Cleaned Up

In one of the photos below where the two lines meet up with each other you will notice that I finally got the motivation to clean up the big pile of dead trees and limbs that I had stacked up.



I removed the "waterfall"


2 lines meeting up


I changed the second set in the main line. It's a little bigger and I removed the roller before it.


This is from when I made this landing bigger, then after this photo was taken Craig, Bo and I decided to enlarge it again.


Looking back at where the two lines meet up.

New Stuff

I've made a couple of changes to the lines. The step up that had the pallet in the landing has now been filled in to make it a "step up/table/roller". I've never seen anybody build anything like it, but that's not to say that it hasn't been done before. I hope that you'll be able to nose manual up and over the top. If you do, you'll be rolling over a 6ft tall roller.

These pics are of the end of the top line. I've still got a little bit ore work to do until it's finished, but I've made good progress in the past 2 days.

Rain Much?

The river is full.


The water somehow flooded all of the way back to the trails. The river had to rise at least 2 feet above everything. We are really far away from the river.




AS you can see, this huge tree that we had a lip stacked up against was moved by the flooding water. This tree is at least 60ft long. Hopefully the tools that we had hidden behind it didn't get washed down stream. But if the didn't, then they are sitting underneath the tree.




Every pit is full of water. We know where one of the 55 gallon drums is, but we are not sure where the second one is. If we can find it soon then we can fill them up within a short amount of time just using the water in the pits.

I have bucketed 135 gallons of water from 3 pits before, and now EVERY pit is overflowing with water. I think we need another 55 gallon drum!

Getting there

We gave everything in all of the lines a new face last week and I began to work on this line that we left sitting for the past 8 months. The lip with 2 carpets will be a left hip. However, the rain slowed me down so this thing won't be finished for another week or so.

Feel free to come dig if you live in the area.

Back to the grind

this is Timber. There was not a tree in that berm when I left yesterday.

The entire main line is in the middle of a facelift.

4 months = 1/3 of a year

That's how long it's been since I have been on here. A couple things have changed. Pete graduated, so now I'm working by myself. We didn't get out there too much last semester, but when we did, stuff got done. Trying to build new stuff and maintain what two people built by myself is very time consuming.

Towards the end of the semester we didn't go out there for 5 weeks. We heard that multiple people were going out and riding. Sometimes there were as many as 10+ people from what I was told. That's all fine and dandy, but they thought that Timber was theirs to have because the weeds were tall and the path was over grown. Not to mention the fact that some trees had fallen and golf balls were on the line.

I met a couple of the people and asked who tore down the step down. They said a couple people, but no names. The next day I went out and put a nice big roller where the step down was and made the pit after it a little deeper. It's much easier, faster and it does flow better. But the step down was difficult and put there to keep people that can't ride very well from messing up anything after it.

Those people got their 3 weeks of "building" trails and have yet to come back. One guy even started a loop, but hasn't even tried to finish it. I've tried to get the new line going that I started in January, but haven't had the time or help. Oh, and I got poison ivy working on it also. Due to that and summer school I haven't been able to make it out for over 2 weeks....until yesterday. I scraped the pits and did some clearing before making 2 runs through the line. It was really good eventhough the area is covered with 6 foot tall weeds.

If anybody wants to ride, leave comment or email me and I can let you knowif it's running or not. I'm taking "applications" for people who would want to help me with up-keep and building new lines. If it works out, you could consider yourself a "local".

The Bottom was Soft

The main line was a little too wet and soft to make it through when I went out to ride the other day. The top part of the 2nd line was tacky and good, so I had Amy film me cruisin' through the 'S' berm and dropping into the wall. There still are tweaks that need to be made before the first berm, but it's good enough for now. Here are a couple of ways to get into the top line. The 1st berm in the original line was kind of slick so I had to approach it like a timid little cat. That is the only reason I case the step up into the pit. When it's dry and fast, it's easy.