Is there a Dr. in the house?

OK, maybe not the house, but there sure as hell was one in the foot hills of the coastal range today!

Dr. Jeremy Neal from Blaq Design out of Kent Ohio has been in town for a few days, he cam out to give me a hand at L.L. Stub Steward State Park. We got about 200' of new trail cut today.





Afterwords we headed over to Reheer's Camp instead of sitting rush hour traffic for two hours, I showed him the Gales Creek Trail, Then tried to find Ravens Ridge with no luck, after which we explored the logging roads looking for rumored secret freeride trails, Sad to say, we didn't find any thing, except a washed out road.
Over all a good day, we got a lot of new trail cut in some thick dead fall, got lost in the forest, and found a big hole in the road. Tomorrow I'm off to Sandy Ridge in the AM.

Off to Sandy Ridge in the A.M.
I have to say, from what I have heard, I'm looking forward to this.

On the tech side of Trail Building, I just want to show you this, it's called a The McLaski™ it is one of the best trail building tools I have ever used. The scraper is awsome for both scraping dirt and scraping bark off logs and dead fall your going to use for building features. The Axe is sweet for cutting roots that like to pop up in the benching that you just did with both the hoe and scraper, a lot of the other tools on this "7 in 1" are made for fire fighting, However, in the right hands, such as mine, you can find new way to use this all the time, The "Wildland Spanner Wrench" doubles as a beer bottle opener for the end of the day trail beers! The "Fire Rake" is good for pulling the Duff or Heather off the soil, it comes in handy to clean up you fire pit back at the camp site too! Weighing in at only 6lbs this is the only tool you'll need to take in to the woods! The only fall back is the price. The base model starts at $139.00! Here is a ling to see for your self mclaski.com for more info. So here what it comes down to, the McLeod and the Pulaski meet in a bar one night, 9 months later you'll have The McLaski.

FYI

Some of you may not know this, but I write electronic. Here is something I did with some other MTB riders back in Cleveland.

Courtesy Nothing impresses so much like Subaru Impreza WRX Sti

Pics from Stub

Just sitting there, saying "ues us, we want to be shore stunts!!" and we will!
Keep out, not open! But soon! One of the 1st Mountain Bike only trails in an Oregon state park!


Dave found a friend!

Pic from Black Rock

Here are some pic from 5-1-2010 at Black Rock.

Stump at Stub!

I had the task of pulling a stump out the side of the All Mountain Trail on the south side trail at L.L. "Stub" Steward State Park (try saying that 5 times fast!) not a very big one, but it was in deep for sure.
It took about 45mins to dig out under it and then cut the roots with an ax.
And that of course that destroyed the trail as I worked it out of the ground, so not wanting to have gaping hole in the trail, I had to head back to the Gator and get the McCloud and rebuild the trail and fix a few wet spots along the the way. I hate wet spots, they always form in the worst spots, like the part of the trail that you get your flow going and, SPLAT! slide, and your down! So I try to keep the trail free of wet spots the best I can.

I'm beat, I need a hot shower and cold beer! It was kind of cold out there today, It was starting to lightly snow as I was heading out of the woods!

Dakine Builders Pack!

I'm digging (no pun intended) this!

You can cary everything you need on you back, And I'm sure I can hook rhino on there some how as well. I think I just may go and order one next time I get payed! Now if it only had a beer cooler... Maybe not.

I'm heading out to Stub Steward State Park tomorrow AM to pull a stump out and redo some benching on the North side, I may take my bike and get a bike in too! If anyone in the grater PDX want to join me, I'll need to be at the Park by 10am!

I'll be out there till about 4PM, I really like what we have going on out there, the "XC/All Mountain" Trail should be fun, with not much climbing involved, and lots of flow. The freeride area will be a lot of fun as well, it's small, but I think that will work to it's own advantage. The smaller size will allow it be more of a social area, much like my old stomping ground in Cleveland at Ray's MTB, you can go do a run, come back up, hang out with your buddies, and the do another run. I know I'll be there a lot! See you on the Trails!