Re: RC: Tevis Bogs

[Nat & Richard <trailride@foothill.net>]

sshaw@pacbell.net wrote:

> Stepping through the rocks and bogs of the Granite Chief ...
>    ... Clown was stepping over two
> big rocks and into what we both thought was a little puddle of water. We
> couldn't know that it was really an empty post hole of a puddle that
> went down about two feet and was a wide as a shovel....

"Linda B. Merims" wrote:
> I remember the photo essay about a work day to improve a boggy
> part of the Tevis trail.
> 
> I am curious:  was it part of the Granite Chief stretch?  My
> recollection is that it was much closer in to Auburn?

It was the so-called "Black Hole of Calcutta" about a mile or so from the finish
line at Auburn.

> Is it possible to work to improve the Granite Chief stretch of
> trail?  Or is it verboten because this is an officially-designated
> Wilderness area?

USFS is generally quite responsive to fixing safety hazzards and downed wood
along the wilderness trail sections when notified.  I'm cc'ing this to the Tevis
Trail Czar, Chuck Gabri, for his comment/action.

/richard, teviswebguy

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