Spokin Lake Road

I recently traveled down the Spokin Lake road towards the 108 rd. Now this in it's self is not earth shattering. What has me confused is that this road is maintained by the Horsefly roads group. Again this is not earth shattering. The confusing part is that the road was in reasonably good condition and I would hazard a guess that it was recently graded.

When I arrived at the 108 Rd, it was as if I had driven off a reasonably good road on to a goat track. The 108 Rd from the 2300 road to the Wood Jam road has not seen any sort of grading. It has, however, had some maintenance done on it in the guise of dust control or Calcium applied to it.

Now we have been blessed with a mild winter and little snow. As a result we have not had any wash outs or unusual amounts of moisture which would have caused a rapid deterioration of the road. Never the less, the roads need to be maintained before the rains come it.

If you have been a reader of this blog you will know that my #1 peeve is cattle guards. I will discuss this at a later date. My #2 peeve is "washboard" roads in particular "washboard" roads on the straight stretches. I will discuss this in a later post as well. But, this brings up the grading of the 108 Rd from Woodjam Rd to Louden Rd. It was graded. Now this is one section of road that they actually put some gravel on. What is confusing, there I go again with this confusing stuff, WHY did they not grade out the "washboard". As I have pointed out before, I am not an engineer or road technician, but does it not make common sense that when you are grading a road that you would take out the washboard?

I guess there is no sense of pride in the work you do, or.........

More on this in a later post.