Huffing and puffing up the steps of the Valido Trail on Labor Day, it occurred to me that someone built this trail. Arms cut the logs to length, drilled holes, and hammered them into the decaying sandstone. Deer might have pioneered the original trail, but human beings took machetes and shovels to widen it.
The work looks like more than an Eagle Scout project. I suspect that the county contracted the job and the contractor hired braceros to cut away the brush and install the steps as he looked over blueprints and drank a bottle of Arrowhead Springs water... More at [Pax Nortona] [Photos] - Joel
I grew up with stories of children pulling sacks of cotton through the fields in the [good old days].
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