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Here, have a photo of the newest addition to the trails at River Bends: a log pile. This has been in place for a few days, but this afternoon I finished it off by adding another log to the front to make it more approachable. I also added more glue dirt to help keep it all together. Another view of the logpile (from the direction which it is typically ridden) can be seen here. At River Bends when the parks people cut downed trees from the two track, they tend to leave nicely maneuverable ~4′ pieces sitting in the woods along the trail. Finding a few fresh, non-rotted ones of these is trivial and they can easily be used to build solid log piles. For anything else I can find other fallen, dead trees and cut them to length with a handsaw.
This afternoon’s trailwork also included tweaking a corner to increase its radius (photo) and adjusting another to flow more smoothly to cut down on people overshooting the corner and washing out. Damage to both the trail surface and edge made it obvious that this was a common problem on these corners. Here is a helmet cam video of me washing out on the pictured corner and falling. Whoops.
