But mostly when nobody is there to see.
A kindred soul! I’m in my fifties and I’ve got this thing that when there’s a little stream blocked with leaves I feel it as my duty to disinhibit the flow.
And God it’s so embarrassing when other people notice me.
Bro’s got that beaver in him.
Isn’t it more like the anti-beaver?
we call it “helping spring” in my family
Are you playing Boards and Winches, or just plain ol Puddles?
I’m playing an overly prepared eFatBiker in full militaristic gear, trying not to be seen, with some plain ol puddle draining sprinkled in between. Surprising how many autistic activities you can combine into a single hobby.
Sounds fun! I like that there are battery-powered offroad bikes: I loved to walk around in the forests backe where I from, and there were some assholes ripping through the moss on dirtbikes. While I understand the thrill of doing that, the damage was easily noticeable, and they were also loud and smelly. Now if someone would ride around on something lighter, enviromentally-friendly, and quiet, it would be awesome.
I’m riding a usual bike - knowing that if i buy an e-bike, I will quickly get lazy, I don’t allow myself to think about its convenience too much. :)
I think it looks like a dinosaur footprint
You need to drain the puddles and restore the usefulness of the trail, this is important work focused on solving a major problem. I understand completely.
On a serious note, going through a puddle is genuinely a valid way of avoiding trail erosion. The alternative of walking around a puddle means walking on the unimproved edges of a wet trail, which erodes that soil and makes the puddle wider. Continuing through the middle of the trail – puddle be darned – means the puddle might get a little deeper, but when it dries out, the soil will fill the hole again, by gravity.
Trails are not heaven-sent but are built and rebuilt every year by park managers so that the public can still enjoy a slice of nature, while balancing the needs of wildlife for undisturbed parkland. People that go trail walking after rain will know to bring deep boots, precisely so they don’t contribute to the erosion problem. Trail bikers also come prepared to wade through puddles, although they already tend to enjoy the mud anyway
As they say, there’s no such thing as bad weather but only bad clothes. Go forth into the puddles.
(Edit: to be clear, stomping on a puddle doesn’t do much to drain it. Some water will fly out, and that amount will drain away usually. But please, do not carve out a ditch to drain a puddle. Nature will evaporate it in time, or the park management needs to fix the trail drains)
I’m in my 40s and when we moved into our house a few years back we had a big rain event that washed out the driveway.
I got to rent a small excavator to dig a trench and install a drain and pipe to redirect the rainfall out of a downspout to the bottom of the driveway.
It was like playing with a toy and playing with puddles but as an adult. In another life I would have been a hydrological engineer but in this one I’m just a person that gets to rent machines for fun household chores occasionally.
This doesn’t look that far from having to walk back to the yard so I can pull it out of the slough.
But if it is, then I will have to walk farther.
