{"id":2942,"date":"2010-11-16T20:58:41","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T01:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/?p=2942"},"modified":"2010-11-16T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T02:04:09","slug":"seasonal-loops-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/seasonal-loops-complete\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasonal Loops Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<table cellpadding=1>\n<tr>\n<td bgcolor=\"black\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/v\/travel\/local_places\/biking\/PB151135.jpg.html?g2_imageViewsIndex=2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/gallery\/d\/95495-2\/PB151135.jpg\" height=480 width=640 border=0 title=\"Intersection between loops 2 and 3 in the Seasonal Loops at River Bends just as the sun is setting.\"><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Having two weeks off of work is giving me plenty of time to get things done. Since the weather has been nice I&#8217;ve put off things around the house and set to work on the trails at <a href=\"www.shelbyparksandrecreation.org\/RBPInfoMap.html\">River Bends<\/a>, including a small trail day on Saturday, riding it on Sunday, and doing some work (both with Danielle and alone) yesterday and today. After all of this <a href=\"http:\/\/mmba.org\/library\/Advocacy\/Trails\/Metro%20North\/MMBA%20River%20Bends%20Trail%20Proposal%20-%20Phase%20Two%20and%20Three.pdf\">Phase 3 of the trail project at River Bends<\/a> is complete. There is now 4.9 miles of ridable, maintained, and park-approved dirt trails in the park with 3.2 miles of that being proper <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Single_track_(mountain_biking)\">single track<\/a>. A year ago there was only 1.7 miles of two track and a handful of scattered, deadfall-strewn bandit single track.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve completed the changes to the second version of the River Bends map (<a href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/river-bends-park-trail-map\/\">previous version<\/a>) which shows the seasonal loops as three discreet loops and illustrates how they can be ridden consecutively. Based on Sunday&#8217;s ride I also added a second entrance to the single track which makes it more accessible when the two track is used as a return trail. Now one won&#8217;t have to partially descend a steep, gravely hill and make a 100\u00b0 left turn into the hill-climbing switchbacks at the start of the single track; they can instead descend a short hill and enter the single track a hundred feet or so uphill.<\/p>\n<p>While permanent trail signage is being handled as part of an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eagle_Scout_(Boy_Scouts_of_America)\">Eagle Scout<\/a> project, I&#8217;m hoping to get some temporary signs in place which will mark the general trail route. I stopped by a local sign shop today and arranged for 50 signs made of corrugated yellow plastic with a black bicycle and space for an positionable arrow decal. These signs, along with the positionable arrows cost $1\/ea and should be available tomorrow. As long as the park approves it, I hope to nail these to trees or existing signposts along the route from the parking lot through the single track and back. Hopefully I&#8217;ll get the signs tomorrow and approval soon so I can place them, wrapping up everything I wanted to accomplish before the snow flies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having two weeks off of work is giving me plenty of time to get things done. Since the weather has been nice I&#8217;ve put off&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/2010\/11\/16\/seasonal-loops-complete\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Seasonal Loops Complete<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-outdoors","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2946,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions\/2946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nuxx.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}