I started from the trailhead on the east side of Big Meadow (7960') and headed to Manter Meadow.
This, and other photos of blowdowns across the trail, will be included in my customary trail report to the Forest Service to help with trail maintenance.
I encountered a few sections of trail getting brushy as I hiked up to ...
... the Domeland Wilderness boundary on the ridge (8280').
As I headed down toward Manter Meadow, there were a few blowdowns across the trail in the thickly forested area.
This was the first blowdown as I hike around the north end of Manter Meadow, ...
... through the burn area.
I camped four nights near the north end of Manter Meadow (7200').
Early on my first morning there, I took a walk south along the east side of Manter Meadow, ...
and soon passed by the camp of a volunteer trail crew from Indiana. They were seminarians studying to be catholic priests and in the Domeland for eight days of working on the Woodpecker and Domeland Trails. (More on that later!)
More of Manter Meadow early on my first morning.
After breakfast, I headed up and north on the Woodpecker Trail with constant views of cool rock formations, ...
... both far, and ...
... near, and ...
far, usually looking over the burn area.
Soon after turning east on the Domeland Trail and heading up to the final ridge (7900'), I came across the volunteer trail crew struggling with one of several messy trail blockages. Here, still struggling to move it, but then ...
... celebrating a newly opened section of trail.
I continued down (east) on the Domeland Trail.
While hiking down the trial, I spotted this boulder perched up on the ridge. This is the zoomed in shot, while ...
... this is the regular shot of it sitting up there.
A ways after hiking down past this dome, I could no longer find the trail when it went through a lot of high and thick brush. (More on that later!) I headed back up the trail and ...
... found some of the trail crew trying to remove a blowdown that had fallen on a long section of trail.
