
- Starting to rough-in the route
- Getting the path established
- Final product with road base
- Another bird’s eye view
- Marking the route and clearing the forest
- Marking the route and clearing the forest
- Starting excavation
- Digging out the large cuts
- Making more cuts
- Moving Material
- Cutting in the route
- The cuts needed to preserve <10% grade
- Compaction prior to geo-fabric
- Getting down to rough grade
- Rough grade-road bed prior to compaction
- Rough Grade
- Compaction before geo-fabric
- Compaction prior to geo-fabric
- Cutting in a culvert
- Culvert Installation
- Starting to lay the geo-fabric
- Culvert Installation
- Hauling in 1-2 feet of pit run
- Pit run over the geo-fabric
- Second culvert installation
- Starting to grade the pit run
- Moving Materials
- Pit Run looking better
- Starting the road base
- Starting to look like a road
- Rough edging with topsoil, will be cleaned up after first run-off
- Road base installed and working on landscaping the entrance
- Moving boulders for landscape elements
- Culvert dress-up
- Natural products make a mountain road look so good!
- Hiding ugly culverts
- Look…you can barely see it!
Project Description
Client: J. Flowers
Location: Victor, ID
Year Completed: 2022
The Challenges
A very complicated road build. The engineers said we “couldn’t build the road with less than a 10% grade”. Not only did we come in at 9.8%, but we also managed to divert the route around several large trees, while maintaining a beautiful forest-feel!