Trail Digger Blues

I don’t know if it was the weather (actually not that bad), the Father’s Day thing (I wished mine one), or less than enthused volunteers, but, I seem to be doing an awful lot of trail digging solo. Contrary to what you parents told you as a kid, there is no trail digging fairy.

Last Thursday evening there was a scheduled dig session. I was the only one (1) digging. Saturday morning’s session had me and one (1) other digger. Saturday afternoon’s session was just me. And Sunday’s session was me and one (1) other digger. Despite the lack of warm bodies much was done.

I’m not sure what people are thinking. Maybe they are scared of the mosquitoes. I don’t know why, we’ve got bug spray that does a wonderful job keeping them at bay. Maybe they have an unnatural fear of sweating. Well, no one said manual labor was anything less than manual labor. What do people think, trails dig themselves?

Tomorrow night I’m planning on speaking at the first (1st) public input meeting for the proposed new Blood Run State Park. I plan to propose the park should have a huge amount of singletrack. I plan to propose, that in order to keep things as inexpensive to taxpayers as possible, the singletrack be IMBA designed and Falls Area SingleTrack built. Now I’m not so sure I should say anything. What if the State is all for my proposal and there are no volunteers to help out? To be safe, I shall propose a majority of the trail be machine dug. It would be much quicker and I know I can count on me to show up and run the machine.

Ride On.