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Post by timbarnes on Feb 17, 2011 20:31:48 GMT -5
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Post by timbarnes on Feb 18, 2011 17:46:39 GMT -5
I'll be at Walnut Ridge Picnic area around 8:30 am tomorrow (Saturday). I'll have extra tools for anyone who wants to help with the new trail. We'll probably work a couple of hours, then ride. Trails and weather ought to be great tomorrow.
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Post by smackgilbson on Feb 18, 2011 18:19:10 GMT -5
I am currently in Aspen snowboarding so I wont be there Saturday. Be back next week and plan on getting out there to do some work sometime soon.
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Post by nathan on Feb 19, 2011 12:38:24 GMT -5
I couldn't make it today. I got up at 6 and just couldn't wake up. Felt like a truck hit me.  |
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Post by timbarnes on Feb 19, 2011 13:05:58 GMT -5
Worked about three and a half hours extending the Walnut trail. Moved the "Trails End" sign another 50'. The new section is soft and will need some traffic to pack it down. There is a quick "up" between a couple of trees that makes it tricky. Enjoy. Continued working on the other side of the hill but its not ready to ride - yet.
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Post by timbarnes on Mar 1, 2011 14:23:59 GMT -5
Worked about three hours extending the Walnut trail. We'll have to wait for the dirt to dry out to do the final smoothing.
Saturday is a scheduled work day - 1st Saturday of the month - but forecast now calls for rain. We'll keep an eye on it and post here if we are going to try to work or not.
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Post by timbarnes on Mar 2, 2011 17:06:36 GMT -5
Did some more bench cutting past the "Trails End" sign and chainsawed a few downed trees in this section. Dirt is still wet and heavy!
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Post by timbarnes on Mar 3, 2011 10:17:30 GMT -5
With a 90% chance of rain for Friday and 100% chance for Saturday, we'll cancel the work session at Harmonie for Saturday. We'll try to have a good, long session on the 19th. We'll try to work on the newer sections that have seen more issues over the winter to get them ready for Spring riding. There are a couple of places on the Sycamore Loop that need attention, too, but these will hopefully be fixed with impromptu work sessions. Please let me know if you want to participate and need information where the problem areas are. Thanks.
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Post by daniel240 on Mar 17, 2011 12:50:13 GMT -5
Are we going to do a trail build day this Saturday?
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Post by timbarnes on Mar 17, 2011 15:15:28 GMT -5
Plan on being at Walnut at 8:30 am. Want to ride some. There is one spot near the "Trails End" sign that needs rock armoring. There was water flowing there today when the rest of the trail is PERFECT.
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Post by daniel240 on Mar 17, 2011 16:38:46 GMT -5
I will plan on being there.
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Post by timbarnes on Mar 19, 2011 12:27:41 GMT -5
Daniel, Steve Hoover, and I worked for about three hours extending the Walnut trail. We moved the "Trails End" sign. Enjoy this new twisty section. Please send feedback on how you like it.
This will be it for a while for new trail. We have to move in some on the new corridor and get it flagged before we can continue more work. Have to build a couple of bridges, too.
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Post by smackgilbson on Apr 2, 2011 0:46:11 GMT -5
I'm so glad to see more progress out at the park. I'm sorry I haven't been a part of making it happen but family calls you know.
Anyhow, I have been traveling a bit lately. Over spring break I was in Florida and rode a trail called Grahm's Swamp. Basically it was a 7 mile loop built on old coral reef and sand dunes thousands years old in a Florida forest. Most of the the trail is built by IMBA standards with some jump sections that remind me of scales lake but a bit gnarly because of the sand. By Florida standards the trail is demanding. And it is. Kinda like riding the sycamore loop at harmonie but every uphill you are throwing rooster tails of sand. On a dry day you slide around quiet a bit, again because of the sand factor which is how i rode it but, apparently if you ride this trail right after a rain the trail hardens up like concrete and gets real fast so i hear. I wasn't lucky enough to experience that.
The guys that work on these trails have came up with some great ways to to make the trail happen on most the time loose sand. By studying some of their work i kinda have some ideas on how to manipulate our silty sandy soil out at harmonie to work to our benefit. Which we are running into more and more as we get closer to the Wabash river.
I plan on being out at harmonie some time this week. If any one can join me give me a shout.
Plus it is scheduled work day today. At least i think. Its the first saturday of the month. I'll be there around 10:oo am I like to sleep in. good night
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Post by daniel240 on Apr 2, 2011 10:04:32 GMT -5
Hey Zach, glad your back! We decided not to have a trail build day today. Alex is at Ben Hawes and they are having one there today. Plus we are kind of at a stopping point at harmonie and waiting on Alex or Paul to flag some more trail.
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Post by smackgilbson on Apr 14, 2011 1:42:32 GMT -5
Alright!! I made some small "improvements" to the the walnut extension this evening. Mainly giving it some full benchcuts in in some sections where we were riding on "fluff" or soil that would give way while riding on it. Making these sections a little more sustainable.
I still think we should make a bail out trail somewhere close to the walnut shelter to give the trail a finished feel until we can open up some more trail. Maybe from the trails end sign up to the walnut shelter road/lane. From there we wont be bringing the trail out into someones proposed camp site.(which i really really hope that the park will follow thru with making primitive camping sites a reality with the reopening of the walnut shelter area, please please)
Anyhow, The trail looks good. and rides well. The 16th is the third Saturday of the month. do we want to have a work day?
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