@FitmanNJ
@fidodie
@woody
Got out to RV today and focused on Ridge, which I think is the official name of the trail in between the Eagle Trail and the phone booth. I set aside 3 hours to try and trim up the whole trail. In hindsight, that was a total pipe dream. I rode from Cushetunk up & over, then started out the trail, riding, then stopping to work, and so on. After about 2.5 hours and maybe a half mile, I rode out the rest of the trail and then took the gravel road back.
I see they have been out here and have put mile markers every half mile. I kinda like that they are putting in some effort here. Big improvement over the last park admin who seemed to not really care much about the trails.
There's a lot of trimming to do still. I probably got about 1/3 of the way to the phone booth before I had to give up and call it a day. As I rode out the trail I would say that the 2nd 3rd...how do I say this? The second "third" of the section - probably needs a weed whacker more than clippers. The last third really doesn't need much. Well, other than 2 reroutes to make the trail suck less. On that note, I have 2 reroutes in mind that I'll try to pitch to the park for next year.
In all I made it from the eagle sign to that huge tree that was sort of parallel to the trail, but was waiting to eventually impale someone. I cut that tree out and then more or less called it a day. While the trail was passable I think it was better to drop it and get it out of the trail.
I also spent a lot of time on that shitty excuse for a troll bridge that has formed over the past few years. I cut it up and made a proper set of logs to ride. The uneven logs and the rock middle off the side of the trail wasn't really a good trail feature. I know some people may say that I am dumbing down the trail but my aim here is to make this less of an expert park and more accessible to anyone who goes out there. The park is hard enough as-is. In the end I spent a lot of time with the hand saw cutting crap out today. But I think it makes the place better.
This was specifically done for
@pooriggy