If you’re familiar with the wooden trestle over Morse Creek, you know it’s a beautiful stretch over the water and beneath a dense canopy of trees. You probably also know that the 90-degree turn to get on and off the trestle could be a little tricky to navigate. That sharp turn, we’re happy to announce, is now history.
On November 14 and 15, 2014, volunteers with the Peninsula Trails Coalition enjoyed a successful work party to improve access on the Morse Creek trestle ramp. Dan Rugh, Dick Gritman, Gene Rimov, Jeff Rimov, Glenn Carlson, Elden Hovyuberger, Gordon Taylor, and Ron Goldhammer all contributed their time and talents to transform a 90-degree turn into a wider, smoother turn that is now safer for everyone, particularly bicyclists and trail users in wheelchairs or mobility scooters. Volunteers will return to paint the new section when temperatures rise above 50 degrees. Elden and Dan even found a bit of time to pull a few weeds while they were out there.
Watch the project take shape in the slideshow at the bottom of this post.
Thanks to all of our enthusiastic volunteers for your contributions to the Olympic Discovery Trail. If you would like to play a role in caring for the trail, visit the Volunteers page for more information.
Your PTC membership dues and donations played an important role! Your membership dues and donations do more than buy materials to keep the trail clean and safe. You also help keep our volunteers safe! For this project, we used PTC funds to buy “fall protection kits,” which are like climbing harnesses that tether workers to the trestle (or a tree near a steep trail edge). It’s quite a drop over the side of the Morse Creek trestle, but the guys were all safe thanks to your generous support. Click here to join the Peninsula Trails Coalition or to make a donation. Thanks for your support!
Thanks to Jeff Rimov for sharing photographs from this project.
