Finished the Trail!!!

[Irulan]

Today we finished our club's new trail. It started as a Trail Care Crew project, but it is much more than that. Our club is really new, and we wanted to do something really visible. So this new trail is in a heavily used, hiker-horse and bike area. ( don't worry, we'll be doing more bike specific projects!!) The old trail, which will be left intact, is a fall line erosion mess of jumbled basalt, not ride-uppable at all. The new route is a gentle contour trail, 894' long that winds along the bottom of a basalt scree slope, has a nice climbing turn, and then thought the forest and meets up with the other trail at the bottom.

here's the original route


On the first day, a path was cleared through the basalt,


and laid out in the woods. some log clearing was done


then we came back and worked in the dry, ashy soil to cut the tread and and deal with the scree:





On the third day, it had rained some so it was much easier to work. We got the corner done, and some of the lower section roughed in;






Today, we did tons.
On the upper scree section, we brought in some gravel to fill in the holes that there was no getting rid of, and we knocked all the rocks on the outside edge of the trail down the side of the hill. The scree was a real drag - too rough to be very rideable ( everyone was *****ing about it, even the good riders) not fractured enough to armor and build nice technical lines, just jumbly and rough.

before:



after



Finished the bench cut all the way down to the end





and made the lower entry a little more noticable.




all in all a good few day's work!!

http://www.fttrc.org

[tomgrrrl]

Nice job....the trail looks great!!!

[Nanci]

Looks Great!!! I love riding trails that I have personally worked on, and especially jumps that I have built- they are more meaningful.

Nanci

[Veronica]

Wow! That's a lot of work!

V.

[VenusdeVelo]

Great job Irulan...I MTB in Chequamegon, Wisconsin's home of the FatTire Festival and anytime I ride it I want to kiss all those people who go out there, work on trails, clean up trails and keep them "healthy". We support the trail system and hat's off to you for helping improve the trails in your state!

[CorsairMac]

very nicely built Irulan. kudos to all of you for all the hard work!!

[pkq]

Great job! Looks like a great trail to ride. When's the next one?

[Jo-n-NY]

Irulan,

The trail and pictures are spectacular. You should all be very proud of all that hard work.

JoAnn

[Irulan]

Great job! Looks like a great trail to ride. When's the next one?

we are working on plans for stunts and ladders and new technical trails, for all levels, at the city park that is a mtb site. We will start building in the spring.