Tillimook State
Forest, BONE CRUSHER |
ZUKIWORLD
Travels To The TSF OHV Park To Tackle a New Extreme Trail. |
Story/Editor:
Eric Bewley Photo: Sara Bewley |
TSF, OR. —ZUKIWORLD travels
to the Tillimook State Forest OHV park to tackle the newest, latest, and greatest trail to
be built by the state and some local volunteers. The trail is called 'Bone Crusher' and
that is for good reason. This is one of the hardest trails we've ever run and is sure to
get better and better as time and travel occurs.
We met up with Keith Willison
from Vancouver Washington early on a beautiful Saturday morning with the express intent of
being the first to run the third new leg of four that will eventually complete the Bone
Crusher Trail System. I call it that because the planners have ingeniously formed a plan
that creates two trails side by side so that when someone gets completely blown up in the
trail, the trail is not closed. We had spoken with Brush
Buster member Roger Christal earlier about opening the trail and running it. He and a
handful of other volunteers have been working with the Oregon Department Of Forestry's Ian
Caldwell to build this trail.
| We arrived to the sounds of whistling. Roger was
already on the trail clearing brush and debris. He yelled up to us to bring down his chain
saw so we could remove the last of the deadfall blocking the trail. We quickly removed the
last dead tree, walked the trail with Roger, and with a deep breath, began to traverse our
way down through the Samurai sized boulders on this virgin trail. |
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Below is a sampling of the photos
taken. The trail is not easily narrated. So, we will let the pictures do the talking. If
you are close to the NorthWest, we would encourage you to reserve some time to do this
trail next year. It is extremely enjoyable.
  
   
  
   
  
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