Well, seems that my calling for trail work is with a rake.
Three guys ahead of me pruning away and me sweeping it all
off to the side behind them. A jovial group of guys to
work with. One was 17, another was in his mid 20's, the
other in his 30's and me the old guy at 41. Still we all
shared a common interest and conversation wasn't lacking
whilst we worked.
It was funny at the start when we were getting instructions.
We were told to break up into two groups that would head off
in opposite directions. Our group was given the proposed
route first, and we kept seeing the bosses finger moving
along the trail, and moving, and moving, and moving, until
at one point one of us questioned "at what point do we run
into the other group coming towards us???" His finger had
already gotten about 4/5 of the way around the
course...<grin>. There was a good chuckle all round,
especially from the other group, and we headed on our way.
Mosquitoes. We needn't have worried about the sunscreen, but
the clouds of mosquitoes were something else entirely! We
were literally drenched in a cornucopia of DEET containing
products. (Good thing none of us smoked)
We went through a couple of sections that I'd cleared a
couple of weeks earlier, and I was pleased that not much
extra work was required. Though I did notice that racer
types don't like ANY little twigs hanging down out into the
open... All the while I thought the chance of the odd little
clunk on the head was reason to keep more alert whilst out
riding... but what do I know?
After about two hours I was getting done in so I headed back
to the chalet and had some lunch with the guy that was doing
the mowing. Those poor racers are gonna be doing most of
their descending on the hardpack, and their climbing on the
mowed grass clippings (brutal).
After that work was done they were heading out on a ride,
whereas I headed back into town. I'm assuming they all
enjoyed the fruits of their labour...
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- Rog
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