Our project in Washington D.C. this week was to reroute just under 200 feet of the Cabin John trail up on the hillside out of the floodplain, where it is beginning to erode dangerously. At first, we considered moving the tree in the top picture to make way for the trail, and started cutting 5 feet from the top with a crosscut saw. But as we moved stones and sand from the root ball above the stump, we saw there was just enough space to put the trail cozily between the down tree and the pile of stone above. The stones closer to the camera in the top photo nearly begged us to rearrange them into two easy steps, and so we did just that. In five days we cut in the new trail and disguised the old one enough that it is not only no longer walkable, but also not recognizable either.
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