Location: Bent Arrow trail, Topanga State Park Crew leader: Dave Edwards Summary: We met at 8:30 at the Marvin Braude Mulholland Gateway Park parking lot and drove into Topanga State Park to the Bent Arrow trailhead. We had a large turnout of 29 people consisting of the Trails Council, members of the Sierra Club Task Force, Cal State Channel Islands Trail Corps and others. We split up into several small groups. Most of the Sierra Club worked on restoring the trail at the site of a large washout while other Sierra Club member performed tread work by widening the trail in various locations. Another small group filled in a lengthy rut on the nearby Garapito trail. The primary work consisted of preparing a site for a large retaining wall which will be built utilizing large wooden planks. The existing wall was completely washed away by the recent rains. Lots of soil was removed to establish a foundation for the wall. This work will be ongoing with several more outings required to finish it. Once this wall is completed another slightly smaller one will be built just below it. We returned to the parking lot at 2:30 Crew size: 29 Hours worked: 6 Total hours: 174 Total feet of trail worked: 500