Monday, November 10, 2008

Birth of a trail

Sam and I took about 4 hours on Sunday and walked the proposed trail line for Phase IV of the Itusi Trail at Lake Norman State Park. Our group/shop has been involved in building this trail for 8 years now and, as implied above, this next section will be the fourth "phase" of the trail. It is always exciting to watch the trail progress through the different stages: lay out, corridor clearing, grubbing, grooming and finally riding (saving the best for last). I tried to take some photos of the area before the trail and will hopefully be able to go out and take pictures of the same area after the trail is constructed.

Interesting ravine that we may be able to use for trail:
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Looks like the bird lost this battle:
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Nice view of the lake from the trail:
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If this was an art exhibit, this would be "leaf on Water":
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Old homestead foundation stones:
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The Holly bushes are one of the few things that are still green:
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Park boundary at the waters edge:
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About the only "wild life" we saw all day:
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