Nenana ORV Commitment Thread

[holeski]

You know I’m in. I have worked with DNR, Forestry and BLM in Washington on building and maintaining trails for ORV use and both Heather and myself are Master tread trainers for Tread Lightly. I have my trail trailer, chainsaws, handsaws and other tools.

Although this is an outstanding opportunity I feel that if we commit (member and non-members) to this that they should also proved us with the agreement for trail use in writing. The proposal that is written now is not written for recreational use but for competition. Also the area available to us now may be developed into something else later and if so into what, we need to keep that in mind. Also is it going to be multi-use? If so we need to contact some of the ATV and dirtbike guys and get them onboard.
As much as I would love to go out there and start cutting a trail we need to remember that as it warms up the trail we cut now may not be easily maintainable later. These are a few of my thoughts and what ever you decided I will be there to offer my insight and help, but the best way to lay the trail out is to walk it now, flag it and then walk it in the summer and re-flag it. I would cut the access road in and clear the staging area first. Set a camp area up that we can work from, build a gate, but save the trail building until we are sure of the ground.