Well...

It stopped raining! Finley! Sorry I haven't been around to update as of late, there isn't much to report with all the rain we have been getting here in the Portland area. But today I got some stuff done, I got some much much needed maps from Steve Kruger at L.L. Stub Steward State Park.


I then headed out to the MTB Zone Trail Head to bench out the crossing on Cattywomper Way,
If you don't know what benching is, your in luck I jacked this from IMBA site!



The ground I had to cut was at one point a logging road, so the dirt and soil is more like like that of clay and old dried cookie dough, but a good 3 hours of work I got it looking good!
Before:
After:
Sorry about the blurry pic, my phone camera isn't so good...

Tomorrow I'll be heading down to the south side and put the maps to good use and scout out the creek crossing, it's in a very steep area and will be a real challenge to get from the creek up to the the trails on both sides.

In other news, I'm kind of bummed, I had a Mclaskie snap on me! Bogus I tell you! The head is still good, how ever, there is no way to replace the handle on such an occasion, so now what?


That's a $139.00 walking stick!