Punching It In

Road building continues in the woods.
I enjoy watching from a distance as the road is formed inch by inch across the flat benches that span between the heads of canyons.
My job is cleaning up the edges, trimming up limbs on the lower side with my saw-on-a-stick and using the small chain saw on the high side to cut the willowy hazelnuts, maples and small fir that would eventually lean into the road.
On this day, Mike told me that the road was roughed in enough for me to be able to follow him down the hill to our lower road.
It took several hours to get to that point and the road is still steeper in many spots than I would have preferred, but I did manage to get the Gator to the bottom of the hill with the new trail. Let’s just say it still needs a lot of work before it will be the optimal entrance and egress from the deep woods will be ready for steady travel.