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Connection to Widby Loops and the "shoe-fly" detour route (v.007)
Google Earth Imagery Date: October 12, 2020
Google Earth Imagery Date: October 12, 2020
The orange line in the map above is a grade that I am pretty sure was constructed as a detour route when they were making the cut that severed the highway. I've only explored it a little bit before being turned back by deep mud and impassable blackberries. I can't remember if it was paved or not. It connects with the new US 30 alignment, not the original heading off to Hunt Creek. - A. F. Litt, 2020
The orange line in the map above is a grade that I am pretty sure was constructed as a detour route when they were making the cut that severed the highway. I've only explored it a little bit before being turned back by deep mud and impassable blackberries. I can't remember if it was paved or not. It connects with the new US 30 alignment, not the original heading off to Hunt Creek. - A. F. Litt, 2020
Kirk J. Poole, March 13, 2020:
Kirk J. Poole, March 13, 2020:
...definitely a "shoe-fly" or detour route to keep 30 open while the contractors blew up the hillside to make the big cut for the 1954 'modern' highway. I've verified about 1,000 feet of it with asphalt underneath all of it. This was probably used from about 1952 through 1954-1956.
The orange line is the temp road. It leaves newer 30 on the west side and then met up with the old road after going over the top. I'd like to have you and Stephen on the same trip and the good legs can climb over this large dirt pile (20-ish feet high) at the end of the old road at the road cut. This is where we observed the highest level of road fracturing too.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/posts/673885570068301 Accessed: November 13, 2022
A. F. Litt, July 12, 2020:
A. F. Litt, July 12, 2020:
I swear I have PTSD from my attempt on the shoe-fly!
Kirk J. Poole, July 12, 2020:
Kirk J. Poole, July 12, 2020:
I just need to spend about 4 hours with my weed eater to cut a good path up the shoe fly. But I have a feeling ODOT blew a small piece of it to sever it when the modern highway opened. I'll know at some point, maybe even this Winter.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/483015922488601/posts/756111678512356 Accessed: November 27, 2022
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