Showtime, the Three Musketeers, Mastodon, Alligator, and Shitzy round out the list, the last of the names I remember.
#Fill me up buttercup public domain series
The macho, male names of our early rocks led to a series of less macho names, Howard and Jeffrey, then Fabio (very handsome), then Buttercup, Jewel, and Pearl. Bigeasy was surprisingly painless and easy to move. P.I.T.A. For instance, Clancy (a big one fit snugly between Elton and John) was named after a forest service guy who had his macho turned up to eleven. Names were usually descriptive, but sometimes random. Basically, if you found the rock and spent enough time wrestling with it, if it was big enough and gravity-enfused enough, then it became ‘your’ rock and you got to choose a name for it. You do develop a good sense for the shape and size of each rock as you roll or skid it through the landscape, though. It was frustrating to have people constantly walking through our work site, but then, on the other hand, I’ve never had so many people thank me for anything I was doing.
I’d never worked on such a popular trail. Every day, we would have entire high school and college teams run through our work site, forty or fifty runners at a time, once on their way up and then again on their way back down an hour or two later. Arrowhead Lake is only a mile and a half in, with a fifteen foot high rock to jump from (unbelievably refreshing after a day of moving rock, jump at your own discretion), and then Skelton Lake’s another mile and Barney Lake’s another mile after that.įor some reason, this trail somehow became THE TRAIL for cross-country running teams from Los Angeles. The first section is a series of steep dusty switchbacks through lodgepole pine forest, but then you’re up in granite country the rest of the way to the pass. The trail to Duck Pass is one of the area’s quickest routes up into the high country, so it gets a ton of usage. For stock use, landings should be long enough to hold all four of the animal’s feet.’ These steps must be seated well to prevent them from being dislodged by traffic. The material used to provide the rise does double duty as a retaining structure when the landing consists of tamped fill. Or the step can be secured on the surface and fill used to form a landing behind it. This is usually the most stable arrangement. Each step can either be placed in an excavated footing and the material below the rise removed to form the landing of the next lower step. ‘Steps with landings are a bit harder to secure in place because the stairs do not overlap. This is particularly important as the rise of the step increases. The face of each step should not contain a batter that creates a “face run” of over 2 in (50 mm) from top to bottom. The edge of the step should be solid and durable. The top of the step (and landing) should be stable and provide secure footing. Almost all foot traffic descending the step will walk off the edge of the step. If the step is composed of something like a board on edge with fill behind it, then the traffic will step onto the landing.
This is where most traffic steps as it climbs. ‘The most important area of the step is usually in the run.
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