• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

trail clearing time (pix)

Motosportz

Motosportz

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Trail clearing in my favorite trail network has begun...

I adopted trail 30 and went up there with buddy Jake to clear it. Started up the trail and clear a few little logs and trail trash and got to the turn off for the look out. Decided to clear that too and Jake and I took off.

Jakes trail clearing rig...

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Jakes setup...

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See that yellow handle that looks like it could snag something...

And see the perfect indent where it implanted in the tree?

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See where Jake lost control...

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then again...

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See Jake not so happy anymore with his new back pain and $180 chain saw in 2 large chunks, thats the chainsaw handle in his hand...

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So... Chainsaw was not usable and we decided to do what we could with hand saws and trimmers. Which in the end might have been a good plan. Seems a nice feller we ran into later in the day had just come up and cut out the 2-3 trees across the trail. So we set out to clear the many faceslappers and down trees we could move by hand...

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A few small snow drifts remain...

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Trimming it back...

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now 30 (Spencer Butte) and the view point are clear and face whipper free. Fun trail again.

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then we went and rode 80 and 80a to some bigger tress down a ways after the new bridge. We might cut them out tomorrow.

Thanks again for the new bridge Steve and crew...

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Love it...

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Then we went up 3 to the snow which is right after the long open area when you first dive into the tress. going to be a while before we get to Boundary.

Happy to be working / ridding Gifford again.

BTW, we met many hikers and they were all super nice!!! :thumbsup:

Jake has some nice video, here is some OK vid early int he day. (WR144)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcHgJs8ijmk
 
Good on you guys, that is setting a great example. Sorry about the chain saw.
 
Just got back from clearing about 35 good sized trees in 20 miles. I'm freaking tired. Pix later.
 
Thanks for the work :thumbsup:

And this priceless picture
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:lol:

I'm laughing with you Jake. Sorry about the saw and back pains though.
 
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