Well I definitely dropped off the radar there.. It has been a busy summer but I'll try to recap the summer as best as I can and make more of an effort to keep this blog updated.
Once the snow melted it was time to wrap it up. What a great winter it was! The snow never really melted all winter as it stayed cold and powdery for so many weeks...
Here is Jay, Ted and Josh spooling the rope up at the bottom of the big tow.
It was a little sketchy driving the tractor and mini-trailer at the bottom of the tow given how tight the space was and the uneven ground. At some point I should grade it out a bit. Other than that we were able to get the rope down with ease.
Spring always brings excitement towards biking and new trails. Galen got his first strider bike and I think it's safe to say he was hooked.
We spent a lot of evenings after work benching in a new short single track trail loop right behind the house. We would bench anywhere from 5' to 15' of tread a night. Galen was really into the digging too.
Galen and his friend Alice checking out the new trail that they named after our dog - "Tappy Trail"
I brought a load of lumber, PT base plates and cinder blocks with the intention that we would build Roxy a shelter over the course of the summer. Well... everything still looks the same at this point. We'll get there... next year perhaps.
We took advantage of late spring warm weather to wax up the skis for storage.
One morning I caught Galen sneaking out on his own for a ride. He figured out how to put his red boots on by himself. In case you're wondering his favorite color is red.
We also made a lot of headway on a short new singletrack trail called Rochester Gap Trail. The trail is being built by RASTA members and a summer Intern. It's only 0.3 miles long but it slowly climbs up to a pretty incredible 180 degree view overlooking the gap. The trailhead is open for public use and is located across the road from the start of Hooper Hollow Rd. RASTA hopes this will be the beginning of many more miles of single track trails in the area.
Here is Josh and our summer intern at the viewpoint. Graham spent most of his summer working on the trail and did a great job!
We also built a pump track in the front yard. We had extra dirt to work with as we finally got our lower field stumped. We put a lot of hours on the tractor all summer. The box scraper came in handy as we graded the field. There were a lot of rocks too so time was spent picking rocks out of the field.
Here is the pump track during its beginings
Over the course of the summer we kept modifyingbit and adding inner loop options.
