East Bank Ross Lake — Wednesday, Jun. 17, 2020

Had other objects in mind today but due to the conditions on trail it took me longer the further I got down the trail. The first 5 miles are very well maintained and had no problem at all. You'll start running into some down tress that are easy to navigate around, above or below. This goes on for 3ish miles before a ranger team cleared 3 miles before Rainbow camp. After that it turns into a mess. I counted 35 trees down in a 10 minute span. This went on for multiple hours. Once I made it to Lighting Creek Camp I decided to turn around because I knew on the way back it be the same and id be tired and may slip and injure myself. I estimate 250 trees are down on the trail and double as much of branches. I maybe removed a dozen or so of them but realized I can't waste energy like that. Hopefully the ranger team is able to make quick work of the trees over the next two weeks.