Dig stoke, who else likes to play in the dirt???

[toast2266]

To a break from drywalling to build a quick side hit on one of the roads in our little trail network yesterday.

[SkiLyft]

Looks fun, can send as big or small as you want


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[jackstraw]

Side hits are so fun! Riding new trails I'm always bummed when I see them too late or not enough speed.

My kid and friend did some berm building and tuning yesterday.

[SkiLyft]

Stacking dirt


Super stoked on this next feature.
6-8 foot wall to sharkfin; gap feature to another massive berm about 7-8 foot tall as a catch on the other side. Should be a really fun feature that requires a bike position change mid gap.

Met one of the original builders from the late 90s today. Trail hasn’t been touched since 2000!

Starting point

Progress

Moar progress


12 hours in on her today and she’s about half done.


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[SkiLyft]

Buddy dug the last 2 days and wrapped up the take off!!!



Moved a ton of dirt today to start shaping the catch.




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[toast2266]

^^^ siiiick.

That at beacon?

[NW_SKIER]

^^^ siiiick.

That at beacon?

Indeed.

[SkiLyft]

Yeah, Sekani side — blast off is the trail.


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[raisingarizona13]

Buddy dug the last 2 days and wrapped up the take off!!!



Moved a ton of dirt today to start shaping the catch.




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That's f-in dope. I've been dreaming about doing some berm to berm transfer gaps. I haven't had the opportunity yet but I can't wait for it. That's beautiful man.

[SkiLyft]

Dude thanks; big ass effort by all the crew. Thefortrees is calling it the biggest hand built feature east of the cascades and we’ll take it!


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[toast2266]

Yeah, Sekani side — blast off is the trail.


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Sweet. I'm gonna have to get over there next spring and check it out!

[jackstraw]

Holy shit! That's hand-built!? Amazing! What an effort [emoji106]

[Clownshoe]

Buddy dug the last 2 days and wrapped up the take off!!!



Moved a ton of dirt today to start shaping the catch.




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Beauty work. That's excavator work done by hand! Holy shit.

[Dantheman]

That's awesome. I Street bike park in SLC has some comparable features that are 100% hand-built.

[SkiLyft]

Woot, about one day out from wrapping up the catch!! Multiple bike trains went down today and she rips!!






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[SkiLyft]

Running out of digging weather!! Good thing too as we have one last landing to finish

Brought up my helmet today and hit the berm2berm feature through the last hip. Holy fuck these are dialed!







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[WaistDeepGroomers]

Wow. That's incredible! All dug by hand from the ground next to the trail? No roots??

Been working all fall on drainage issues and adding in some fun berms in critical corners and making some boulders into takeoffs and overall more fun across some of our beat to frig Maine trails. The clay (which sits under 6-10" of root map, oi vey) is proving to be challenging to work with. Seems very sensitive to moisture and if it gets wet, it takes forever to dry (a cluster of the best trails are on a shaded NE-facing wooded hillside). Any tips other than making sure everything drains super easy?

[jackstraw]

Clay is a shitshow. See XLR8 at Fort Rock. That trail is unrideable for days/weeks after a rain which was pretty much all year ty.

Speaking of which...folks need to step up to save these trails.

[SkiLyft]

Wow. That's incredible! All dug by hand from the ground next to the trail? No roots??

Been working all fall on drainage issues and adding in some fun berms in critical corners and making some boulders into takeoffs and overall more fun across some of our beat to frig Maine trails. The clay (which sits under 6-10" of root map, oi vey) is proving to be challenging to work with. Seems very sensitive to moisture and if it gets wet, it takes forever to dry (a cluster of the best trails are on a shaded NE-facing wooded hillside). Any tips other than making sure everything drains super easy?

It’s a system; we dig a shovel depth down and take roots with it. This helps us shape the general form and not lose our mind picking out roots.

Once we heel pack the feature the face gets 3-6” of “good dirt”. We get that by skimming our pit and additional 2-4” down. Here in Spokane it’s a sandy mixture that hardens really well — almost like concrete with a bit of moisture.

That said there are a few small micro roots that we rake out on the feature then tamp it down with a McLeod.

Clay (proper clay) sucks.. seems you’d have to shovel dry-ish.


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[jackstraw]

Little bit of maintenance today. Need more moisture to get more done, but when we do working with this soil will be really fun.

[LeeLau]

Got some work done while waiting for snow. Success as it started snowing as I left!

[LeeLau]

Omg skiing sucks ass which I suppose is good for trailwork

[Abies]

Another new bridge, this one using found redwood logs and milled decking. Scraped away the outer rotted layer and the rest of the wood was good, should hold up for years.


This is a green trail that’s supposed to be multidirectional but it’s pretty steep in places. The trail used to go to the left and straight through the drainage. The bench cut above required a lot of digging and fill and the soil is mostly rock. It needs more work.


One of the issues is the rock sticking out to the left. The tread is still too narrow to the outside of it but it will be a cool lip to launch on the downhill.




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[SkiLyft]

Making some lemonade..

Big ass rock hip to landing - about 15’ gap


To berm



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[LeeLau]

More from the skiing is ass therfore pave trails files