Earning my dirt

Yesterday was a trail building day at the Swope Park trails. A couple guys at the shop are the minds behind this little nugget of singletrack goodness. I figured I needed to start to get involved a little more, you know, instead of taking advantage of others hard work, be part of it!
There were 42 people that showed up for a 3 hr work day that planned on cutting new trail(my group), benchcutting, and making the lines through the many rocky areas flow well.
Before I knew it, noon was upon us and we were free to ride. I headed out with Craig and Scott, with Travis and Jesse in tow. Craig and Scott's skills are legendary around these parts and I had not yet had the chance to ride with these guys.
We warmed up on some tame existing trail, went and checked out all the trail that had been worked on in the a.m., then the 3 of us proceeded to pin it through the entire trail set. Swope is littered with rock gardens galore and we barely slowed our pace through those lines. I would have never ridden some that stuff by myself that fast, so it was good to get another perspective on how it's done.
After a nice little 3 day block of saddle time, it's back to work(yeah, Sunday noon-5pm, ugh). Feeling good about earning my dirt though!