skyking1
Senior Member
I did a couple of seasons up there, rebuilding Stevens Canyon road.
We had a deeper road repair at a slide chute farther down Stevens Canyon on the mountain job. They had originally done a fantastic buildup and wall construction with stacked blocks, but it needed drainage pipe installed beneath it all. That one we peeled apart with excavators and restacked, as it was a dry stack wall. We called it the Amphitheater due to the appearance of the massive lower layers and setbacks.
Google maps overview:
https://goo.gl/maps/Mi17fuhsqxwVyYBz7
We got that down about 32 feet below road grade, then I slid down in there with this 9 ton Volvo excavator and put in drains. The federal inspector emailed me this photo years later.
The big excavator is a 345 Cat. he had put the bucket on backwards and dipped the drain rock out of a dump truck, and then handed it down to me.
After we got the drain in, he flipped the bucket around, I hooked onto his bucket with mine and he assisted me out of there.
It is the way.
It would be a quick trip to the switchback below.
The amphitheater benches
My friend Mike of the Mountain
I think somebody's cremains were originally placed in that notch. This rock creation is virtually invisible to the park visitors, as it is steep up the hill above you on the switchback and out of sight as you drive by above.
We had a deeper road repair at a slide chute farther down Stevens Canyon on the mountain job. They had originally done a fantastic buildup and wall construction with stacked blocks, but it needed drainage pipe installed beneath it all. That one we peeled apart with excavators and restacked, as it was a dry stack wall. We called it the Amphitheater due to the appearance of the massive lower layers and setbacks.
Google maps overview:
https://goo.gl/maps/Mi17fuhsqxwVyYBz7
We got that down about 32 feet below road grade, then I slid down in there with this 9 ton Volvo excavator and put in drains. The federal inspector emailed me this photo years later.
The big excavator is a 345 Cat. he had put the bucket on backwards and dipped the drain rock out of a dump truck, and then handed it down to me.
After we got the drain in, he flipped the bucket around, I hooked onto his bucket with mine and he assisted me out of there.
It is the way.
It would be a quick trip to the switchback below.
The amphitheater benches
My friend Mike of the Mountain
I think somebody's cremains were originally placed in that notch. This rock creation is virtually invisible to the park visitors, as it is steep up the hill above you on the switchback and out of sight as you drive by above.