Medicine Bow Nordic Ski Patrol
Patrol Log: Sunday, February 25, 2007:
J. Pohl and R. Howell
Date:
02/25/2007
Location: Green Rock Picnic Ground -- Potholes Trail
Patrollers, etc: Bob Howell and Josef Pohl, both MBNSP, Aldo the
blunder dog.
Description: We arrived at the trail head at approximately 10 AM,
taking a car count on the way up. See below. We proceeded to ski from
the Green Rock parking area up the potholes trail. The trail was
well marked with blue flagging. Bob added some in areas we deemed
to be in need of more obvious marking. (Such as across open areas.)
Some of the lower open areas had been fairly scoured of snow. We met
one person and dog who had skied up earlier. He was on his return
trip. The snow conditions were a light dusting of new (falling) snow on
top of a sun baked/wind blown base. The base was stable though so
we did not break through. The conditions in more heavily forested
areas were better. The lower section of this trail
was fairly well traversed by skiers. The upper stretch was not
quite as
well travelled however there had been several skiers on it since the
last major snowstorm. We skied to a turn-off above the road (the
turn we took would have taken us to Brooklyn Lake and may have
intersected the North Fork Trail. This last part has not been
verified. We followed the trail for approximately another mile.
Ate lunch after a large open area and the returned on the same trail to
where the turn-off was. We took the other direction and came upon
the road just above St. Albans chapel and the Ranger Station. We
returned to Green Rock via the road.
Miscellany: The upper part of the trail had been traversed by a
lone snowmobile. There was, in addition to the blue flagging,
some orange flagging. It was not very consistent and it was not
clear who put it up. But it had been put up recently. It was not
evident how much traffic the upper part of the trail was getting but it
was getting some. The trail was fairly well packed under a fresh
dusting of snow. But this could have been from errant snow
machines.
Temp: ~26 F at 1 PM
Light snow, high winds, blowing, sunny at times.
Vehicle count: 10 AM
Trailers No trailers
Cenntenial
0 0
Forest Service visitors center
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End of Barber Lake Road
1 0
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Corner
Mt
0 1
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Little
Laramie
0 0
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Below Cattle Guard
37 1
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Cat. Grd to Turn around
23 2
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Green
Rock
0(0) 3(7) (x) is at 2:45PM
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Above Green Rock
26 4
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