Shed Workparty Saturday May 13

 KORTS has acquired access to a Village owned shed that we plan to upgrade and use for tool storage. It’s located just outside the Village Shop fence on the west side and its previous life was as a Kaslo Market storage shed downtown.

Tom Duchastel will lead a carpentry work part starting at 9am Saturday May 13. Tom will supply tools and says “Carpentry skills an asset but not necessary”. Meet at The Shed. For further information please contact Tom directly 250-353-7427 duchasteltom@gmail.com

Trail work May 8 9am to noon

 Hi Everyone

This Monday’s work party is a bit of a departure from what we usually do, but we thought it important to do a Highway cleanup. There are 2 Hwy cleanup events planned for this week…..the first one on Monday by KORTS is the Hwy 31 entrance into Kaslo from the south hill top to the highway bridge. The second one on Wednesday is organized by Vida Turok in Sandon and is Hwy 31A from South Fork to Retallack.

Monday May 8 @ 9am meet at the YRB Yard just off Birch Ave. Turn left on Fourth Ave at the top of Hwy 31 going south from Kaslo. Wear gloves and bring a garbage picker if you have one. YRB is supplying garbage bags and some safety vests but if you have your own vest please wear it. We will be walking along Hwy 31 from the YRB yard and picking / bagging garbage as we go. If we have time and energy or lots of people we can do the section leading south out of Kaslo past the businesses.

Trail Work

 The regular Monday morning KORTS work party will continue our work at the Kaslo Family Mountain Bike Park tomorrow Monday May 1 9am - noon. We will be working on the downhill trail between Upper and Lower trail sections, weed whacking, raking, and trail tread maintenance. Bring a garden rake if you have one. KORTS will have some there as well, and 2 power weed trimmers.

Meet at the Higashi Way / Railroad Ave trailhead please.

Trail work and closures in April

A crew will begin danger tree removal in the Kaslo Disc Golf Course affecting Cedar and Hemlock trails. Trails will be closed to all use April 3-6 inclusive. Slash cleanup and burning will take place April 11-14 and the trails will be open for use.
The contractor will place trail closed signage.
Thank you for your cooperation.
KORTS 

New bridge date & Wednesday work party

It looks like all is in place for the bridge girders to be slung across the Kaslo river this Thursday, July 2. The actual time is a bit "iffy" but its suspected to be around noonish….I will send out a notice if that time is going to change. Once again, if you are planning to watch, please go to the north side.

With Wednesday being Canada Day, we will not be having a trail work party this week, and after Thursday it will be "all hands on deck" for the bridge.

Should be fun!

No Wednesday work parties for a while

There will be no trail work parties on Wednesday's for the next while as all hands will be working on the bridge, which will be slung into place on Thursday (if all goes as planned).

If you are planning to watch the process we would ask that you do so from the north side of the river, since the crane will be working from the south side. Once we know a time that the crane will be arriving, we will send out a notice and post in on the Kaslo Community web.

Bridge work parties next week June 16 & 17

Two work parties are scheduled for next week on Tuesday and Wednesday building the roof trusses.  A good cordless or corded ⅜" drill is needed (bring an extension cord if you need one).

Start time is 7am to avoid working in the heat. Meet at the Village works yard where we were doing the staining. Some heavy lifting is required.

Wednesday trail work party June 10, 9am-noon

This week we will be working on the K&S Wagon Road trail, from Retallack to Fish Lake.

Lets meet at the 4way stop / Community Garden and car pool from there. For tools, long handled snippers if you have them. I will be bringing a chainsaw, brush saw, and polaskis.

There will be no trail work party Wednesday, June 17.

No work party this Wednesday June 3

There will be no work party this Wednesday June3, as time is being spent preparing the timbers for the new bridge.

Next week we will be working on the K&S Wagon Road Trail from Retallack to Fish Lake.

No work party this Wednesday May 27

Stalwart Stu is away for a few days so there will be no Wednesday work party this week.

Work party Wednesday May 20 9am-noon

This week we will be working on a wet muddy area along the Lettrari Loop trail. Its a bit of a walk in to the site.

We will meet at the New Denver Highway trailhead. We will be bringing a chainsaw, polaskis, snips, shovels and rakes so we should be OK for tools.

No bridge staining this Saturday

Due to May Days commitments, there will be no bridge staining work this Saturday, May 16.

Work party Wednesday May 13 9am to noon

We are going to replace a wood bench with a concrete bench along the north side river trail. This means picking up the concrete bench at the Village Shop yard, and moving it by truck into place, removing the wood bench, forming and pouring red-mix concrete, and bringing back the wood bench.

We will meet at the Village Shop yard at 9am. Wear work gloves……no tools required.

No work party May 6

There will be no work party next week, so if you have some time…..

Bridge timber staining is Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday from 9:30am-12:30pm and 12:30-3:00pm, at the Village Shop.

 "Many hands make light work."

If you are hiking above the Wardner Viewpoint trail and see some new trails…..they are new switchbacks that avoid very steep sections…..follow them and they will connect you aback to the main trail.

Work party Wednesday April 29 9am to noon

Our work party this week will continue our work re-routing some of the steep sections of the Wardner Trail network.

We will meet at 9am at the Wardner Trail Viewpoint trailhead, and for tools a pair of snips if you have them.

No work party Wednesday April 22

No trail work party this Wednesday, but if you can spare some time……staining bridge timbers…..every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday. Each day has 2 shifts……10am-12:30pm, and 12:30pm-3pm.

With the warmer weather, we are very busy staining so "all hands on deck", as they say! Also,……"many hands make light work" which is especially true for some of our larger timbers!…….hope to see you there.

Work party Wednesday April 15 9am - noon

Our work party this week will be to continue work on the Connector Trail above the Wardner Viewpoint. We are building switchbacks to avoid steep sections on that trail.

We will meet at the Wardner Trail Viewpoint trailhead, and for tools a set of clippers if you have them.

Work party Wednesday April 8 9am-11am

This week we will be grubbing in some new switchbacks to avoid several steep sections along Connector 2 trail above the Wardner Trail viewpoint. For tools, snips would be useful, and polaskis and rakes will be provided.

We will meet at the Wardner Trailhead along Wardner St.

No bridge staining work party Saturday, April 4

It being Easter this coming weekend there will be no bridge staining work party this Saturday April 4.

We are progressing well staining all of the wood for the bridge, and Tom Duchastel and his crew are making good progress on the north side bridge abutment.  If you haven't already, stop by and take a look at all of the work done to date.

We will begin staining again next Tuesday April 7.

Trail work party Wednesday April 1 9am - noon

There will be a trail work party this Wednesday (no, this isn't an April Fools joke) to remove fallen trees at the south side trail viewpoint and repair the guard rail system there. We will also do some tread widening along the open slope area adjacent to the red bridge on the north side trail where it sluffed in this spring.  For tools, a rake and shovel would be good.  Polaskis will be provided.

Let's meet at the New Denver highway trailhead.