24 HOUR GAMES

FIRST SET, FROM SUNDAY AM, ABOUT MID-WAY DONE WITH THE MAIN CHANNEL

The extracted dirt was piled up on both sides of the trench, except for where the lower east/west road ran. In later pictures, you'll see where the guy doing the digging ran over the piles, compacting and lowering them. At first, it looked like a 3' deep trench and 3' of dirt, but he smashed it down a good bit. Over time, the air will get out of the pile, and rain will erode it, to where it should be about 4'-5' from trench floor to where you look over and across the field. The field will be cut, and in some places sprayed to keep the ground cover down.

This is just a picture of the re-worked drainage channel. It used to be a big wet spot, about 20' wide, where nobody could camp. You can't really tell it from this picture, but there's a definite "swell" - drop off - just left of the vehicle tracks you can see. You can kinda make out the drainage pipe, kinda below and in-line with the light pole. He had to pull another 3' or so off of the big hill to fill this spot in, but it makes that far road a little easier for RVs, and it gives people the ability to camp on all but the swell - reducing the affected area from 30' to about 2'.

These pics are from a couple of days later, after he was done. Instead of two, main channels, there's one wider channel, with three channels shooting off. Going clockwise... the main channel goes to the creek at the bridge, the next one goes into the creek about 1/3 of the way to the big young-pine thicket, the next one goes to just beside the east/west road at the southern edge of the young-pine thicket, and the last one goes to the northern edge of the thicket. These pics are also after he smashed the piles down. They should go down even further, over time.

Most of the shots were done so that I could create a panoramic view of the clearing. Starting with the second pic, to the pic where you see my orange shirt, is just such a set. Those pics are from the lower hut, facing north, then swinging incrementally to the south. Another set goes from the northern hut.

At the end of the two lateral channels, leading to either side of the pine thicket, I had him make an 8'x8' cut-out for "hooches."

This, and the two pictures above, are the hooch cut-outs. The one below is the one pointing toward the creek. They'll need to be dug out a little bit more, with shovels, but you get the idea. :-)