01 · LEDGER
Rounded trailing edges
Caliche and Navajo grit chew the back of the sole first. The leading edge still looks proud while the heel already scoops. We measure tread height with a mason step, not with a thumbnail tale from Sunbrook.
Ledger 17 · St George Blvd · three-cut riser
Cut the riser before desert grit files the trailing edge round.
Grind Step is a sandstone quarry stair, not a wedge wall of boxes. Rheda Voss reads grind as mason risers: each sole is a tread, each bounce change a step height, and Snow Canyon dust tells on a fifty-four that still photographs like a factory C.
02 · TREAD
Factory letters that lie in red rock
A C stamped on the back is a quarry nickname, not a height. Bloomington heat opens the same letter two different ways on two different lofts.
03 · QUOIN STONE
Split stairs
Toe still a high riser, heel already a landing. That fifty-eight throws fat only from the heel. We cut treads separately. Courtesy averages stay in the gift shop at Pioneer Park.
Why a quarry stair
A box letter is a souvenir. Tread height is the masonry.
Players arrive clutching a grind nickname they liked under fluorescent light. St. George does not read nicknames. It reads whether the trailing edge still has a square shoulder after two summers of Snow Canyon wind, and whether a fifty-six that looked new in a garage already went round at the heel on Coral Canyon kikuyu.
Calen Durr scribes the sole. Rheda decides recut, retire, or leave the ledger alone. Ione names the grit hours. Nobody here polishes a dead tread to make a drawer photograph happier.
Heard off the boulevard
Ledgers people actually filed
My fifty-four still looked like a factory C. Ione put the step on the heel and the tread was already a landing. We recut. Sunbrook stopped grabbing the face like wet clay.
They asked whether I play The Ledges mornings or Washington Fields afternoons. I said both. Rheda said pick a grit hour or keep a second sole. Useful, not sweet.