Saturday Loose Rock Trundling and Clean-up

with John Cook from Austin Parks Department

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Loose Rock		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock1_JohnCook.jpg
LooseRock_JohnCook		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock_Paige,Chris.jpg
Paige,Chris		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock_JohnCook,Jaime,Paige,Luke.jpg
JohnCook,Jaime,Paige,Luke
A week after the big loose rock below fell off thw greenbelt after heavy rains, CTM got approval to host a crew to clean up the remaining precariously balanced loose rocks above the New Wall under the supervision of John Cook. The excellent turnout included:
Tommy B, Luke B, Paige B, Austin M, Cheryl C, Scott L, Chris G, Jaime C, Carlos, Evan, Trip L and Kita K.
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LooseRock crew
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LooseRock crew
Jaime,John,Chris,Austin
Luke,Tommy,Scott		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock_Chris,JohnCook,Jaime,Luke.jpg
LooseRock crew
Chris,JohnCook,Jaime,Luke		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock_Tommy.jpg
Tommy		 Greenbelt_NewWall_LooseRock_Evan,JohnCook.jpg
LooseRock
Evan,JohnCook
After John prepares us to close off the area, Luke, Scott, and Evan all climb to the top of Flintstones and Schoolboy to set up anchors. They hauled up two 7 ft. pry bars to do the dirty work. Along with thousands of smaller rocks, two huge blocks are trundled. The largest, refrigerator-sized rock shakes the whole area. It was apparently held up by only a little bit of dirt which required very little moving - thus proving the urgency of this project.
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Frigerator Rock crew
Jaime,Luke,Chris,Tommy
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Frigerator Rock crew
Jaime,Luke.Chris,Tommy
Austin,Evan
After those of us on the ground suffered some incredibly rude abuse from various hikers and bikers for closing the Western side of the trail, Paige could not wait to climb.
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Flintstones_Kita_01		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Flintstones_Kita_02.jpg
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Kita also gets to play on Flintstones after the top area is cleaned and re-cleaned
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Flintstones_Kita_04		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Flintstones_Kita_05.jpg
Flintstones_Kita_05		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Flintstones_Kita_06.jpg
Flintstones_Kita_06		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Flintstones_Kita_07.jpg
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Flintstones_Kita_09		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Flintstones_Kita_10.jpg
Flintstones_Kita_10		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Hysteria_Jaime_01.jpg
Hysteria_Jaime_01		 Greenbelt_NewWall_Hysteria_Jaime_02.jpg
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Jaime uses an ear-jamming technique on the beginning of Hysteria.
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