Clearing Trails

Couple of full days of hard work clearing trails of trees downed in the ice storm. Beautiful days, high today was 60F. (Hi tomorrow 31F and low 14F).  There were several large impassable wind/ice falls of trees across trails. The last one today I found was by the old tornado tree by the NW12 post. A massive boxelder trunk had snapped and fallen on a more massive ~ 90 cm DBH decaying pecan snag. Combined the debris was too much to clear. I re-routed the trail north and moved the NW12 post fifteen feet north.
Other large wind/ice falls on the Two Pecan trail, the Barney Jct cutoff (Barney is missing), the NW Ponds trail at the East Pond, the E-W trail at the vines west of the Elm Bridge and a few others on the south end of the Tree Loop. I still need to check the northern rim trails.
At 5:20 walking southwest from the center of the Woods, making my way out, the setting sun through the forest was a pulsing brilliant beacon of molten gold.
I saw three deer heading east along the South Boundary Trail at sunset. Earlier this morning I saw four of the puppies at the center south entrance where someone has spread a bale of hay. Unfortunately I also saw a new adult dog, a yellow golden long-haired (?) retriever-sized dog moving west from the Beaver dam.
There was still a complete covering of ice in shaded portions of the Wash. At the Elm Bridge where there was no ice, there were a half dozen delicate aquatic flies busy skimming and circling above the water .. size of chironomids but not sure what they were.
The biggest cottonwood (one of two camera trees) had lost a massive canopy branch from the south side.