Earlier in the week, Mark and his mustache were out on a ride and noted a large oak tree that had broke off several feet up (this was due to Sudden Oak Death) and was blocking a section of trail. A few days later he and a group of friends were back running shuttles on that same trail when they did what so many of us do on a daily basis and set forth to clean up the fallen and tangled piece of tree. This is where things turned for the worst.
Mark is no stranger to moving trees and cleaning up the trails and neither are his friends. In a pretty standard move they heaved up the portion of tree and started to push it over to the low side of the trail. That is when they heard … More