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Odd year for sure…
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But good for trailwork. Dirt is superb right nowAttachment 480869Attachment 480870Attachment 480872Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiLyft
Couldn’t agree more; we are cranking out features so fast!!
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Yah that build of yours looks fantastic.
Shar and I have been reworking a old trail she put in 13 years ago that's now super popular with runners, walkers too. It was primarily dh one-way but she made it so low angle that it's become two way biking and will be used quite a bit more as a popular formerly pirate trail becomes sanctioned.
Didn't think we'd get around to finishing it will late spring but ski season has been so poor we're 2/3rds ( and mostly ) done before New Years
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Looks like a fun one! Agreed; we had no intent of finishing this before “winter” set in!Quote:
Originally Posted by LeeLau
We are reviving an old rock/flow trail called blast off. It started as a cut through trail to flow onto another DH track called Stalingrab. Rumor has it - it hasn’t been dug on since ~2000. Shit doesn’t even look the same; all the features are so much bigger yet safer as the landings are huge swaths vs sniper points. Hubapolooza is going to race it this year as part of their DH course, stoked to get like 5000 tires down it after a solid winter of settling in!
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Lee, trails look great but I hope you cannot build anymore this winter! I have a trip to Nelson planned 1st week of Feb and I'm getting nervous!
Damn! Me too. Headed to a hut at 1800m and it's ok there but the temps are never wrackingQuote:
Originally Posted by jackstraw
That rebuild is looking awesome! I should really just drive over there and go for a ride since our winter is so terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiLyft
It took me a bit to recognize it, but I remember racing on blast off a few times, many years ago. That trail will be fantastic with the rebuild!
Things are looking good this weekend/early next week. Should be warm enough to burn off the freeze/thaw!
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Dirt and flat rock quality insane in this zone. Got a chance to assist on refurbishing this berm and (hopefully permanently) fixing this steep section leading to another berm
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We've been getting a lot of rain which makes the soil workable. Haven't hooked up with a build crew yet, so just doing maintenance here and there. Opened up an S-turn yesterday from a couple blow downs...so might as well make a skinny.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...e0afc85c6a.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...c8046557fa.jpg
Another great day throwing dirt with @falcon3
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Finished up Greenland rework!
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Nice timing with the return of winter. We didn’t top out on Blast off… we have like 3 features left!
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Was motivated! Now things will hopefully all get dumped on with snow.Quote:
Originally Posted by SkiLyft
I've got a fairly massive drainage issue to deal with on some 7 year old trail but really want to put it off so as to ski pow
Drained the swamp. Half wheel deep series of linked puddles on Lower CBuster that developed over a decade since the last time we worked on it to raise the trailbed
Step 1. Dig a body sized hole for water to drain. You know those shows where protagonist digs 2m deep just using a shovel and no pick and they dig straight down and it looks so easy and quick!?! LIES!
Step 2. Gradually scoop and remove organic off trailbed. Let simmer and dry over a period of a day
Step 3. Come back a day later. Dig more holes for drainage in the (now much smaller puddles). Remove more muck. Place rock on spots prone to slumping. Place dirt and shape to taste.
Step 4. Finish in the dark, again. Thoughts and prayers that people will pay attention and not fall into obvious drainage ditches (the trail is used for night walks, night rides, and by lots of users, 800% increase in a decade).
Next. Yet more mudholes
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Nice work Lee!
Winter trail building spot in Kingman, Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnXXvjbL3JI
Nice RA!
"38 is cold!" [emoji16]
Looks like relatively tough soil to work with? Assuming moisture is really nice to have when it happens.
Thanks man. The soil is really easy to work with honestly but that's if you can find any. Those formations are mostly rock with small deposits of soil getting captured on small ledges and the like. When you dig into it and it's aerated it's incredibly light and fluffy but once you add water to it and some compaction it sets up really good. It has that magic amount of clay in it for adhesion. The jumps on that system weren't planned at all, we discovered soil deposits in little catch basins within the design that could be used for jumps. With Dad Jumps we had to rethink the design and rearrange a couple of junctions and add a little bit here and there.Quote:
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So what do you do, if anything, to modify the rock to make a trail? Watching the GoPro it was somewhat difficult to see where the trail was going, but that is probably just video. With granite, there was nothing we could do but add features to get up, down, and bridge between. Sometimes incredibly difficult or impossible, but riding natural rock is so fun. Here in SC the soil is ridiculously workable with moisture. Dry it's unpackable powder. But there is virtually no rock, so very little trials type tech. Steep af fast dh tech all over the place tho.
Yeah, there are a few spots where we had to jack hammer the rock or do some rock work to bridge a few gaps here and there but for the most part the place just provides. The rock is perfect for rolling tires in most places. That's what got me so excited on my first visit there. I met the City and Parks Manager and he asked me to go look around to see if more trails were a good idea, after I went on an exploratory hike I came running back to tell him that we HAD to build a legit system there because it was that damn good.Quote:
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We have been adding more and more white dots to make things easier to follow. This is especially helpful in the faster sections.
Jack hammer! That is a tool I haven't used building trail yet [emoji28]
Now that I'm back west side I'm going to make a trip to AZ for some riding at some point. A bunch of ec'ers were just in Sedona for a trip. I wanted to join, but my world is still a wee bit chaotic.
I'm being extremely lazy with my poison oak identification. Did a reroute due to a partial blowdown and the 70' widow remaining is soon to follow. But damn there was very little green in this spot, but I guess some oak was in there. Currently rashes between sock and knee pad on legs...and eye socket. Whata kook I am.
Reroute set up perfectly though with a little jump to start and flows into a preexisting big berm all on a downhill. Probably where the og line should have been from the beginning. Pic is not great.
OG line is left and the downed tree is blocking. A little reroute was made just to the right. My new reroute is far right. The rest of the widow is the tree with the big left-hand bend. The thing is huge and completely rotten. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/202...655d21d17f.jpg