We worked hard at work this summer, and are now done for the season. Here are some pictures of some of our work on the tread and drains on the lower part of Barr trail as well as some fence repair in the first half of our 2026 work season.
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In March we were contacted by an Air Force recruiter who asked if he could have a group of new recruits help us with any of our work.
Guess what our answer was…
If you guessed “YES”, you’re correct!
We agreed on a workday where the volunteers would carry fence posts and fence rails up Barr trail from our stockpile at an elevation of 6,900’ to a storage location 0.9 mile up the trail at an elevation of 7,500’. On March 26 a group of 26 recruits and recruiters met us and got the job done.
Having all this lumber staged up the trail where it is needed will greatly increase our productivity on Barr trail post and rail days this summer. Speaking of which, the first post and rail day (i.e., days when we fix the fences) is scheduled for Saturday, June 6.
Here’s a video of some of the team passing fence rails (each about 60 pounds) to team members perched on a steep hillside who then pile them below the existing fence.
And here’s the group after they finished:
Brian’s team works at the bottom, while Larry makes crusher, and Susan gets serious with a shovel. Lindsay and Carol carefully measure the hole so the rock fits on the first try (It did.)
We had our annual year-end event on November 2, but it seems that nobody took any pictures there. We’d like to share that Geoff Rutecki was recognized with the 2025 Volunteer of the Year award. Susan presented him with a hardbound copy of the AdAmAn club’s centennial book, autographed by all living members of the club. Congratulations, Geoff!
Since we didn’t have any pictures of Geoff at the the banquet, I looked in our 2025 photo archive for pictures of Geoff on the trail. The problem with that is that he almost always had his head down, working. But I did find this one picture. Geoff is coming down Barr trail from the “Corral” (or Top of the W’s) towards the Incline bail-out, about 2:30 pm. He told us there were no more problems we needed to address that day, so we could all head back to the trailhead. This was in September, on day 1 of our 3-day Slip-n-Trip project before the Pikes Peak Marathon.
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