Sunday: 6 January 2013
January 1 was the last day of deer hunting season, and that means our 20 acres to the west is now available for our use. (Folks will recall that we let the hunting club use that part of the property from mid September through, well, Tuesday.)
So I’ve been enjoying the walks which cover some steep hills and visit two “decks” or bluffs. All of this can easily take up two miles of walking. Mostly though, I now can walk down (or up, as in this case) Goulding Creek. Since we’ve had a surplus of rain in the last month, the creek looks pretty good. We’ll have to have a lot of rain over several days to actually get a good torrent down the creek. This last month has just restored it to some resemblance of normalcy.
I noted what looked like a fresh treefall over the access road to the first deck. It’s a medium size dead loblolly pine of the sort that falls everywhere around here. No surprises. This must have happened in the last week because otherwise it would have been quickly removed by the hunting club manager.
No problem for us - the access road is not mostly owned nor ever used by us. The property line runs over the last couple hundred feet of it, but the vast length that we do not own (including this tree) begins at a gated and locked entrance on Wolfskin Road, pretty close to our fire station, actually.
Besides just getting a chance to enjoy the extra walking distance, it’s also nice to see that the hunting club members left things just as they found them. For the third year in a row, no trash, access roads with little or no traffic damage, not even at the decks where there is a just barely visible impromptu cul de sac. That’s how we were hoping things would be treated, and that’s how it continues to work out.
( This post from early March last year maps out the area I’m talking about, the “decks,” and the routes I typically take. There are also some other nice photos.)
So I’ve been enjoying the walks which cover some steep hills and visit two “decks” or bluffs. All of this can easily take up two miles of walking. Mostly though, I now can walk down (or up, as in this case) Goulding Creek. Since we’ve had a surplus of rain in the last month, the creek looks pretty good. We’ll have to have a lot of rain over several days to actually get a good torrent down the creek. This last month has just restored it to some resemblance of normalcy.
I noted what looked like a fresh treefall over the access road to the first deck. It’s a medium size dead loblolly pine of the sort that falls everywhere around here. No surprises. This must have happened in the last week because otherwise it would have been quickly removed by the hunting club manager.
No problem for us - the access road is not mostly owned nor ever used by us. The property line runs over the last couple hundred feet of it, but the vast length that we do not own (including this tree) begins at a gated and locked entrance on Wolfskin Road, pretty close to our fire station, actually.
Besides just getting a chance to enjoy the extra walking distance, it’s also nice to see that the hunting club members left things just as they found them. For the third year in a row, no trash, access roads with little or no traffic damage, not even at the decks where there is a just barely visible impromptu cul de sac. That’s how we were hoping things would be treated, and that’s how it continues to work out.
( This post from early March last year maps out the area I’m talking about, the “decks,” and the routes I typically take. There are also some other nice photos.)
