National Trails Day Event

Our June 6, 1998 National Trails Day event was a great success! Thanks to the sponsorship of the Eugene REI store and the great support of Lane County Parks we were able to build one quarter mile of new trail in four hours. Over 130 volunteers showed up to help and all were very enthusiastic and hard working. The project involved relocating a steep and eroded section of the West Slope Trail #3. Months of planning and preparation paid off and we were able to achieve our goal of opening the new portion of trail and closing off the damaged portion. Our thanks to all the volunteers, REI, Lane County Parks, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum and other supporters that made this project go so well.

Many of our regular FBP trail work parties were devoted to the initial work of preparing for this project. Volunteers cleared vegetation, including alot of poison oak, and hauled quarry rock to the staging area. Survey work to position the trail involved input from LCP staff, botanists, a soil specialist, Mt. Pisgah Arboretum staff, equestrians and the FBP trail committee. Lane County staff hauled 40 cubic yards of gravel to the staging area with a front-end loader. Without all of this assistance and hard work the project couldn't have gone as well as it did.

We still have more to do, both to complete the work on Trail #3 and on the other trails in the HBRA. If you'd like to help contact Trails Committee co-chairs: Kevin and Pam McGraw, 485-3986, email k_mcgraw@efn.org

Photo Tour of NTD '98 at HBRA

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