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Club Refreshments

• Oct – Larry and Paulette McGimsey
• Nov – Paula Kratzer
• Dec – Gary Bogott

Board meeting notes

• 1. Long term access to a meeting room at the Moose Lodge. Providing a meeting space for organizations such as TRR is a service the Moose Lodge does for the community. It is not a requirement that TRR has a member in the Moose Lodge to enjoy this community service.
• 2. Promotional Committee priorities. We discussed priority topics that need to be completed to support new members. The first is to finalize what a new member packet contains and document the process. We will need welcoming committee volunteers and the ability of any club officer to fill in if necessary. We also need a new member mentor group. The decisions and processes for these new member support functions need to be documented and presented to the club officers and then the membership.
• 3. Required trip/event registration. We discussed a method for requiring event/trip registration through Club Express. Ideas to accommodate those who are not computer/web savvy were suggested. This is also a high priority topic. It was noted that only folks who do NOT register for an event/trip would need to sign a waiver at the trip meeting location. This translates into less work for the trip leader.
• 4. Facebook and TRR general forum usage rules. We discussed the possible need for controls and perhaps a formal set of usage rules for each. It was decided we won’t address this immediately, as support for new members is the priority.

Trip Pictures

Miller Rock FR523.1C Project

by Adam Mehlberg

On a nice sunny Saturday, September 14, some of our members headed up to the Raymond Store to meet Skye and Jayme of the Boulder Ranger District to do some route control on our adopted road, Miller Rock. We needed to create an end of road barrier where the MVUM show the end of FR523.1C. People had been driving vehicles, ATVs, and Side by Sides down to the Middle St. Vrain River, beyond the end of the road and were making user trails along river and ups the banks. One Jeep had crossed the river and tried to drive up the old ledge road where he slid off and got stuck. It was time to solve this problem.

Gordon, Greg and myself, brought small trailers to haul up the buck and rail, generators, signs, and posts. After loading materials from the Forest Service trailer, Gary and Paula took the lead, followed by Gordon, Richard and Carla, Mark, me, James, and Greg. This put someone in front of each vehicle with a trailer in case they needed help over and obstacle.

At the top we took a left onto FR523 and headed east. As we went in we noted areas that would need some work on our way out. After making all of the intersections, we came to where the end of FR523.1C should end. It was in an area that afforded a turn around. We unloaded the materials and planned out where the fencing would go. Gary, Paula, Gordon, and James went down the road past the closure point and hauled as many large dead trees as they could find into the road to help deter traffic.

While they were doing that, the rest of us got busy on the fence. First we assembled the bucks and laid them out where they would be placed. Next, we started the assembly of the rails to the bucks. We built four sections with down rails at the end.

Using a T-Bar we placed a sign in the center of the old road bed with the fencing.

It didn’t take long to complete the fence once we got started.

After loading the tools, we headed back out, stopping to replace a carsonite at FR532.1B. We also used carsonites to block off an illegal route up around some boulders. These may not last, but it’s a start.