More Tow line clearing..

Jay and I have been making steady progress on the rope tow.  We made a trail for Jay's 4 wheeler to climb up to the top of the ridge from the house on the south side.  We needed to find a way to haul the (heavy) bull wheel up to the top and Jay figured his 4-wheeler would be perfect.  The new trail more or less follows what was going to be the proposed tower access road - wait, tower road?  It's a long story.. At this point the tower is not going to happen due to costs associated with getting power up the ridge.  Long story short 2 years ago VELCO was seriously considering the idea of putting up a public safety tower on our ridge.  They spent a lot of time and $ to survey our property and they even engineered proposed site plans.  On the flip side we got a free property survey and a well defined "best" route up to the ridge that the engineer determined based on the hill slope etc.

We cut the trail pretty quickly as we didnt need to cut any big trees etc.  Here is Jay with his 4 wheeler.

We made good progress and had a little extra time to clear brush from the tow line before calling it a day.