Red Loop Mowed! Corn trails cleared

[davemagill]

Scull and Magill ran the new brush hog around the red loop on 8/12 (6 days after Darren's unfortunate encounter with his own blood) and it is now open! No tall weeds or prickers. At least for a month or so, so check it out again. This trail has four stream crossings and the most technically challenging short hills in the park.

Kudos to our friend Gary Frank. While mowing the trail, I heard a bad thunk, and the mower Scull was running stopped. I had images of Scull and Magill staring lamely at the now immobile self-powered mower. But Gary Frank, Mr. Fixit, magically arrived down the red loop at exactly that moment! I mean exactly! It was like making a wish and there it is! In five minutes Gary had diagnosed the hand switch, spotted the knocked-off belt, removed and examined it (it was hanging on by a thread), memorized its serial number, and reinstalled the belt and got us on our way!

Also from 8/12 check out three yellow loop reroutes through the corn. We seriously cleaned up the upper two. They are all cleared with least an 18 inch part free from corn stalks. These are the new permanent alignments up out of the spring-time mud.

[jabberwocky]

Scull and Magill ran the new brush hog around the red loop on 8/12 (6 days after Darren's unfortunate encounter with his own blood) and it is now open! No tall weeds or prickers. At least for a month or so, so check it out again. This trail has four stream crossings and the most technically challenging short hills in the park. Neat! I haven't even tried the red since last summer when it was so overgrown that the trail totally disappeared into the brush a half mile in. Hopefully it will stay ridable long enough for me to get out there and ride it again, its a fun little out and back.
Also from 8/12 check out three yellow loop reroutes through the corn. We seriously cleaned up the upper two. They are all cleared with least an 18 inch part free from corn stalks. These are the new permanent alignments up out of the spring-time mud.I rode two of these last week. So they are going to be the permanent reroute? The one by the cell tower skips the muddy portion of trail near there, but I wasn't sure what the other two were bypassing.

[davemagill]

The upper two reroutes on the yellow loop bypass two sections that get muddy in the late fall and early spring. they are not as bad as the section near the cell tower, but can stay muddy well over a month past the rest of the trail.

I think the reroutes have turns that are a little too sharp and slow, but these will mellow out after the corn is harvested and the permanent alignment will develop.

[redneckp3ngu1n]

Rode them yesterday. The red loop still has a lot of trail litter on the trail and sucks your energy like you where riding through grass but it isnt overgrown anymore. I like the three rerouts. I happen to like the twistyness of them and hope they dont mellow out too much. The trail is very dusty and could use alittle rain now.