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Newsletter of the Issaquah Alps Trails Cii. ALPINER January• February• March 2004 Newsletter of the Issaquah Alps Trails CIi. ALPINER January• February• March 2004 TRAILWORK - A CALL TO ACTION! by Scott Semans The wind storm of December 4 has caused massive at least two yards away from the edge of the trail, damage to trails on Tiger and Squak mountains, behind the first row of vegetation. Kicking or and some damage on Cougar as well. We will be piling sticks and logs at the edge of the trail is fielding emergency work crews every Saturday little or no help. Trailworkers must later remove morning (9 a.m., Trails Center, Issaquah) through this pileup. "Cut and drop" wood looks unnatural, the end of January, at least. Please come out if retains water, fouls power equipment used to trim you can. No special skills or tools are needed, spring growth, and encourages trail -invading and branch-dragging is something even the kids plants such as nettles and blackberries to take root. - i can do. As for our regular, ongoing work, this past year It was disappointing to have a zero turnout to our we've been upgrading two great trails on Cougar regular monthly work party on the 7th following Mountain: Licorice Fern, a beautiful creek trail at the storm, though I am sure many of our members the south end of the park, and Bear Ridge, the trail are still cleaning up their own yards. This past closest to Issaquah and the easiest bottom-to-peak year has been an experiment to see if the club can hike on Cougar. Both are near completion and in survive without dues, and financially, we seem to shape for even the novice hiker. be making it. But have we still got the volunteer spirit that got Harvey Manning and many others Licorice Fernhas been the Club's biggest out building trails in the 1970s and 80s? challenge in recent years. Built by IATC in the 1980s along a creek valley in the slowly Repairing the damage is notjust a matter of sawing developing Licorice Fern neighborhood, it has fallen trees and dragging limbs off the trail, though taken some inventive structure work to stay on there is plenty of that. Many trees rooted next to the original 1.2 mi. route, which handily avoids trails have fallen, leaving large craters, and house views most of the way and has the feel of a structures such as retaining curbs and steps have deep woods trail. We did some rescue work on it taken hits. These should all be fixed before winter in 1999, but since February 2001 it has been the and spring rains cause erosion damage. focus of our monthly work parties. The county built nice little bridges at either end, and IATC When out hiking, tossing windfall sticks and limbs recently oversaw an Eagle Scout project off the trail is: a simple way to help. Carrying a converting a fallen cedar into a third bridge. With is folding saw to delimb large branches for easier removal is extra points! Try to scatter fallen wood continued on page 3 The Apparatus I S Club Founder Harvey Manning Whenever possible, please President use e-mail to contact any Steven Drew 392-4432 [email protected] member listed below. Vice President, Advocacy Ken Konigsmark 222-4839 . [email protected] Treasurer Frank Gilliland 603-0454 [email protected] Secretary Beth Moursund 644-4137 . [email protected] The A/píner is published in Board of Directors January, April, July, and October. Steven Drew . 392-4432 . [email protected] Frank Gilliland 603-0454 [email protected] lssaquah Alps Trails Club Kitty Gross• 641-4393 . [email protected] P0 Box 351, lssaquah, WA 9027 Harry Morgan . 432-3249 . [email protected] Website: www.issaquahalps.org Ken Konigsmark . 957-5094 . [email protected] David Langrock 313-1971 . [email protected] IATC subsists on member donations Doug Simpson 392-6660 [email protected] only. Please send your tax-deductible Scott Semans 369-1725 . [email protected] contributions to the address above to Fred Zeitler 882-3435 . [email protected] help sustain our efforts to preserve, Hikes Coordinator protect, and promote the lssaquah Fred Zeitler 882-3435 . [email protected] Alps and local environment. Women Walks Hikes Coordinator 40 Kitty Gross 641-4393 . [email protected] Articles are welcome, preferably Membership Records via e-mail to: Frank Gilliland 603-0454 . [email protected] [email protected] Book Sales/Distribution Send diskette or hard copy to post Scott Semans . 369-1725 [email protected] office box number above. Webmaster David Langrock 313-1971 . [email protected] Issue deadlines: November 21 for The Alpiner January; February 21 for April; May21 Nancy Wagner 415-6427 . [email protected] for July; August 21 for October. Advocates Cougar Mountain: Charles McCrone 392-3466 . [email protected] Issaquah/Squak Mountain: Steven Drew 392-4432 . [email protected] Tiger Mountain: Larry Hanson . 