Wednesday Feb 27, 2008 - Unsurpassed View
Today we were able to complete the trail on south slope of the mountain that had been two wet to complete earlier. We had five traildogs working the deep cut that was necessary to complete the final switchback.
Tomorrow will be the last day of the dig for this spring. We have about 250 feet of tread to finish that will bring us to the parking area. We will have added five miles to the Vista trail that now has over sixteen miles of completed trail including spurs.
As we were hiking back to our vehicles in the warm sunshine we enjoyed the unsurpassed view of the blue waters of Lake Ouachita. Far below we could see the large houseboat dock that is being slowly moved from the Shores Resort, in Denby Bay, to the eastern end of the lake, some twenty five miles by water, to the North Shore Resort. This dock is two hundred feet wide and five hundred feet long. Two large houseboats secured on two sides were slowly nudging the dock east at a pace so slow it appeared to be not moving at all.
I have attached a photo of the dock taken from the summit.
We will meet tomorrow at the same parking area next to the picnic area at 9:00 am.
Join for this final day of construction.
Jerry
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