Paul’s Slide in Photos, 8/26/23

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• The scale of Paul's Slide is massive while the work being done has produced artistic photo ops. Nature is bigger and stronger than man, but those dozers keep at it.

• Agreed, Cindy. They may inspire moral commentary along an entire spectrum from admiration to dismay, but the images themselves are arresting and irresistible.

• Wonderful photos! Nature is not too thrilled with us!

• Are these Brendon's photos? Whoever has done them deserves lots of thanks. They really show the scope of Paul's Slide issues and what a huge project it is. Not to mention showing us all artistic (if dreaded) beauty.

• Is work still proceeding? I thought all the equipment left. Probably a good idea to wait and see what this winter’s expected El Niño rains do to the still moving slope before trying to establish a new road bed.

• Man’s hubris has exposed nature’s wrath - and beauty.

• Man's wrath against Nature's beauty?

• Pic 01: Given the apparent surficial failures at left, and the (so far?) unbuttressed cuts below and upper-center, not to mention the gradients, should we be worried?

• Pic 02. Given the apparent pattern of surficial failures and possibly dry-raveling/rockfalls on the “natural” slope in the middle-background, are they building a free-standing embankment ramp above natural grade to “capture” future rockfalls and/or slope failures? The medium gray (secondary regrowth over older failure[s]?) slope above the surficial failure(s) appears undermined, thus possible subject to further failure (as well as the apparently undisturbed vegetation above that area). Do I see evidence of movement of the mass above the lower construction road?

• Pic 04/05. Is that seepage/runoff I see to the left of the new compacted fill?