FORESTRY: 2.5 hours: 3:00 PM to 5:30 PM

Slashing of brush and broken trees, plus thinning and pruning in the south side of Eastern Wedge unit #5.

Forestry portion of trail project in the south end of Eastern Wedge unit #5. Slashed down immense thickets of tall, decrepit salmonberry/elderberry brush, along with bent and broken hemlock clumps. Cut down the leaning alders and pruned the good ones. Turned an impenetrable zone into an accessible, attractive stand with good specimens and some room for new trees to grow in the small openings. Covered much of the area above the trail up towards the eastern property line.

TRAILS: 4 hours: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM

Finished the trail from the South Seep to the High Road in Eastern Wedge unit #5.

New trail creation. Finished the main trail through Eastern Wedge unit #5, connecting the north and south ends through the collapsed hemlock thicket on the south side of the seeps. Routed the trail a little higher than the path I roughed out the other day, to avoid a dip into a stream ravine. Ended up on higher, drier ground with a mellow stream crossing. Also placed a few cedar shake bolts as stepping stones across a wet area. Cleaned up the southern approach that had been roughed out weeks earlier, including slicing up and rolling away large, rotten log chunks.