November 6, 2003
Copper Breaks State Park, QUANAH, Texas - by Galen Stewart
The second Copper Breaks S.P. work trip was made in early November. We all arrived at the park by Thursday afternoon and set up the camp. On Thursday evening, the sky opened up and we had over an inch of rain. As a result of the rain and muddy trail conditions, we had to alter our initial plans to work on the trail in the northwest end of the park. Instead, Fred Winkler and Chuck Lundstedt worked with Rick Morrison (a.k.a. Ranger Rick) in clearing the Rocky Ledges trail while Mary Zeitler, Ray Fore and Galen Stewart began to make several new directional and informational signs.
On Sunday afternoon, we walked the Bull Canyon Trail with Rick. He showed us the area of the park where future trail work is needed. On Sunday evening, the park staff prepared hamburgers, etc., as a thank-you for our weekend's work. Both the park manager, Dave Turner and Rick again expressed their appreciation for our work and said they would contact Lynda to request additional Trail Tamer help in 2004.
On Monday morning, we headed back to our homes with the feeling that we had again made a positive contribution to the maintenance of one of our State Parks and also had a very positive work experience with the staff.
Sunday, November 30, 2003
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