Klamath Trails Alliance

The lower 3.7 miles of Spence Peak Tr is now open. It is a two way trail, but made to be a nice climb. Work continues on the portions above this level that will eventually connect to the top of the mountain. Peak Tie Tr work is also continuing.

Trail work is one of the few occupations where social isolation is the norm. Work is going on on Spence Peak Tr now, but can’t go too high on the mountain yet because of snow. They have more done than I thought they could get in the short period of time they have been there. The trails are still muddy for the most part although Queen of the Lake is in pretty good condition except for a couple areas in the first 1/4 mi.

Just a short note to announce that the new trails: Queen of the Lake, Lower Winema, and North Star are all open for business. GO ride them and have fun. Watch out riding Queen of the Lake as the rocks are tough and the trail is narrow and steep in places.

The trails are coming along and the work should be done in the next couple weeks. Currently:

1) Queen of the Lake: The gap as of yesterday is about .35 miles. The work has been slow recently as the rocks are very large and everywhere. The bright spot in all this is that the worst of the rocks are behind them and they actually have some dirt to make a trail again. This is going to be a really nice trail when complete.

2) Winema: Almost fully completed with only a short section of grooming remaining. So about 1.30 miles of blue and 0.5 miles of green trail.

3) North Star: About 2.25 miles cut with some grooming remaining in that distance. They are working from both sides and hope to bridge the 1 mile gap next week some time.

The Dirt Mechanics trail work is going well. The work on Winema and North Star is mostly machine and goes fairly quickly. The work on QOTL is completely by hand and is slow. As of yesterday:

1) Winema: The blue portion is mostly complete except for a section of hand grooming that needs to be completed. The green upper 0.5 mi section is being cut presently.
2) North Star: At present about 1.9 miles of trail has been cut, most of which is fully groomed. There is about 1.35 mi left to complete.
3) Queen of the Lake: about 0.4 miles in the center is yet to be completed. There is about 0.6 miles complete on the south side and 0.9 miles complete on the north side.

We went out and rode Spence yesterday. The trails are in great shape right now and I am told the snowy section near the top is mostly gone with only a couple of hike-a-bike sections left. Trail building is proceeding well. Currently North Star has about 1.3 miles of trail cut (40% of the total?), about 1 mile of that fully groomed. The blue section of Winema is about 2/3 complete – should be completed this coming week. Queen of the Lake has about 0.9 miles left to complete, but that is some tough terrain to build in and will take a while as it is being cut entirely by hand.