Recent trail work on Cinderella Trail
On Sunday, May 9, an enthusiastic group assembled on a perfect sunny day to do trail maintenance on Cinderella Trail in Joaquin Miller Park. The day’s tasks included cutting back vegetation — which inevitably includes poison oak — and moving dirt to improve drainage. BTCEB board members Scott Bartlebaugh and David Wilcox lead the work on two grade reversals which will move rainwater off the trail and eliminate a deep rut. The result was textbook, modern trail work that should stand up to heavy use for a few years. Building these structures is a lot more work than clearing out drains but they generally don’t need as much maintenance (and are more fun to ride over).
Further down the trail, Friends of JMP board member Bobbi Babineau-Lounds and longtime BTCEB member (and, so far, poison oak-resistant) Michael Leister trimmed back brush including some eye-level poison oak. Cinderella is one of the most popular trails in the park and bike speeds can be fast, so cutting back the shrubs to maintain sight lines is an important safety measure. The trail is open to all users and on some days as many hikers come up the trail as bikes go down. We also had attendance from members of the East Bay International School mountain bike team, including high school student Kyla Bush-King, who also just joined the BTCEB board as one of two youth board members.
Tom Gandesbery, Trails Director
