Three Rivers Photos - Building the Road

Three Rivers Photos Building the Road

July 19, 2004 - July 25, 2004

Building the road was an awesome experience!
This set of photos shows just the first week's worth of work... called 'pioneering' the road. Basically, that entails 'just' cutting through top layers, making it relatively level (note the operative word 'relatively'), crossing the ravine (which entails cutting the side down and building the bottom up), removing boulders the size of our Blazer, and removing both the buckbrush and the mighty oaks that must come down.
Our road maker has worked hard to design a road that keeps as many trees and natural features as possible. Even so, some of our beautiful oaks needed to be removed - as you'll see in some of the photos.
(As always, click on the photo for a larger size).

The Bulldozer	Discussing the road-to-be	Marking the road with Orange spray paint	The long hike up the ravine
First Scoop	These boulders are child's play for this dozer!	The ravine before the road	The first rock rolls down
1st rock lands in the bottom (next to the tree)	Rocks are filling the ravine	First cut down the ravine (note the location of the large rock with the moss on the right side	Taking a tree down
The tree has fallen	New view down the ravine (note the location of the large rock with the moss on the right side)	Another view down the ravine (note the large boulder being pushed down)	Road into the ravine
End of the day	Starting up the other side	The mighty oak	Teetering over the top
Up and over	The mighty oak must fall	The oak is down	Meadow where road is going next
Ravine Road	Fire Watch	Homesite view to the north east
Our nearest neighbor	Closer view


Taking a break, now that it's done!