Finally....the trails are the best I've ridden in three years.  They're dried except for the worst crossings still have some mud but most of the worst places you can find a way around it.

"Friends of Shimek" have been mowing & cleaning the campgrounds, painting, clearing trees and working on trails.  Some of the trails where the trees were bad and you couldn't get through without taking a hike, are now opened.  There is one you'll still have a go around in one area until we can reroute it.  Hopefully next month's clean up day project.

If you're wondering what happend to the stalls, it's a work in progress for them and Shimek in general.  The timbers they laid across the top were rottening and falling into the stalls so we took them down but most stalls are still usable.  We hope in the future to rebuild one completely in the lower campground and put new roofs on the other two. 

We'll be planning future fund raisers and hoping for donations towards materials & labor.  Any donations made to "Friends of Shimek" can only be used for the betterment of Shimek, won't go towards any state funds. 

If anyone would be interested in the Friends of Shimek e-mail list for future mailings on what's going on, workdays etc. you can e-mail Lora Conrad to request your e-mail address be added to the list at lpconrad@tctwb.com

It's great for us that they're finally letting us go in and work on trails.  In the past the wouldn't let us but with no funding for the trails, they're now letting us.  John Bryd our area forester has been great to work with.