Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
by kingbirdy on Thursday May 14, 2020 @05:35PM
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Creating a new trail sounds interesting - I had to do similar as part of a service project when I was a kid, but I imagine it's much more fulfilling when it's for your personal use. How are you able to create the trail, is it free use public land, or more of a guerrilla repurposing of untended private land?
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
by secretsinger on Friday May 15, 2020 @05:07AM
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The land is in limbo: it's abandoned pine plantations currently being used by joggers, dogwalkers and (to a lesser degree) cyclists.
I can highly recommend trail building (both walking and cycling trails) as a combination of physical, aesthetic and intellectual challenges (figuring out how to use the terrain to be both fun and interesting/possible to ride and then moving tons of earth and vegetation to make it happen).
Re:Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
by mikorym on Friday May 15, 2020 @12:22PM
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Paradyskloof?
I'm a keen mountain biker, so I've put my energy and frustration into developing new mountain bike trails in the hills around my house. Been meaning to do this for a long time, but there are such good trails a few miles further away, so the incentive has not been very strong until now.
I'm building for about 1 hour per day on average, and I manage to get between 10 and 100m of trail built in that hour, so by the time the lock-down ends I'm aiming to have a contiguous piece of singletrack that's a mile long.
Also, I've been helping on a local project to develop an open-source ventilator (https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/rescuevent)
And I'm working on a peer-to-peer donation platform (which is not really ready to show to anyone yet)