My plan was to allow an entrance onto the steep hillside and also continue the road down the hill to the end of the meadow. There, it connects to a road I
cut in last year on the North side near the small ravine. Even on the more gentle slope I had to
cut quite a bit of dirt and decomposed gravel away to
cut the slope out of the hillside.
The farther down I got, the steeper the hill got.
I used my trusty box blade bulldozing in reverse to
cut the slope out of the hillside.
I used the "scalloping technique" like a bulldozer uses to
cut roads into hillsides, except I was doing it in reverse going backwards. I was able to tilt the boxblade and
cut off the high side so my tires would end up on more level, less sloped earth. Not only that, but the area I
cut was now clean and fresh (more solid) than the spooky hillside slope. It took many passes to
cut like that but it was a safe way to keep my tractor off a steep side slope and not tip over. I pushed dirt from the high side down to the low side and compacted as I drove over the loose dirt.