Backcountry.com Ruth Lake Adopt-A-Crag Event

No washing your cars this week

It seems that whenever I wash my car it rains or snows.  Long a tactic employed by many skiers and snowboarders this harmless expression of vanity is often a tipping point for the weather gods. 

Right now the 10-day forecast for the Uintas is looking pretty good with 84 and sunny on Saturday.  So please, don't wash your car this week.  Let them get dirty and grimy but whatever you do, don't succumb until after Saturdays event.

BBQ and Camping - Free for Volunteers

After the event Backcountry.com will be hosting a BBQ and camping at a group site - all free for those that volunteer for the crag/trail work day.  The BBQ will get under way at 5pm.

Location?

We've reserved and paid for the camping at Washington Lake - which is near the Trial Lake turn off on the Mirror Lake Highway. We've got the LINC group campsight near the lake. I'm going to head up there tomorrow and will post some pictures and then you can determine if you'll spend the night. With room for 50 it should be a good time.

Washington Lake campground in the Uintas

Wear boots if you've got them

I met with the Forest Service last week about the event and there were a few details about what to wear that came out of that meeting. Check it.

• No sandals please.  Bring them for the BBQ that Backcountry.com will be hosting - more info to come on this gem
  
• If you will be using any of the tools - shovel, pulaski, rock bar, etc - then we ask that you wear hiking boots - the burly kind your dad used to wear
• If you don't have hiking boots, wear a sturdy trail runner or day hiker shoe
• Bring some leather work gloves.  Your dad should have some out in the shed.
• Garden gloves work too.  Mom has some with the potting soil
• Throw in a sweatshirt or a fleece - it could be chilly up there
• Long pants are preferred - for your safety and for the Forest Service regulations
• Bug spray - unless you are into organic blood donation and feeling lucky against the west nile.

That's it for now.

Oh yea - don't know what a pulaski is?  Aside from being a Fort in Georgia, a doctor on Star Trek and the name of a lake it a trail tool.  Here's a little trail tools breakdown from International Mountain Biking Association.

The real pulaski

Photo from Ruth Lake

Here is a photo from Nathan Smith of www.pullphotography.com from the Ruth Lake Crag.  Thanks for the photo.