Re: road surfaces

["Michelle Fink" <michrowe@frontier.net>]

> It appears to be basically a dirt road with some gravel from your jpeg
shot.

It is just dirt.  But they put either calcium or lime or something like that
on it to keep the dust down - and it does.  The result is a road that feels
almost like a pumice block.  It's not quite that hard, but it's harder than
it looks. :-)  There's little if any give at the surface.  On the sides, the
give comes from the dust and loose rock that builds up.  A few looong rides
on the stuff wears the shoes off my horses - easy to do long rides and as
the roads go for miles and miles.

m