Monday, April 14, 2008

construction in the woods

sunday morning with kim at artiscape i decided to take a break from the office and head out to our local mountain biking trails for a trail maintenance day to finish a very very long board walk with a few rollers thrown in for fun...there are 2 mtb trails at alum creek both approx. 6 miles long - here we are working on phase 1 the older of the trails. The trails are maintained by the Central Ohio Mountain Bike Organization. Phase 1 lacks a lot of man made structures which is good for its intended purposed; however, this section goes through an exposed meadow which does not dry out and damage and erosion are maintenance nightmares and bad for the land - the solution was to provide a boardwalk above the trail to allow for dry riding and to minimize damage to the area. Here we are mid construction of the rollers...

and then the finished section:

3 comments:

dogfaeriex5 said...

very nice job!! very impressive but i would never ride over it....
xo

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Ellen Lyn said...

Wow, that's pretty cool....
I've never seen a path like that before! But I don't get out on my mountain bike too much! ;-)
Neato!