Snowshoe Pre-Season Trail Maintenance - Swampy & Meissner

  • 25 Nov 2025
  • 8:00 AM - 1:30 PM

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Snowshoe Trail Maintenance
Tuesday November 25th
8:00 to 1:30


Between good progress at Swampy last week and other trails previously, we are down to a few odd-n-ends of pre-season work (trail status report). We have two projects for next Tuesday. Dave Alward has offered to clear a  "jumble of logs" on the Porcupine Snowshoe trail near the old Swampy Shelter and needs 2 swampers.  The second project is at Meissner and involves cutting one 12" blowdown, replacing a "You Are Here" map at junction "T", installing ~10 brackets along the Long Loop Snowshoe Trail where we lost the corridor due to recent thinning, and brushing ~100' of the Short Loop trail. Again, a couple or more folks would get the work completed quickly.

Trail conditions should be good with little, if any, snow. Walking distance will be about 3 miles at Meissner and 4 miles at Swampy.


 Plans                  

  • Tuesday November 25th
  •  (NOAA Forecast) . A 20 percent chance of snow after 10am. Partly sunny, with a high near 39.
  • Meet at Bend Parks & Recreation District Office Lot at 799 SW Columbia St (where the kayaks are in the roundabout) at 8:00 AM
  • We will park in the the parking spots closest to the river
  • Divide up and one group will head to Swampy, the other to Meissner Sno-park. 
  • Long-sleeve shirts, glasses, gloves and hard hats  I will have a couple of extra hard hats
  • Boots - no snowshoes yet!
  • Katanaboy or silky hand saws if you have one. I will bring a  a pole saw and x-cut for Meissner. Dave will bring a chain saw for Swampy.  
  • Expect to return to town by 1:30PM

    Please either sign-up on the CONC website or email me at bobtimmer@yahoo.com to  let me know if you are if you are interested in helping.

    Questions, email me or give me a call at 903-477-2168

    Thanks for your support of the trails!!

    Bob TImmer

    The Central Oregon Nordic Club, PO Box 744, Bend, OR 97709, is chapter of the Oregon Nordic Club, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization.
    Email: conordicclub@gmail.com

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