2012 Digging

Well, the summer sort of faded without a bang. Rain, busyness, and sundry other pieces left the back end of 2011 trail season here pretty dull. Frankly, building and maintaining trails is just a lot of work and takes a lot of time. Anyone who has had a hand in doing this thing we call trails knows it. I have begun going back to begin the process of preparing for next year. Talk of a new, bigger, main straight line and some revision to older, smaller stuff has begun to yield some fruit. Whether any of this actually takes shape is yet to be seen.

First Fruits

Well the first runs have officially been had for the season. A couple guys took a few runs through the old mains and Surf's Up Saturday and Sunday in spite of some remaining dampness. Much work remains to be done but thus far things are looking to turn out pretty swell.


Matt H. doing his thing.

THIS JUST IN...

Trails are hoppin.

Steve

I should also post this more recent pic of the third berm in Surfs Up. Steve has been stacking on this thing like crazy.

Kane Lane

Long overdue photo update. A bunch of people have been getting out consistently over the past few weeks and things are starting to pop up. Much of this initial work has been going into some smaller set-up stuff that leads into the old main line and also is opening up a couple doors for new lines. Notable additions include Steve/Rick/Jon's triple berm setup in the beginning of what is being called Surfs Up and the Kane Lane, named after the inspiration of Rick. It provides a straight lip into the old main line.

What follows are a few pics from the past week.

Vincent Perraud

Great slide show of an Austin winter by Vincent Perraud here:
http://www.thediggest.com/blog/exclusif/summer-in-austin-by-vincent-perraud/

Shooting Film in a Digital Age

The Quarryville Library recently had a photo contest which reportedly received an unexpectedly low amount of entries. Due to timing issues I was unable to submit my Lancaster County related image, however, above is the image that I was going to enter. I shot this picture of a field about 3 miles south of Green Tree on 896 using a $40 camera with a plastic lens on film. To find out more about the Holga (the previously named camera), see the lomography site (http://microsites.lomography.com/holga/) and wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holga).

Spring Cleaning

The spring digging has officially begun on the east coast and we have been no exception. A bit of work has gone down over the past week which has resulted in the start of a new line and the consequential rerouting of another line. Steve has definitely been putting in the most work. I will hopefully get a few pics up here soon...