Sometime in the spring of 2013 a rock slide blocked the Middle Fork road about one mile before the Hardscrabble trailhead. As explained in the linked post, the USFS is committed to keeping a 40″ wide path open. So on September 18, 2013 a Forest Service crew spent a full day blasting the bigger rocks and rolling the smaller ones to clear the rock slide. This movie was made with two cameras mounted near the the blast site with additional audio edited in from the radios used to coordinate the closing of the trail for safety concerns.

Before. Tarps covered previously drilled holes drilled in large rocks

Placing explosives and packing mud

Packing mud over holes

Attaching detonation cord

Pouring ANFO prills into garbage bags

ANFO/emulex charges sitting on top of smaller rocks

Shredded tree from second blast

After, a cleared trail