2011 Season- 1st Month

This bridge is on the Grotto Trail. It is one of 3 bridges that washed out on this trail this spring.

Dandelions: Taraxacum officinale

Mountain Bluebells: Mertensia oblongifolia

Ballhead Waterleaf: Hydrophyllum capitatum

Chokecherry: Prunus virginiana

Yellow Mountain Violets: Viola purpurea

Woodland Star: Lithophragma parviflorum

Mullein: Verbascum thaspus

Wild Strawberry: Fragaria vesca

Maple tree leaning across Dry Canyon Trail



Dry Canyon Trail- Right Fork Hobble Creek

Goosefoot Violet: Viola nuttallii

One of 32 cans picked up along the Dry Canyon trail.


Yellow Avalanche-Lily: Erythronium grandiflorum

Dry Canyon trail

Arrowleaf Balsamroot: Balsamorhiza sagittata

Indian Paintbrush: Castilleja chromosa

Dry Canyon- Right Fork Hobble Creek

Sign repair in Maple Canyon, Mapleton.

First bridge crossing on Wardsworth creek:
BEFORE...

AFTER...
Where Mike stands used to be where the bridge began that spanned about 18 feet across the stream. The hole between where he stands and where I took the photo was previously solid land leading up to the bridge. We will be rebuilding a bridge here sometime this summer.

Stump cut in Santaquin Canyon.

Hazard tree on the Bear Canyon trail in Salt Creek Canyon.

Cottonwood alley, Bear Canyon trail.

Lllllllook out! Big ol' rattlesnake.


Damaged bridge on the Sawmill Hollow trail, Diamond Fork Canyon.

We don't find too many Ponderosa Pines on our trails. We enjoyed lunch under this beautiful giant. Sawmill Hollow trail.

Leaner on the Bennie Creek trail, Payson Canyon.

Larkspur: Delphinium nelsonii

Bennie Creek trail, Payson Canyon.

Groundsel: Senecio integerrimus

False Hellebore: Veratrum californicum


Downed Aspen on the Bennie Creek trail, Payson Canyon.

Valerian: Valeriana occidentalis

Nettleleaf Giant Hyssop: Agastache urticifolia


Sometimes it just takes one user riding in wet conditions to create significant damage to a trail. Luckily we caught this before it got worse.

Ursus americanus

American Robin kill on the Bennie Creek trail.

Some type of wet fungus.

This big fir came down on the Bennie Creek trail.

As did this one.

Minor re-route where the original trail washed out into a 3 foot trench. Bennie Creek trail.



Baby Robins at the work site in Spanish Fork.

Salt Creek trail.

Adam falling a tree for use as a future bridge, Salt Creek trail.

Salt Creek canyon.