Downed Tree on Walnut Canyon Trail

While walking along the Pueblo trail, you can see part of the trail I built on the other side of the canyon, in 2006 and 2007. There is a tree lying across the Walnut Canyon Trail. The downed tree is on the left third of the picture.

Also in this picture there is a log near the upper right parallel to the trail where Mary and I sometimes have a picnic lunch. My friend Harunori cut off the large tree near the middle of the picture. We rolled the end over to help support the downhill side of the trail.




After cutting a few remaining strands of root, I rolled the downed tree off the trail and just downhill of the spot, but it seems to be hidden by another cluster of trees. The soil is so bone dry and powdery that the wind pulled this live 8-inch-diameter, 20-foot-tall pine up by its roots.