{"id":16319,"date":"2026-10-20T08:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16319"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:07:54","slug":"almost-wordless-trail-work-day-at-the-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/?p=16319","title":{"rendered":"Almost Wordless &#8211; Trail Work Day at the Y"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sD2RCW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55553040954_0821f7eebb.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In late September the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tulsaurbanwildernesscoalition.org\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tulsaurbanwildernesscoalition.org\/\"><strong> Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition,<\/strong><\/a> of which I am a member and a Board Member, had a trail workday at the Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA on Turkey Mountain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sD2Rzp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55553040749_d21cdd2461.jpg\" alt=\"Rain and Clouds at Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was starting to sprinkle but it was too late to postpone the date as we had already done that once already for this event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sD2REp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55553041039_f9f41b5e27_c.jpg\" alt=\" \" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We got our canopy and tables set up and got waivers from everyone so we were ready to go. It was kind of a light turnout that day. But that&#8217;s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sD9o21\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55554313826_b5139ee7a1.jpg\" alt=\"Alan working his loppers on the trail\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an action shot of me, that I have stolen from the TUWC.  We were clearing the trails that day so I have my loppers. There was lots of poison ivy so I didn&#8217;t wear my usual tshirt and shorts for long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2sD1UJz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/55552856261_cc73cf7da8_c.jpg\" alt=\"Cleared Trail at Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s a shot of a cleared trail. We lopped the brush and poison ivy back. The YMCA has their own trails on Turkey Mountain that are extensively interconnected with the more well-known Tulsa RiverParks trail system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I am linking with <a href=\"https:\/\/wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wordlesswednesday.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><strong>Wordless Wednesday<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late September the Tulsa Urban Wilderness Coalition, of which I am a member and a Board Member, had a trail workday at the Herman and Kate Kaiser YMCA on Turkey Mountain. It was starting to sprinkle but it was too late to postpone the date as we had already done that once already for [&hellip;]<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[2545,2942,3673,1235,3099],"class_list":["post-16319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordless-wednesday","tag-wordless-wednesday-2","tag-herman-and-kate-kaiser-ymca","tag-trail-work-day","tag-tulsa-urban-wilderness-coalition","tag-tuwc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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=16319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16320,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16319\/revisions\/16320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogisden.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}