Impromptu Workday - 6-15-11

When: 5pm(ish)
Where: Power line cut on Ogg Rd head East about 100 yards.
Bring: Safety glasses of some sort, gloves, drills, circular saw if you have it, water and heavy duty bug spray.

We'll be laying rungs (decking) on the drop zone and wooden berm. Contact Patrick or I for questions. See you there.

-Shannon

ERTA Workday Recap

Above: Jay, Kevin, Patrick, Pete, Nick, Joe, and Doug.

I'd like to thank everyone who came out to work and anyone who pitched in to make this trail day happen. I would call it a huge success. It took 12 or 13 men and one young man about 5 hours to do what 3 men have done in 2 months. There are pics here of the the progress and completed framing for the wooden berm and drop zone.

We'd like to thank the Shawnee Rotary Club again, for their generous grant, Timber King (portable saw mills) for their donation of rough cut timber.


Paul and Patrick working on the 5' drop.

Banked Berm coming in to drop zone.

Rocks from the post holes. Good thing we rented that demolition hammer.

The Drop Zone.


-Shannon

Workday This Saturday 5-14

We are having an ERTA sponsored workday this Saturday starting at 8am. We are going to work on digging holes for the posts, framing, and putting the rungs on the first feature. There's a chance we might get to ride it when we're done. We're expecting a big turnout, and lunch will be provided. See you there!

Press Release about Shawnee Rotary Grant for SMP Freeride

http://pressreleases.kcstar.com/?q=node/57623



If you haven't heard, ERTA was awarded $1,000 to put toward the SMP Freeride project by the Shawnee Rotary Club. This couldn't have come at a better time and thus has sparked conversations within ERTA regarding more funding. Great thanks goes out to Neale Shour for providing the opportunity to connect with the Shawnee Rotary Club, and to the Shawnee Rotary Club for providing us with this opportunity to expand this project and boost it into overdrive!

I'd also like to thank Ken Miner and Patrick for meeting up with them to explain who ERTA is, what they do and to receive the check.

Things are looking up gents', so if you aren't coming out to the trail days, you better hop on board because the ball is rollin'!!

With this money, Patrick and I will be purchasing a generator and a jack hammer to aid in the post hole digging as well as a couple 1/2" drivers for the wooden features. This should speed up the progress by about 3x and hopefully we'll have a drop zone, wooden berm, creek jump, and some other features to ride come Summer.

-Shannon

Pics from the Workday

Picture Update

Some pictures of the recent work over the past week. The elevated burm is close to being completed.

Pics from the weekend

Some pics from the work this weekend. Started working on the elevated burm. The 4x4's and the 2x10 are just there for visual purposes now. The line is starting to come together.