Today I did a little walking on the Ridge Road and noticed in many places long scratches on the protruding bedrock. I wondered if this was evidence of attempts at trail grooming when snow was not deep enough. Click the image for a larger version.
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Doubt it, they didn’t take out the big machines often enough. This was probably from them driving a truck around pre-snow.
If this was from a truck then their truck has BIG problems (in the undercarriage department)
Much more likely that it was made in the fall by some of the equipment used for trail renovations.
I am inclined to say groomer. One of them seemed to be dragging an appendage during the winter, which left a deep rut that meandered back and forth across Ridge Road out past Champlain Lookout .
Maybe a groomer, maybe a trailer behind a truck.
That section of the trail is really canted with the rocks making a natural slope. A grooming machine trying to level out the trail might have hit it with the front blade. But it seems like a really long gouge for that and they didn’t have their big equipment out until there was more than enough snow to avoid something like that. I would really doubt it was an attachment being pulled behind a groomer either – they are either hydraulic or not applying enough pressure behind a snow machine.
My guess is the edge of a trailer pulled behind a truck.
Don’t you see?!- it’s was the Incas from Nazca that scratched those lines while trying to land on Ridge Road
You’re all wrong… It was from my rock skis and I have the bases(or what’s left of them) to prove it