Store Shutdown Over

The shutdown of the store ends Tuesday. That makes it nine weeks, sometimes that feels like a long time and others not nearly so much. As nice as it's been not having to work the day to day, it's been hard to fully enjoy it with the restrictions in place. Of course I realize that many people out in the world have way more pressing issues to worry about with regards to the pandemic. But I also can't help but think about the kind of adventures that could be had with nine weeks off of work. More than enough time to do the Tour Divide route, if the nine weeks fell in the right time of year. My bike packing stuff is all sorted for the most part and ready to go. I see a quick overnight up to Oneil Lake in the near future, but there are no firm plans in the works beyond that. We'll be going five days a week through June, so the possibility exists to go for a two night adventure somewhere if Covid restrictions allow. If not, I've been pretty happy recreating at home for the last nine weeks, and it should only get better as the weather improves. It'll be even better still if there are a few less people around than normal. Sarah and I enlisted the help of Hugh and Mike B. to work on putting in a bridge over a little creek for the conservancy. The two stewards of the trail (Larry and Dan) came down to help as well. It turned out they did most of the bridge installation with Hugh in the lead, and Mike and I worked on shoring up the banks on both sides of the creek with scavenged rocks from nearby. It wasn't a huge creek at all, and crossing it wasn't that problematic. But the bridge is a very nice addition all the same. It's going to be a brave new world down at the store with the curbside masked service. Over and out.