[pct-l] Fwd: Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area closed

[dhstein31 at yahoo.com (Duane Steiner)]

Actually the rerouting outisde of burocrat expense would be very minimal ..... you have a choice to keep it where it is which is burned out desert that is ugly and hot and imposssible to maintain OR reroute the trail to more scenic, more shaded and a lot easier to maintain.  There presently are rarely used dirt roads that could be turned into trails that would involve 4/5 of the route and then the rerouting would be about about a mile from the present trail to the top of PILOT rock and then it would be dirt road the whole way to CAJON summit where you would need a trail of few miles down the elevation.  To pilot rock would be pretty easy to maintain but the cajon down would be steep and through burn areas.  BTW the private/ public land would not be an issue because I believe all this reroute would be on public land or exsisting road structures.
 
Duane 

Judson Brown <judsonb@internetcds.com> wrote:
That might take it out of the area that burned this year, but who's to say
this new route wouldn't burn next year? If we can't afford to maintain the
trail we have, we certainly can't afford to reroute it to a location that
has no discernable advantages. IMHO.

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[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net]On Behalf Of Duane Steiner
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 5:58 PM
To: Bighummel@aol.com
Cc: pct-l@backcountry.net
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Fwd: Silverwood Lake State Recreation Area closed



Not only is the park closed but some of the PCT through the park and most of
the area West of the park will be impassable or very dangerous because of
the Fall wild fires. We day hiked that section just after the XMAS
mudslides and the trail was barely discernable in many of the canyons and
passes and with this weeks rain it will get worse.
I have been assisting the PCTA trail maintenance and they have chosen to
maintain areas in less critical locations ie. crossing deep creek at the
spillway and then just East of Cajon Mt (that will hopefully change when
they do their week long maintenance camp at Mormon Rocks). IMO the trail
needs to be rerouted through Millers Canyon and then up to the Ridge to
Cajon mountain and then down to the McD's. This would keep the trail out of
most of the burn areas, into the timber and up on a ridge where there
presently are dirt roads but would increase the length and elevation gain of
the trail.
As for the closure of the state park I honestly am surprised they have any
staff for enforcement. I drive by there once a week and the signs are up
that it is closed and the mud has not been removed from the entrance but I
never see any rangers patroling.

Duane
Bighummel@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 2/19/2004 4:45:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, info@pcta.org
writes:
I just received a call from a hiker who said the Silverwood Lake State
Recreation Area is closed and that she was hiking the PCT this past weekend
in the
area. A park person approached a hiker in front of her and said they all had
to leave because the park is closed.

I have sent this information to Mike and hopefully we can get more
specifics.

Lorrie
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