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11-07-2022, 09:44 AM #1076
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11-07-2022, 10:29 AM #1078
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11-07-2022, 01:55 PM #1079
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11-09-2022, 02:50 PM #1080
We were just tasked with four new builds before March. If the snow holds off we may be able to pull it off. It it doesn't we're phucked. The land is going to a town vote, so the goal is to have it complete before then.
My plan is just blow them out and then go back and reroute/fix everything thats a mess after the fact, assuming (big ASSumption!) established trails will be grandfathered, therefore tweaks will be able to be made.
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11-09-2022, 03:21 PM #1081Registered User
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11-10-2022, 07:13 AM #1082
Yup. Gonna use the blower, rake, and chainsaw. Aim for all the boulders and features, go around them and then go back and incorporate into the trail later. This area has to have B-lines anyway, so it should work out fine.
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11-10-2022, 07:23 AM #1083
My favorite trail system is 100 percent rake and ride. Cady Falls Nursery
So is my backyard trail build, I bench cut just the spot that needed it.
I find rake and ride especially trail with out any "borders" like guide stones, tend to be flowier than 99 percent of machine built flow in this area. Why every new trail in the Stowe Area has to be machine built is beyond me, except Serenity and Adrenaline which I ill freely admit is well beyond my skinny skill.
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11-21-2022, 09:50 AM #1084
We opened two new ones yesterday. Pretty psyched to blow these ones out. In the little bit of digging we were amazed at the quality of dirt! That never happens in the granite state! Tweaks will need to be made like usual.
Nice little natural airs mixed in.
Got the skinny plane cut too. More friendly for the masses.
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11-28-2022, 10:03 AM #1085
Three more finished up this weekend. I was part of two of them, not the slow tech line, but that one is fun. I think we're done for now except cleaning landings and tweaking. Pretty happy as the two we finished are primarily Downs with very little pedaling.
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12-04-2022, 06:02 PM #1086
A local Mason and rippin mtn biker built this trail. This turn is awesome. Super tight and techy rock berm. One specific line and if your on it, it flows perfectly, otherwise not so much. Could not get a good pic from perspective going into it. My bike is off trail behind the corner.
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12-05-2022, 11:35 AM #1087
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12-20-2022, 09:40 AM #1088
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12-20-2022, 09:43 AM #1089dirtbag, not a dentist
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12-21-2022, 04:40 PM #1090Not a skibum
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Anyone ever use a home foundation water barrier to help keep trail/pump track from getting water across the trail tread?
Few roller troughs of my pump track are adjacent to a big hill and getting hammered by water and subsequently bad frost heaving.
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12-21-2022, 05:56 PM #1091
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12-21-2022, 06:52 PM #1092
I've used buried perforated pipe to pull water away from a pump track and put it further down the hill. Worked ok-ish.
Ultimately, I find the problem is that pump tracks generally need to be pretty damn dry to not rut out, and no matter what I've done, there's always gonna be some moisture hanging around during wet weather.
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12-21-2022, 07:23 PM #1093Not a skibum
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Dig stoke, who else likes to play in the dirt???
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Steep uphill from grass to right of picture, so groundwater running into low spot and now major frost heave. Somewhat inevitable given location, hoping to minimize it to keep it a bit drier. Kicking around a trench at grass-line go divert water or the foundation barrier at edge of grass line here.
Zoomed out, middle roller next to grass where all the water flowing into troughs.
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12-21-2022, 08:51 PM #1094Registered User
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We've experimented with a few things on local trails. In a couple spots we buried French drain perforated pipe (without fabric cover) and it works well at first but eventually silts up. This doesn't work as well in clayey soils (i.e. my backyard french drains don't work well), and a lot of pump tracks have a significant amount of clay in them. Adding filter fabric and drain rock around the perforated pipe really helps for french drains, provided the soil itself around drains.
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Other spots have mined out chunks of rock, buried them in the drain line, and filled in with dirt. Works ok (water follows the rocks but can't stay and puddle since the rocks are impermeable), doesn't require maintenance, but only works where there is rock (or where you want rock). Finally, the hackiest way is to simply bury a ~4-6" branch across the trail. Like the rock trick, the water will follow the branch. The advantage to this is when it starts to get kind of rutted or silted out, you can just lift up the branch, clean out the slot, replace the branch, and put in the most sandy soil you can find nearby.
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12-22-2022, 06:43 AM #1095Registered User
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We use standard foundation drainage systems all the time to deal with persistent seeps adjacent to or directly under trails. Plan your drainage, dig it out, lay down your filter cloth, position your perforated pipe, fill with drain rock (or whatever rock you can find), wrap the whole thing with the filter cloth, and cap with dirt. Works a charm.
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12-22-2022, 07:21 AM #1096
I can't tell from that photo but are you using one of those cloth sock things around the drain pipe too? So filter cloth around the actual pipe, and more filter cloth around the entire thing?
I've read rounded river rock drains best (lots of space between rocks) versus crushed gravel type rock (less space).
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12-22-2022, 09:11 AM #1097Registered User
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Round rock (like pea gravel) will never consolidate. It will drain better (think riverbed) but it's terrible for roads / paths. Crushed rock will consolidate but still retain some space. For a pump track, I'd use crushed. You want to order crushed washed though - if you get unwashed it will have a bunch of fines mixed in that will inhibit water flow.
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12-22-2022, 06:17 PM #1098
Drainage is just a lot of work and material to make sustainable and every trail can have its nuances. Or it's a lot of maintenance. Santa Cruz Trails on insta shows some build techniques.
A builder here just rerouted a berm turn that someone else built. It had pipe drainage but would silt up and was a constant puddle. He apparently went out west and took a trail building class or something...idk...maybe worked for a builder. I've yet to meet him and we just worked on a new build together just never at the same time! Anyway, he killed it. Turn is so much better and drains well.
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12-24-2022, 10:05 AM #1099
Got some rain last week, so it was time to get out there. Cleaned out all the drains on a couple trails, re-established some bench and fixed up a few rollers.
A ride around was forming around this drop that has a flat landing so I reinstalled a rock transition.
Then re-established this rock hip jump using dirt from a hole I dug in said ride around. The rock roll above leads right into this hip so hopefully people will abandon the ride around to hit these.
And another roller to touch up. A hole was forming below the rock where front/rear wheels touch down.
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12-24-2022, 10:15 AM #1100
Also made it back up to the mountains recently to work on my restoration project.
The area burned in 2013 and was under closure order that ended in 2018 right before another big fire hit. So has seen zero maintenance and minimal use since the first fire.
Picked up an electric chainsaw recently hoping it would work to cut out thick sage along the trail and some manzanita on a couple re-routes I want to do. That was good timing, as a few trees had blown over the trail.
It did a pretty good job on this bigger tree, required a cut from each side to get through it.
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