for Cody's two-lap Dragonslayer pre-ride. ..Al