Saturday, May 09, 2009

Cutting in new trail

MMBA Metro North had a trail day at stony today. Not sure how many people showed up but I would say 15-20. The first project was improve a berm at one of the downhill sections of the second new re-route that was put in over the winter. We also installed a draining pipe under the trail that will hopefully keep it nice and dry. Then we cut in a new section of trail in the re-route, so the re-route has a re-route. But I digress. This little section of trail has some bench cutting and a tough little climb, but we picked up 2 more rock gardens. There is another trail day planned for tomorrow, and the plan is to tackle another new section of trail. This new section is going to be big! We started to rake it in today, but 10 hot-n-ready pizzas were waiting for us, so that was all we did for the day.
I actually went home and got my bike and rode the new section. It is pretty cool, and the berm works really well. Stony is one of those places that gets so much traffic that new section will be packed down and in really good shape in no time at all.

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