06/19/2026
Last week’s “Scorpions On The Trail” Work Summaries
Tuesday June 16th - On Tuesday, six Scorpions continued on "The Trail That Keeps On Giving" (aka Olallie) and started work up the Olallie Mountain Trail. Weather was sunny and hot. We hiked up to the saddle and jct with the Mountain Trail and started work with the first tangle right at the jct. We had three saw teams going and never got very far away from each other. Most of the down logs and tangles are in the smaller range (16" or less), but there are plenty of them. One fun tangle area had all the teams working within a few dozen feet of each other.
After lunch in a shaded area, we finished up one of the tangle areas and pushed on. In the end, we got about 1/2 mile up the trail, with about 1.2 miles left to go to the top. It was a great (and sweaty hot) day. Thank you to all who braved the heat to work on this popular trail. We will be back up there soon to continue pushing up towards the summit!.....Garrett
Thursday June 18th – The Salamander and Scorpion trail crews teamed up once again to logout Patjens trail #3395. This trail starts up by Mt Hoodo and passes by beautiful Big Lake and Mt Washington. It is roughly a 7-mile loop with the first two miles on either side of the loop outside of the Mt. Washington Wilderness area boundary. It burned heavily in the 2003 B&B Complex fire and every year there are several hundred logs across the trail.
We fortunately had a large crew of Salamanders and Scorpions. Three chain saw teams were formed as well as 3 crosscut teams. The crosscut teams hurdled their way over the logs in the non-wilderness zones to get the Wilderness boundary about a mile in to start clearing logs. The chains saw teams started up pretty much at the trailhead and had several hundred logs to buck up before they would get to the Wilderness area where all power tools are prohibited. Crews were working clockwise and counterclockwise around the loop.
The trail is mostly between 4400ft and 4900ft. Because of the elevation most of the logs were on the small diameter side. But they were all super dry and mostly top bound logs sitting right on the ground. For the XC-crews it felt like we were trying to cut through rock.
By about 3PM all the crews were heading back to the TH. The chainsaw crews succeeded in bucking up all the non-Wilderness trail logs. The Crosscut crews also made great progress but left about 15 logs over the west side of the trail.
Thanks to all for some great work.
We hope to see you on the trail soon.
Next week's projects:
Thursday June25th - Olallie Mt trail XC-logout
Sign up link: https://bttr.im/9meq2
Saturday to Monday June 27-29 - Olallie and Park trail XC multi-day logout & campout
Sign up link: https://bttr.im/3l2s8