Building a Bike Track in a Cow Pasture
Local boys enjoying the track. There’s not much for the youth to do in our town. There is a soccer field that’s occasionally used, but beyond that the main outdoor activity, at least for the boys, is to ride their bikes up and down the streets. We started pondering how to help provide healthy outlets for the kids in town as well as our own kids. In a particular way we wanted to help encourage our twelve-year-old son to get outside and burn off some energy. That’s where the idea of building a bike course evolved. How would we do this? Where could we build it? Our landlord has lots of connections in town, so we thought we’d start with him. He liked the idea, and said he’d ask around. A short time later he got back to us and said he’d found the spot for us to build the bike track. I have to admit, when I first saw the land, I felt a bit discouraged. It was very overgrown with trees, bushes, tall grass, brush eve...