Bob's Eyes

Friday November 22, 2024 Guerneville CA.

Back to the rock slide

I thought I better get back up to the rock slide this morning to check it out. It rained hard all night long and this morning.

But it stopped for awhile around noon when I rode on up to the rock slide. I parked here just below the rock slide to have a look. Yes, it was closed.

With all the rain we’ve been having, the slide slid again. I studied the situation and decided the best way to deal with this was just remove the bottom of the slide on the left side, so cars can pass by. I can just push the rocks into that little area on the right which shouldn’t take very long.

And from what I see up at the top of the slide, things don’t look very stable so I expect more stuff to come tumbling down.

My dozer was parked nearby, so I walked up to it, because I couldn’t get by the slide with Hondo.

I got the dozer started and warmed up a bit, then drove it the short distance down to the rock slide.

Got it done

It didn’t take very long and looked pretty good and now the other guy that works on this with his smaller machine can clear it by pushing the rock down the road as long as the slide doesn’t get too large.

I drove the dozer back to it’s parking place and then rode on over to the state park shop to talk with the guys about the slide. I caught the right guy there eating his lunch. He’s one of the guys that will eventually help me rock the road.

Next to the shop was this visitor center where a lady worked that sells grass fed cattle right off the ranch and I wanted to talk with her. She wasn’t in as she’s busy taking care of water problems on her ranch up along the coast. But I had a good chat with the other people that were in there.

When I left, I found the guy I was talking with in the shop working to get this big tree that fell down out of the road in the redwoods picnic area.

I rode on back to the slide area to make sure the road was still open and it was.

I continued on up the hill to our property and spent some time throwing sticks like this one off the road.

That’s a limb from a redwood tree, one of the smaller ones.

I drove on up to the ridge top to the Guerneville overlook and saw what I expected, rain clouds.

On the way home I noticed this area by the mobile home had sunk a bit. I guess we need some dirt for that.

I made it home and it was nap time.

Nice day.

Rock slide work

I had an email in the box this morning saying the rock slide I took out yesterday had slid again and did I have time to fix it.

I got all my rain gear on as it was still raining fairly hard and rode on up there. The dozer needed some oil in the transmission so I filled it up and drove on down the to nearby slide.

A neighbor had been working on it and had it cleared out, but he piled all the rock along the road so there wasn’t much room for more rock to come down from the slide without fully blocking the road again.

I worked on pushing the piles of rock up and down the road to dissipate it. While I was doing that, it poured down rain which got all the rock stuff soaking wet and things got a bit sloppy.

Also, while I was working on it, the slide slid four more times, once with lots of rock coming down.

After a few hours work, I got all the rock spread on the road and was hoping the slide would stop.

This is the upper part of the rock slide. Water is coming out of the rock and it’s all real loose, so more is bound to come down, especially with all the rain we are getting.

I went over to the park guys shop to chat a bit and give the slide a little time to see if it was going to slide right away. When I came back at 4, the slide hadn’t slid, so I headed for home.