April2005

Trail Reports - April 2005

Illegal camp set up in plain view from C street at 19th. Southwest side of c and 19th. I don't know if alcohol is involved or not. However the camp should not be set up there under any circumstances. Please have the occupants cited and evicted. 30 April 2005 emailed APD and Community Work Service
4/28/05 Coastal Trail - Downtown to Earthquake Park, 6-7 PM Very busy on the Coastal Trail. The cracks in the pavement where the hill is eroding (between Elderberry Park and Westchester Lagoon) have gotten worse over the winter. These were marked last year with orange warning paint, but they are hazardous now and this area should be repaired as soon as possible. On the positive side, I did not see a single dog off the leash.
Heavy duty graffiti. A Street /Chester Creek trail underpass. 4/2705. Phoned into graffiti busters
The trash cans on the short segment from Campbell Creek to 15th Avenue are all overfull!Campbell emailed maintenance
Creek Trail - 4/26/05 Observed one teen male riding a motorized scooter from Taku Lake area to the new skateboard park just south of Taku lake. Lots of people out on the trail, including at least 4 walking unleashed dogs. The recent improvements at Taku Lake are great!
Campbell Creek from Dimond to Dowling. Surface is excellent. Could use an early season sweeping to clean leaves and shoulder debris from surface. Ice in tunnel under Arctic. Mud under Minnesota. Taku Lake area and trail is a vast improvement as result of park construction project.
Serious vulgar graffiti in the tunnel under Arctic Blvd on the Campbell Creek trail. Light are also damaged in the same tunnel. 4/25/2005 Phoned into graffiti busters
As a result of the last wind storm there are many broken trees scattered across the the trail around Forsyth Park on Birch Road. One bench in the playground area is broken (missing planks on the seat)
Vandalism in Birch Park on Birch Road/South Anchorage: The newly established fence between horse arena and playground was destroyed. The fence was cut of from the postings. It appears now that a provisional repair was done.
I rode Chester Creek Trail tonight prior to the WOMBATS group ride. I noted a group of 4 Native male adults on the trail at Valley of the Moon Park. They were drunk and drinking in public. I advised the WOMBATS of this group when I met them at the parking lot at Westchester. It looks like a trash pick-up is in progress along the trail - there are multiple trash bags (BP logo) along the trail near the Sullivan arena that need to be picked up and disposed of.
12 April 2005 RASPBERRY Road trail extension from Minnesota to Kincaid Park. Trail is clear and dry with two easily navigated icy patches . Will need sweeping to remove winter cinder residue. Otherwise no significant maintenance or safety issues.
This regards the stairs between 15th Avenue and A Street. Just east of the landing is a real mess of beer cans and bottles and lots of other paper junk. I think that section of the woods is cleaned out once or twice a year, but possibly the liquor clean up people could clear just the area off the landing sooner. Thanks.
Just disappointed today to take a 2-3 mile walk with a friends and each of our dogs and to run into three groups of "unpleasant" people within an hour! First group on Chester Creek trail east of Valley of the Moon - three people (two men and one woman) who looked as though they had been in a bar fight) sitting on the side of the trail, just about 10 feet from the pavement. Second group of two, drinking quart size bottles of beer, on the paved section going up the hill to Rogers Park from the Gambell Street park (two men, early thirties). Third group, two people on the A Street stairs, at the lower platform - undesirable enough that we changed our route and went further up A Street. Wish there could be some better surveillance and that these people could be asked to move!