I second Bill Sherwonit in his recent accolades in this paper about the long-overdue improvements to the Hidden Lake Trail in Chugach Park. Much hard effort, both in the fundraising arena and in hard physical labor, added so much to this and other trails.
Also, very belatedly, I’d throw some shine on a local company, Steel Fab. The two new bridges they constructed over Campbell Creek on the Tour of Anchorage trail are worth a blue ribbon. I know there is a huge team involved in such a project, from the surveyor, the design engineer, and the truck drivers who offloaded the tons of material, to the folks who set the forms for the foundation cement. They made those river crossings a reality that we use and ignore. Unlike the old bridges, these new crossings look “bombproof.”
But more than that, they were made by true craftsmen. There have to be hundreds, if not thousands, of welds on each bridge, and everyone I examined was quality work. I wish my house was built with that fit and finish.
— Jim Thiele
Anchorage
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