Training Run Info - Print these information sheets and bring them with you on Training days.

Training Run info sheet
Strawberry Loop info sheet
Kenyon Devore info sheet

The Mt. Disappointment Endurance Race is an approved USFS Angeles National Forest trail maintenance group. Trail restoration, trail maintenance, and trailhead/station area improvement/maintenance projects are just some of the charities of The Mt. Disappointment Endurance Race. Some of our trail maintenance and community volunteering goals are:

• Restoration and maintenance of the USFS trail network
• Providing volunteer opportunities for Los Angeles area residents
• Parking area clean-up and improvement projects
• Painting and repairs of tables, rails, signs, structures, and stations
• Assisting other volunteer groups with their projects
• Providing projects and hands-on help for scouting troops

All Mt. Disappointment Trailwork volunteers will meet at the bottom of Highway # 2 just above the HWY # 2 exit north off the 210 FWY. Meeting time is always 7:30am.

Trail work dates are:

Please contact Gary Hilliard or Gabor Kozinc if you want to come help. All trailwork hours can be certified for volunteer credit.

Kenyon-Devore Trail Maintenance

 

Things to bring for trailwork

• Proper clothing - Hat, trail shoes or boots, long pants and long-sleeve shirts.
• Work gloves.
• Sunscreen, bug repellant.
• Food & water (enough for a one day hike).
• Personal first-aid kit, band-aids.





Red Box Guardrail Restoration Project - 2008

Tools of the Trail

The two most common tools used are the Pulaski, a sturdy tool used for rough work which has an axe blade on one side and a grub hoe on the other. The other widely used tool is the McLeod. It has a flat, square shaped blade with a cutting edge on one side and a rake with widely spaced tines on the other. The cutting edge of a McLeod is good for taking off small layers of dirt, while the rake can be used to clear leaves and disperse the loose dirt. The McLeod is also great for packing down soils because of its flat bottom.
Other tools include flat and rounded shovels, the adze hoe, tree pruning shears, rock bars, the pick mattock, clinometers (used for measuring slopes), weedwackers, and chainsaws; the last two must have spark arresters if used in the Angeles National Forest.

The McLeod and Pulaski

Safety First!

Always have a safety orientation meeting on the tools and the trails BEFORE beginning any trail work. Always have someone available with first aid training and a first aid kit close by. When working with tools of any type, always be safe.
THINK! Be aware of what is going on around you, and never swing or carry a tool over your shoulders. Also, be ambidextrous with tools, so at the end of the day; you will be sore all over and not just on one side.

Happy Trails!

Photos by Jan and Mike Riter (courtesy of International Mountain Biking Association IMBA).
Some of the narrative information above also courtesy of IMBA.
More information can be found at: The IMBA website

Volunteers clear trail

Thanks go out to Rollan James Parker of BSA Troup 966 (Torrance) who's Eagle Scout project involved clearing the section of trail between Switzer's and Clear Creek Station. Rollan, along with Trail Boss Leader David Ledford (Scoutmaster) and their group of 29 volunteers, worked in 100 degree heat to clear the trail of vegetation and rocks. The staff of the Mt. Disappointment 50k is very grateful to them for their tireless efforts.