So... today was our scheduled trailwork day with FATRAC out at Salmon Falls AKA Darrington Trail. Our group all arrived on time for a 10:30 departure into the singletrack for a few hours of much needed clearing and downed tree removal. We split up into 3 groups so that one group could clear a tree from Sweetwater before meeting up with the other 2 on Salmon Falls. The day was awesome, weather good, good work, pics, yadda yadda.
About 1pm we began to wrap up and head back to the trailhead. Upon arrival back at the trailhead, we initially noticed yellow caution tape across the entire parking lot around our cars. My initial thought was that someone was breaking into cars and the cops had arrived. We then were notified that a body had been found by some passing motorcyclists in a ditch at the north end of the parking lot. Pretty freaky stuff.
After our raffle and the process of giving our names/statements to the El Dorado County Sheriffs, we were allowed to return to our cars and vacate the lot. Channel 3 and 10 were on scened to report.
There's more pics of our day on Flickr if you're interested.
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Trailwork pics on Flickr
Usually a day of trailwork leaves you with good intrinsic satisfaction.. It did, but was short-lived.
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