Look What Happens

Look what happens when volunteers show up to dig. Amazingly, trail gets dug – and lots of it. Last Thursday evening and both Saturday sessions I had volunteers digging in the “North Forty,” as I call it. We were digging on the advanced loop on the hills. Trail was dug through the flat to “the climb,” up the climb, down the hill, up the next hill, and down the next hill. This probably means nothing to you if you were not there to see what I mean. What it means to me is that approximately fifty person (50%) of the east half of the advanced loop is complete.

We’ve other things going on in the park. For example, a big ass tree fell across the trail. Volunteer Rick is on the task and will come into the park this week, with chainsaw in tow, to remedy the situation.

Sunday’s session was spent fixing the three (3) problem corners on the first (1st) loop. I’m happy to report that one point nine (1.9) of the corners have been fixed. During Tuesday night’s session, we’ll fix the other one point one (1.1) corners. At that point, the first (1st) loop will be ninety nine percent (99%) complete.

To make the loop one hundred percent (100%) complete, we’ll do a walk through touching up a few things here and there. These will amount to leveling out humps that are too humpy and removing some the craters left by removed trees. Easy stuff, really.

Trail building is slowly building momentum. The volunteers are starting to show up again. I can see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel – and it is not a train. The push is on the complete this project.

Ride On.