Amgen Volunteer Trailwork Day on Sin Nombre Trail in Pt Mugu State Park on April 15, 2012

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8:15 AM, Cars and volunteers meet up at the meeting place, waiting to caravan down to Danielson Multiuse Area where we start off.	Pulling into Danielson Multiuse Area	Amgen volunteers line up to have their photo taken
	One crew worked on this corner where many mountain bikers have been injured over the years. After crossing the creek, the climb up is deceptively steep. It's easy to stall, then fall down the bank because the trail is too narrow to put your foot down on the inside of the turn.	This rock near the lowest point has many scratches from being hit by bike pedals
From the other side, the arrow shows the rock that sticks up into the trail. The fix is to make the trail wider by moving this rock to the outside of the trail (towards the downhill bank) and building up the outside of the remainder of the trail with new rocks	Collecting big rocks to broaden the trail and fortify the outside of it
Moving a rock onto the rock sling so it can be carried to the worksite	This rock is really heavy! We can only move it a dozen feet or so before we need a rest...	... and we didn't even lift it - dragging was in order!
Moving the rock that's sticking up in the middle of the trail	Digging a bench for the new rocks to sit on at the outside of the trail
This helicopter happened to fly over as we were working.	Moving the rocks into place
Pretty tree next to the trail near where we were working	Everyone takes a break together for lunch	We didn't all work on fixing up that corner - some were working on clearing out brush that was overgrowing the trail
	Back to moving the rocks	This is a pretty good view of the bench on which the new rocks will sit to build up the outside edge of the trail
Looking for another big rock. Jerry isn't sensitive to poison oak so he can explore off the side of the trail here, but he's the only one!
		Now we have all the rocks so it's just a matter of placing them on the bench

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