Monday, September 3, 2012

Labor Day

Another gloomy, seriously high humidity day, but we chose to ride! We wanted to stay close to the trailer or some kind of shelter, so we chose the Ag Park! Our old stomping grounds, a great stand-by. We spent most of the time 'laboring' with unkempt trails.

Some of the trails have fallen into disuse, but the June 29th derecho also left its mark in the woods. The humidity was enough to flatten you to the ground.

When we boarded the boys on the edge of this park we had made so many trails but no one would use them, just us. When we bought the farm there was no one at Millhaven that rode to the water fall or the McDonald's at the AirPark or Redland Middle School. All those trails are now lost to vegetation growth and downed trees. There is so much park land not utilized, it is a crying shame. At one time we had mapped out 12 hours of riding, you couldn't ride it all in one day, now sadly lost to disuse and obstructions.



There are so many other destinations we ride that we can't devote time/energy to keeping trails that only the two of us will sometimes use.

Department of Natural Resources wants everybody to log in their hours of volunteer trail maintenance, but 'people's choice' trails don't count, only park-sanctioned trails, like the Belgian Loop; the hours we spent laboring on these trails don't count.

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