392-2458 . [email protected] Grand Ridge: Melinda Livingstone 392-7455 . [email protected] Raging RiverIPreston: Maryanne Tagney Jones P2227615 . [email protected] Rattlesnake Mountain/Taylor Mountain: Ralph OwenS 746-1070 Chief Ranger/Trail Maintenance Crew Chief Bill Longwell . 222-6775 [email protected] - Volunteer Trail Maintenance Coordinator Scott Semans . 369-1725 . [email protected] Mountains To Sound Greenway Note: All telephone Ted Thomsen . 454-8643 numbers are area code 425 unless otherwise noted. continued from page 1 a formal garden at the lower trai ihead and a wealth had a formal name, but we're calling it the of large trees I believe it is one of the loveliest, if Tradition Plateau Access Trail. Now that road least known, trails on Cougar. A few more first- work has finished, the construction HQ can Saturdays work parties in 2004 will complete become trailhead parking, and we're scouting widening the, upper end to the park's 3-foot reroutes to replace utility line hiking with forest standard. walks.. The route offers a lovely panoramic view of Issaquah only a short jog up, and connects via Bear Ridge, with its trailhead exactly 1 mile south the Ruth Keyes Big Tree Trail (24 foot wide doug of Neport Way on SR900, is another little-used fir!) and the boardwalked "Swamp Monster" trail, but easily accessible from Bellevue, Wetlands trail to popular hikes around Tradition Issaquah, and 1-90. Starting out on an old road, Lake and the Talus Caves. it is the gentlest climb on the east side of Cougar, and favored by some long-time hikers who don't Creating a high-spec, mud free trail between like to step as high as they used to. Issaquah and the watershed trails above will encourage new hikers and provide a pleasant The Fantastic Erratic, a large glacial boulder one alternative to the overcrowded parking lot at High mile up from SR900, is a common destination, Point. though with connecting trails AA Peak can be reached and looped back on an entirely different This should be a real community project, and we route. Two years ago WTA widened the County may get started as early as this quarter, so come to portion of the trail. When the lower .85 mi. was one of the first Saturday events and pitch in! ceded to Issaquah from the Talus developer, a reduced county work force could no longer brush and clear windfalls so the club took it on. In just one year of "special event" work parties, various December 4 Windstorm Causes groups of scouts, alumni, and office workers have Extensive Trail Damage and a Call removed trip roots and windfall litter, and widened what has always been a solid trail. It For Your Help will now be easy to maintain for a decade or more. by Steve Drew Some new structure work and a'series of more As you know, the morning of December 411 than 40 steps have made the hike a bit easier brought winds here in the Alps with gusts reaching where a future link from Talus will come in (and 70 mph coming from the east and southeast. where the bear actually lives). The focus of our small every weekend "pickup" work parties, we Old timers agree that the damage on Tiger and should finish up by February 2004. Squak is as bad as we have seen. So far it looks as though Cougar trails sustained much less damage. What's next? After finishing these two Cougar It will be months before most of the trails are back trails, and having worked on the great Squak to an easily hikable condition and new trail projects Mountain Access Trail in 2000-01, we're setting have been suspended as all our resources are being our sights on the third Alp, Tiger Mountain. The focused on trail restoration. ,trail that begins with a big red metalfiower at the continued on page 4 Exit 18 interchange and Sunset 'Way has never - 4 IssaquahAlps Trails Club continued from page 3 Our guided hike program will continue with Hiker's Corner actual hike location changes announced at the pre- hike meetings based on the latest trail conditions. Greetings Fellow Hikers, Also the ratings printed in our trail guides and Last year was certainly a great maps may underestimate a trails present difficulty year for hiking. With our rain- as a result of large downed trees, debris and free summer and great weather related trail damage. we had a record number of hikers. We'll probably finish Restoring these trails will take an immense the year with around amount of work and club resources. Our trail crew 1500 hikers on 160 scheduled coordinator, Scott Semans and I put in over 20 hikes and work parties.
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