{"id":13273,"date":"2021-04-11T09:52:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-11T14:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13273"},"modified":"2021-04-12T16:03:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T21:03:56","slug":"our-world-turkey-mountain-work-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=13273","title":{"rendered":"Our World – Turkey Mountain Work Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Getting directions and instructions<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Early Saturday morning a couple dozen volunteers gathered at Turkey Mountain for a joint project between the RiverParks Authority<\/a>, who administers the Mountain, the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition<\/a>, and the Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA <\/a>located at the far northwest reaches of Turkey Mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Off we went to the work site. We had to pack all the tools about a mile to the new trail. Kudos to the guys who pushed the wheel barrows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The YMCA has shut down to totally renovate their facility and are opening up this summer. It’s going to be great and one of the things they wanted was more defined and easier to hike trails to connect their property with the rest of Turkey Mountain. The existing trails are badly eroded and unmarked and many of their day campers who go off hiking get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We broke up into three groups or so. Somebody had taken a gas powered blower and blew the leaves off the proposed trail route, earlier the route had been flagged. The people who made the route did a good job. There was very little confusion about what we were supposed to be doing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So the Riverparks staff and a few of the officers from the Wilderness Coalition mapped out a new trail that should make everybody happy. Y daycampers, and the many hikers and mountain bikers that use the trail. It features some switchbacks which should reduce erosion problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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No trees were sacrificed for the new trail! Some saplings and brush got removed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Everybody grabbed shovels, picks, saws, loppers and got to work and we got the new trail pretty much done in a few hours. People started using the new trail while we were in the middle of building it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A mystery. We found this whole with a dryer duct snaking out and a ladder going down. Apparently pretty deep. An old meth lab? Maybe, moonshiners used to be active on the mountain back in the day.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It’ll take some finishing touches but they started putting up my trail markers right away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blocking off the old trail using the materials at hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And we spent some time closing off the old badly eroded trail with fallen branches. It needs to heal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We celebrated our work with a few adult beverages in the parking lot afterward. Everybody was very proud of the work done. It was a great way to spend a Saturday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So this is me working on the trail. I stole the photo from the Urban Wilderness Coalition’s facebook page. Hopefully I won’t go to jail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

And up pops a map on a facebook page showing the old and closed routes. I am stealing this map also. I am leading quite the life of crime lately. Anyway you can see the new route is longer, not near as steep, and with switchbacks. Hopefully erosion will be more easily controlled on the new route.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I am linking with Our World Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early Saturday morning a couple dozen volunteers gathered at Turkey Mountain for a joint project between the RiverParks Authority, who administers the Mountain, the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition, and the Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA located at the far northwest reaches of Turkey Mountain. The YMCA has shut down to totally renovate their facility and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[1296,1298,2874,1285,1235,1284,1172,2876,2821],"class_list":["post-13273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-world-tuesday","tag-oklahoma","tag-our-world-tuesday","tag-riverparks-authority","tag-tulsa","tag-tulsa-urban-wilderness-coalition","tag-turkey-mountain","tag-volunteering","tag-work-day","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13273"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13280,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13273\/revisions\/13280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}