Week in Review

It has been a while since the last post. Where to start. Brad went to the Catty JAM over Memorial Day weekend and met up with the Cleveland and Chicago crew. He had a great time at Catty and got some riding in. He almost won one of the stems back that we donated for the prize raffle, but got some sweet Deluxe grips instead. On Sunday he made it to POSH with the crew and met some of the cool locals. He got some more riding in and got on the road. If you know Brad, then you know he is pumped on trails. Listening to him about his Catty / POSH experience, I would say he is 10X more pumped then normal.



At the Farmboy Trails, the locals were absent all Memorial Day weekend. Everyone was too busy as normal. Not sure who showed up and rode, but everything was left untarped to bake in the sun, then we got the down pours of rain. Not cool. It helped a couple of lips and landing, but in general just created more work for us. Rule of thumb for visitors: Make sure a local is present, un-tarp, water, ride, have a great time, water, re-tarp, pick-up your garbage and come back. If you are untarping stuff, please be carefull. Some of the tarps are getting staked down so you just need to fold them back over the lip or dank pad. If you start yanking and pulling on tarps like a gorilla you are creating more work. Don't assume someone is coming later in the day and will re-tarp everything. Leave the trails as you found them. Brad and me are focusing on getting new stuff built and don't have the time or desire to re-work stuff.



We are thinking about imposing a new trail rule on those that are showing up frequently and just riding. We are leaning towards a 5 wheel barrow minimum dig before riding. Think of it as going to the skatepark and paying your 5 to 10 dollars to ride for the day. I think 5 wheel barrows is an extremely good deal. From Saturday's and Sunday's digging session, Brad, Ben, Chevy, Chevy's girl Megan and me are paid up for the next couple of weeks. I'm not trying to make any of the slackers feel bad (maybe I am), but Megan did more digging yesterday afternoon then I have seen from the regulars. Not sure what to dig, when Brad or me are not there. Ask us and we will set you in the right direction.


No pictures from the last week or this weekend. My lap top hard drive might have died, so no old pictures either. I will get some next time out. Quick rundown of digging progress. Dinger put 6 loads of some of the best dirt that we have on the lip after the step-up in Main Line. I finished that lip Saturday and it looks great. I then added close to another foot to the step-up in Main Line and improved the tranny at the bottom of it where it goes below ground level. Saturday and Sunday saw the last landing in Main Line grow from a small pile to a man sized landing. Brad and me were doing wheel barrow trains to the new landing until Chevy and Megan showed up. I then started shaping up the landing as they continued to import dirt. A couple of more loads on front and backside should have it real close to size. Loads that were more sod were going to the berm after this landing and it is staking up nice also. All of the imported dirt is coming from the field where the mass excavation is taking place for the dip between the 4th landing and 5th set in Geronimo. Friday saw Dave and Cole stacking the 4th landing in Geronimo. Rain all weekend so no riding, but major digging progress.