The Slab

Trail Wood #82 Earl Plato

Back in 2007 as we drove along the lane at Trail Wood I noticed as we drove over Hampton Creek something unusual. Neil had slowed down as we drove over a “single, immense slab of rock” that supported the traffic of the lane. On Teale’s log of April 18th we read:
“ Just upstream from the bridge where a single, immense slab of rock has supported the traffic of our lane for more than a century and a half, I spend the morning adding stone after stone to the rough dam over which water cascades below a growing pool.”
Writer‘s note: No water flow that dry July day of 2007. I saw the dam made up of many small boulders. Labor intensified! Teale worked hard on his Trail Wood property as we shall see in the months ahead.