Picturing the trail
Things are getting back to normal here after Thanksgiving — as normal as life around here can be as the Christmas season ramps up. I’m watching my calendar fill up for the next several weeks. It brings up that tense feeling as I see different responsibilities and my training collide!
I’m still enjoying the thoughts of what I’ll do with the new trail I’ve started building back in the swamp. I went out in the rain on Sunday and took a few pictures. I’m including them here.
The entry into the trail
There is a cool walking bridge my dad built sometime ago that leads into the trail area. It has grape vines growing over it. During the spring it has new leaves and looks like a portal to a different world.
The mounds of dirt that should make the trail interesting
In the above picture you should be able to see three mounds of dirt that have been there since the ditch the right was first dug. They are well packed and allow you to ride a short serpentine pattern up and over them. Not sure that moss will last very long once the knobbys get there.
Here you can see the type of woods containing the trail
Don’t let the above scene fool you! While there are large portions of the wooded area that are open like this, there are also large sections with lots of undergrowth and briers. To the left of this shot is an area that the trail turns toward. I had to have a machete to cut through it.
The drainage ditch
The drainage ditch is what makes the fun moguls, but it also is something I have to get across to get to the larger section of the woods. My plan is to build a narrow ladder bridge over it. Then the trail will follow the ditch — you can see where I plan to go on the other side heading to the left top of the picture.
Sure hope all the fun won’t be in the building of it! I’m sure once I get a bike out on it, I’ll have to make some adjustments. I also hope to put more challenges into the larger loop. This is going to take me a while, but hopefully years from now my kids will enjoy mountain biking at grandma’s!
Tags: Mountain Biking, Trail Building
