Still a curve
The leading radius can look generous while the exit is already a straightedge. Lincoln Park clay does that by June. We stake both ends.
Station 08 · South Fourth · two-arc glass
Trace bounce as a canyon bearing before clay flattens the exit.
Bounce Arc is a survey transit, not a wedge catalog. Nils Harwood stakes bounce as a living arc on glass: entry radius, exit radius, and whether Redlands Mesa dust has already shortened the curve a fifty-eight still claims on a box.
02 · EXIT
Flattened glass
A bounce number is a rumor. Petra reads the exit on smoked glass. If the curve is gone, a new number will not grow it back.
03 · WIND
Monument rim
Afternoon wind off the monument dries clay into a file. Ewan will not average that hour with a still Redlands morning.
04 · CANAL
Highline dew
Dew along the Highline keeps a dead exit looking alive until ten. We wait for the glass to dry before we write a bearing.
Why a transit
A bounce integer is furniture on a box. An arc is a bearing you can restake.
People walk in from Orchard Mesa with a number they liked in a magazine. Grand Junction clay does not read magazines. It reads whether the exit radius still exists after two summers of Tiara Rado bunkers, and whether a fifty-six that looked wide in a hallway already skids on Adobe Creek hardpan.
Petra inks the glass. Nils decides restake, box, or leave the station alone. Ewan names the canyon hours. Nobody here paints a dead radius to make a drawer happier.
Heard on Fourth
Transits people actually staked
My fifty-eight still said 12 on the back. Petra smoked the glass and the exit was a ruler. We restaked. Tiara Rado stopped hopping like a skipped stone.
They asked if I play Lincoln Park evenings or the mesa at noon. I said both. Nils said pick a clay hour or keep a second sole. I picked the hour.