Instead of the typical 4 to 10 people on the Trail Project, we had about 30. This included Fearless leader Barry and climbers Beth, Annette,
Louie, Gary, & Cheryl. A special thanks to both the UT fraternity and the Brownie troop (Unfortunately, I was usually too busy doing stuff
to take pictures and I'm glad Cheryl got the few that she did). The fraternity provided some serious manpower. They helped immensly with
building a granite rest bench for main trail hikers near the end of the tree line on the way up. To start, fraternity members and I carried an
approximately 600lb block of granite up to help form the base of the bench. This one rock about finished us off. No major injuries occured
but one brother on the outside of the carrying litter was forced into a cactus. I doubt he will be sitting down anytime soon. Another one sliced
his finger on the quarried granite - because he didn't have gloves. I took a one hour detour to show the TPW news crew our previous work
on the blue trail. I hope this turns into great publicity for the trail project because I believe that Karen and Sarah got excellent footage of people
using our trails.

Because of all the extra help ( brought by film crew publicity), the day's project was mostly done by 1pm.
Therefore, Cheryl and I went climbing. She hadn't down very much of Erock before so I introduced her to some of my favorites: Amazon
Boulder and Bush crack. She got up much better than I did when I first tried these routes. When we arrived at Bush crack around 5pm, there
were four climbers on Rope Eater, two cracks to the left of Bush Crack (I suspect the one in the middle would be called 'Bush Eater'? ).
I had never noticed this climb before and I still have no idea what grade it is - but I suspect around 5.10 if you can reach the bouldery start
about 8 feet in the air ( I got a boost). One of the climbers, Steve, stuck around to give me a belay. What an awesome route! I can't wait
to do it again. I got my "top-rope onsight" with a bit of struggling - which you can see by my facial expression - and a litttle gratuitous beta.
The above-the-head knee bar was expecially cool. I have no photo proof, but right after picture 4, I took a completely hands-free! rest
on the knee bar.

After Bush crack, Cheryl and I joined Annette at the campsite and set up tents. I was tired - mainly from that crazy 600lb. rock. It was raining
Sunday morning, which killed the climbing, but we all sat around and shared food until around 10am or so. No one wanted the oatmeal and
sausage that I brought, but I enjoyed their pancakes, bread & cheese. For anyone that hasn't done the trail project, it's always an enjoyable
experience and it's even more satisfying than just climbing.