Gold Creek Trail to Alaska Lake — Wednesday, Jul. 5, 2000

Snoqualmie Region > Snoqualmie Pass

Got off work early and decided to do a little trailwork for the rest of my afternoon. I remembered from last month that Gold Creek needed a couple of trees taken out of it so I loaded-up my axe and saw and headed out. I got to the trailhead at 4:30pm and I was the only one there, which was very nice! I headed straight to the Alpine Lakes Wilderness boundary and started cutting away. I took out the big jackstraw of 4 trees that people have been walking around for a while now. After that was done I headed up the hill to see what other trouble I could get into... I found a big rotten log sitting right in the middle of the trail. I picked at it for a while with my iron rock bar, then cut into thirds with my axe...the hard part was getting the water-soaked pieces off the trail. *Whew!* I checked uptrail and found my next project, three more logs (two with 3ft. diameters) I was out of light so I headed back to the car. Who needs Gold's Gym' I've got Green's GYM! If you-all were wondering how those trails stay so nice and clean, this is it! The One-man Trailcrew Formerly known as The Mountain Man. :)