CLEAN UP FOR WINTER: 2010

On November 13th, a hardy group of South Star members gathered to attend to trail business, namely trees across the paths, intruding branches and other impediments that would lessen the joy of our x-country experience this coming ski season. Thank-you to all who turned out and also to Dave Basaraba who has steadily cleared trails through the summer, thereby significantly reducing our workload. In fact, it took almost 3 hours with 7 volunteers, 2 chainsaws, many clippers, 2 trucks and an ATV to run the trails and remove the debris and "widow makers"( a hung up limb which threatens to fall on someone at a bad moment). Hopefully, the trees which are still standing will remain so through the ski season until we gather again for the spring clean up. After our work, we gathered at Barbara & Rocke Robertson's house to warm up and discuss the pressing issues of the day - wax/no wax, back country/classic, etc. Now, we just wait for the snow!