early this week, ben, my neighbor and fellow commuter scott clokey, and myself all got together to try to work on some fairfax city and county connector trails. these trails are a huge asset for getting aorund but the city and county don't keep them on the maintenance schedule. and they were absolutely being taken over by poison ivy.
a few weeks earlier, i had taken the metro home from the greenbelt race and forgotten my lights. I ended up cruising through here in the dark and rolling right off the trail into the ivy. suh-weet. my house was close by so with I was able to shower and with the help of a kitchen scrungee which was pushed into service as a loofa, i miraculously avoided the pox.
check out the ivy encorachment in the shot below....
we decided to deal with the symptom rather than the cause. it was hot, but we knocked it out pretty fast and had a nice sense of accomplishment to boot.
all the more reason for people to join organizations like fabb.
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