October Trail Walk

This is a walk I took yesterday along part of our trail.  It now takes two hours for me to fully walk.  It's a work in progress.  We have other sections we've yet to complete.  Sadly, it has been so dry that the water in the creeks is minimal.

I've walked probably a mile  on the trail to come to this bridge, which we made  cutting a  cattle shute in half.  We  recycle.  The wood was very hard to cut - seeming almost petrified.   Here are more pictures of the same bridge, showing the railroad ties we cut for steps on both sides due to the steep terrain  leading down to the creek crossing. This next picture is a little beyond this bridge. 

This is Binka and Barney, our two labs. 

Walking close to another mile we come to  the next bridge.  We used  a piece of  metal for this bridge.  These next pictures are  actually part of  a horse trail which we converted into a hiking trail.  I skipped quite a bit, but these last few pictures are the last leg of the  almost 3 mile trail.  Since the trail is a series of loops you can do shorter distances.  You will always come back to the same place, eventually.  This was the first bridge my husband  constructed out of  logs and  discarded lumber around the farm.  It's pretty sturdy, considering a tree  fell on it  during a heavy storm.  That got turned into firewood.