Middle Loop Diary

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Feb 12, 2006. 76 hours from 19 volunteers. Amazing. Four new workers today, including Chain Reaction owner Phil Cohen. Hell yes, Phil becomes to first of the local shop owners to come out and help. Joe Huff gets the "bringing a friend" award this week for bringing two compadres.

We cleared very thick corridor today. It was too wet to do finish work. The second loop has about 2.75 miles ready to be finished. We just need it to dry out enough to work on it. It killed me to have 19 volunteers out there and not be able to put anyone on finish work.

The connector between the loops should be pushed thru this week. It should be ready to have finish work this weekend.

All for now. The number so far:

10.2 miles finished.
2.75 miles ready to finish
4.75 miles corridor cleared.

84 individual volunteers
296 volunteer days
1151.5 hours.

Grand Opening. March 25, 2006.

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The Brown Wave is now connected to the top loop.

They built thru those large drains w/o any issues.

Quote of the evening.

"I built the biggest jump I've ever built in my life today"

M Burton
Feb 15, 2006

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The 17 mile point has been reached by all the machines. ;D

It is dragged raked all the way to this point.

There are about 7 miles that need to be finished now. It would be good to have about 4 miles finished and leave 3 miles to be finished on the grand opening day.

I walked all the middle loop today that has been built, plus some that was only corridor'd. The connection form the junction to the Brown Wave on the short side is 1.9 miles. It's about 3.75 miles the long way. The part of the middle loop that is a 2 mile finger is full of big jumps.

The crew will be flush cutting and armoring the next couple of weeks.

We now have 1187.5 hours done and 312.5 to go.

Lets shoot for a 100 hour weekend on the 25th and 26th of Feb.

Can anyone lead a workday on the 25th?