Nonsense: Fairland Part Deux

Last weekend, we had wonderful weather here in Laurel, and this Saturday was living up to the same standard. I could not bear to, again, watch the sun rise and set from the discomfort of my computer chair while working on lengthy college research papers. So, I ventured out at the prompting of another email from Austin Steo, to break dirt with my local mountain bike brethern.

Austin, looking rather charming with his pulaski (pick).
Photograph by Chuck Bolte.

Austin, Andy, and I met at high noon at the Storm Water Demonstration building in Fairland Park and carted our trail tools into the eastern (or was it southern?) part of the trail system. The particular section was a familiar one, because Austin has been working for weeks to finish bench cutting in the quarter mile to one half mile section of trail.

Bikes are jumping in Andy's head.
Photograph by Austin Steo.

We three labored for three hours under beautiful clear blue skies and successfully bench cut an Andy-estimated 70 feet of trail. It looked great.

Austin estimates that another two hours of hard labor from two to three hardcore trail maintainers will result in the completion of the south/east side rollercoaster of a trial section.