Molten Core And Spa Treatments

Not wanting to subject volunteers to heat exhaustion, heat stroke, or death by sweat, I cancelled the Tuesday evening dig session. However, I did not take the night off. I met Atom in the park for some planning stuff.

You know Atom - the dude who has had the bad judgment to schedule his wedding on September fourth (4th). Who schedules a fricking wedding on a Sunday?!? Yes, I was invited and no, I’m not attending. Why? Not because it’s on a Sunday. But because it is on a particular Sunday. The Sunday of the annual Dakota Five-Oh mountain bike race – which I am attending and racing in. Dumb ass. But, I digress…..

Atom and I snooped around the park some. Most notably we planned where the remaining trail is going to go. In addition, we took some measurements. I’m planning on meeting that crazy MinusCar fellow on Thursday evening for some lumber buying. That crazy MinusCar fellow and I need to buy stuff together because we setup the F.A.S.T. checking account to require two signatures – to insure no one (1) person absconds with the funds to buy liquor and / or porn. To do that, two (2) dudes would need to be in cahoots which we’ve deemed not likely because we could never find two (2) dudes who could agree on which liquor to buy.

Specifically, we’re buying the wood necessary for the wood bridge and the accompanying board walk. We will need, but are not buying yet, wood for the wood berm at the bottom of the second hill’s tight corner and the wood necessary for some boardwalk on a low lying area on the west side of the park.

I need to finish my design of the berm. I can’t do that until Atom and I measure it. Once that is complete I can put together a materials list and then the wood may be obtained. I have a pretty good idea on how this should work. Dimensions are critical, however.

Working in the park on these hot days and evenings is akin to a combination gym workout and spa treatment. Let me expand your mind.

Digging trails with hand tools is the gym workout. After a weekend of digging in the park my deltoids and latissimus dorsi are fully fatigued and worked. If the side slope of the hill I’m working on is severe enough, my quadriceps get worked, too!

With the ninety plus (90+) degree heat and high humidity, it is exactly like being in a sauna. Why pay money to go to a spa or a sauna when you could have it by working with us in the park?

And, we don’t just offer a sauna-like environment. No! We offer a mud bath, too. When a dude is digging trail getting quite sweaty it is not evaporating away. The dew point of the ambient air is too high for that. So, the sweat just accumulates on your skin. Get a little crazy with the digging tools and dirt gets sprinkled, liberally, on your exposed skin. The combination of the sweat and dirt make for a perfect mud bath.

But, we don’t stop there. We have bugs. What bugs? The good kind! Mosquitoes! Let them light on your exposed, sweaty, and muddy person and then smoosh them! Protein added to the mud bath! Mosquitoes can’t get to the clothing covered areas? No worries! We’ve got wood ticks for that! All you have to do is have one (1) wood tick found on your person and you’ll get the heebie jeebies as you’ll feel them crawling all over you even though they’re not really there!

So, save on the gym membership and spa treatments. Come dig trail with us! As you can see, we’ve got it all!

Ride On.