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The Conejo Spring Trailwork Day: Restoring Trails in the Western Plateau area after severe erosion from winter rains; on March 18, 2017

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Crew 1 work area
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Crew 2 work area, to build a new trail segment that bypasses the mud pit.
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Crew 3 work area, to widen the trail by digging out the 'slough' that's fallen onto the inside edge of the trail.
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Crew 4 work area, to fill the large rut with gravel from the stream.
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Crew 4 work area, to fill the huge rut with gravel from the stream. Unfortunately we didn't have enough people to form a Crew 4, so these huge ruts are still there.
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The rest of the photos are of Crew 5 at work. Here they're widening the trail.
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This rut need to be filled and a drain built to keep the water from flowing down the trail and regenerating the rut.
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Filling in a rut and leveling the trail We did a lot of this!
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Building a new drain to divert water off the trail. We did a lot of this, too.
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The trail widening is coming along very well!
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The trail looks almost new after filling the center rut and levelling it out!
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We had a big rut to fill, so we took gravel from the streambed and dumped it in the rut.
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Chopping out a yucca plant that's in the way of a new drain.
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This new drain is almost finished. The final step(s) is to pack it down by stamping it with your feet.
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This trail 'cut' (shortcut) is being covered with rocks to disuade people from using it.
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Filling in the rut with gravel taken from the steambed.
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