Ruth Lake Crag Day a Success!

At 9:30 am I sat there at the Ruth Lake trailhead with a dozen people thinking to myself, "Could this be it? I thought that there would be more people."

Slowly over the next 45 minutes another 50 people would show up and make the Ruth Lake Crag Day the most well attended Access Fund Adopt-a-Crag event that locals have seen in Utah.  The diversity of the group was fantastic.  Backcountry.com had eight employees, the Salt Lake Climbers Alliance had three of its board members, there was a family of four, a father and his four year old son, two different school groups (one of which was passing by and switched from thier hike destination to a trail work day), a group of Astrology post grad students from the University of Utah and a good mix of your run of the mill dedicated climbers to round out the 68 who registered for the event.

After a brief introduction at the trailhead by myself and the Forest Service the group set off to build cairns on the section of trail that traverses the exposed bedrock.  One volunteer described this effort the following way;  "Ted from the Forest Service would say 'Build a cairn here' and vooomff, it was done.

Needless to say the event was a tremendous success. I'll post more details and photos later. Must sleep now....