Project summary: Construction of the Skyline Trail
Project location: Big Bear, CA
Client: Big Bear Valley Trails Foundation trailsfoundation.org
Project Completion Date: Spring 2013
Project Details: Construction of 7.5 miles of the Skyline Trail in the San Bernardino National Forest. Approximately 3 miles of the trail was built in the fall of 2012. We will return in the spring once the snow melts. We are doing the rough cut and volunteers are doing the finish work. Keep an eye on the Trails Foundation web site for volunteer opportunities.
Day one: checking the trail alignment while the snow comes down.
Starting to build
We had a lot of rain while working up there in November. Luckily the soil is almost all decomposed granite (DG) so we did not have any mud. The rain helps for shaping the soil and packing things in. Not to mention keeping the dust down.
We had some vandalism to our equipment while on site and our cargo trailer was broken into. When we showed up for work one morning and saw this note on the back of our excavator it certainly helped to make up for some of those things!
Click here to read the article in the Big Bear Grizzly about this project
