TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 12/24/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: damp
Observations/Information: Completed re-route of 100 foot section of orange trail that was destroyed by a blockage in the river and over flowed the banks. Benching was easy, just need to blaze
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

   

Date: 12/23/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: WILTON
Trail Conditions: WET
Observations/Information: Ryan Tucker and I tackled the removal of a huge tree in the river on the orange trail. This tree has created a dam that has raised the water level behind the tree 2 feet higher and after a rain the river swells even more and breaches the bank. The trail has completely been destroyed for about 75-100 feet; an approved re-route not has to be put in, currently there is a temporary re-route

Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 12/19/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Dry
Observations/Information: Finished cutting down some widow makers on the blue trail; flagged the re-route on the orange; began chain sawing the trees blocking the river on the orange trail; Also had a 1 hour meeting with WCC regarding projects. (2 hours TM / 1 hour meeting-planning)
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 12/17/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Damp
Observations/Information: Armored about 30 feet of the end of the Red trail and dug a drainage ditch to help remove water. Continued armoring by Raptor. Will need to chain saw out a large limb in order to move the trail over about 15 feet to higher drier ground
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

   

Date: 12/11/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Wet
Observations/Information: Continued work on the Re-routed an approved 300+ section of the blue trail which required extensive benching and rock armoring; Also raked in a temp trail on orange as trees fell in river creating a dam and the water now has crested the bank and the river is now going down the trail for 50 feet then going back in the river


Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

   

Date: 12/10/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: WIlton
Trail Conditions: Wet
Observations/Information: Re-routed an approved 300+ section of the blue trail which required extensive benching and rock armoring; we had 4 NEMBA workers (Ryan T., Paula B., Chris K and myself) along with 2 park riders

Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 11/27/11
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: wet
Observations/Information: cleared the last of the trees and armored the red trail
Trail Ambassador Name: dave Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 11/26/11
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Wet
Observations/Information: Worked on the large tree across the blue trail by the boas lane lot...30+ inch tree quite the challenge....but nearly done
Trail Ambassador Name: Dave Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 11/19/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Dry
Observations/Information: Worked on clearing a 2 foot diameter tree that was up rooted and was blocking the trail, 2 hours of chain sawing and the trail is back open. Then proceeded to Boas lane to begin work on cutting up another verg large tree
Trail Ambassador Name: Dave Francefort

Wilton Woods

Date: 11/12/11
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: WIlton
Trail Conditions: leafy, dry
Observations/Information: Still more trees to clear, managed to do half of back blue and orange and white.
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

Wilton Woods

   

Date: 11/05/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: WIlton
Trail Conditions: Damp, Blow Downs
Observations/Information: A tree or large branch about every 100 feet or so made for a long day of chain sawing. Completed Blue West to Red, Red, Orange back to Branch Brook, Blue East to Orange, White

   

Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 9/5/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: WIlton
Trail Conditions: Dry
Observations/Information: Continue up blue trail where I have identified another 6-8 large down trees.

Trail Ambassador Name: david francefort

Wilton Woods

   

Date: 9/4/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Dry
Observations/Information: Continue chain sawing down tree, hiked up blue east and immediately was block by 4 down trees, this took 2 tanks of gas and 2 hours to cut and remove all the down fall
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

Wilton Woods

Date: 8/31/2011
Report Type: TM Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Blow Downs everywhere
Observations/Information: Task was to open blue to red and orang back to car for mountain biking.
We have crew of 5, including TA Ryan Tucker
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

Wilton Woods

Date: 7/23/2011
Report Type: TA Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Dry, Buggy
Observations/Information: Place is rippin fast, hooked up with some new peeps so I gave them a tour
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

Wilton Woods

Date: 7/16/2011
Report Type: TA Report:
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Dry, Fast
Observations/Information: Gave a tour of the entire park to a couple of riders. We hit up all the goodies. I did give directions for a good loop to a couple of riders in the parking lot and we actually ran into one of them out on the trail and they said they were having a fantastic time exploring the park
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 6/12/2011
Report Type: TM Report
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Wet, Wet and Wet
Observations/Information: Last nights deluge of rain really made the trail wet. Hiked out to continue reclamation of blue trail re-route, also installed about 2 dozen knicks on the existing blue trail.

Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefprt

TM Report: Wilton Woods

   

Date: 6/11/2011
Report Type: TM Report
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: Wet
Observations/Information: Organized Trail Maintenance session to work on closing section of Blue trail. Reclamation included, digging up the trail tread, installing 5 check dams, bringing in top soil and transplanting around 50 plants/trees.

Trail Ambassadors: Ryan Rucker, David Francefort, Rich Coffey and Peter (volunteer)

TA Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 6/1/2011
Report Type: TA Report
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: damp, greasy
Observations/Information: Another Wilton Woods Wednesday NEMBA sponsored ride, we had 5 tonight in the group, including a person from Belgium here on business for 2 weeks, let him borrow one of my bikes and the guy has skills...We hit up all the fun stuff, with minimal stops because of the skeeters.
Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort

TM Report: Wilton Woods

Date: 5/31/2011
Report Type: TM Report
Trail Name: Wilton Woods
Town: Wilton
Trail Conditions: damp, buggy
Observations/Information: Received approval to move a wooden bridge on a close trail across the park to the north white trail which has a small stream crossing it and a problematic wet area. I brought my mountaineering backpack and took 3 loads of about 70lbs each across the park about 1 mile and then rebuilt the bridge and began some rock armoring across the muddy area, but the skeeters started to get the best of me so I left and will return to complete the armoring.

Trail Ambassador Name: David Francefort