Phil and myself (Tom) did a test ride of the trail. Here’s our feedback which was posted on the Facebook group at the time: “ Phil and myself did a test ride this afternoon. We’ve identified a whole load of things that don’t make sense on the route, but on the plus side there’s several […]
Trail build report: 24th Dec – test ride Read More »
Phil and myself (Tom) continued our work on the first rock garden feature. We then made a start on the second major rock garden on the trail. We built the lower section of this. The rock feature was finished a few weeks later and the first time I rode it was quite scary. We pretty
Trail build report: 21st Dec – first and second rock garden Read More »
Phil and myself (Tom) spent the afternoon working on the first rock garden feature. We did modify it slightly a few weeks after building it by making a bit wider in the middle. It’s quite a tricky little feature. Full trail build diary.
Trail build report: 20th Dec – first rock garden Read More »
A deluge of rain meant that some of the woodwork section had floated away. We spent the morning retrieving the missing sections. We tackled the source of the problem by removing overgrown trees from the banks of the river. (At a later date the council came along and cut a massive branch away downstream and
Trail build report: 14th Dec 2008 – flood. Rock moving to Piper’s hill Read More »
We’d used the Land Rover to move the red type one stone to the South side of the pitch on the previous day. When we arrived then the piles of gravel had frozen solid and we had to smash them to get them moving. Phil and myself spent the day raking out the material and
Trail build report: 7th Dec 2008 – South side continued Read More »
We made brilliant progress today, digging out 150m of trail and surfacing about 80% of that, with the necessary materials in place to finish it off on Sunday. This is on the Southern edge of the football pitch. We had the Land Rover today, so were able to dump material straight onto the trail. We
Trail build report: 6th Dec 2008 – South side of pitch Read More »
Saturday 29th Nov 2008 From our Facebook group: “We managed loads this afternoon. There were four of us: Kate and James along with Phil and myself (Tom). We dug out and surfaced the section from the South-West corner of the pitch up to the club house. Tomorrow we should surface the remaining part of that
Trail build report: 29th & 30th Nov – West side finished Read More »
From our Facebook group: “Phil and myself spent a few hours digging and surfacing today. The gravelled section is now level with the Southern end of the pavillion. We’ve dug out a load more, ready for some more Land Rover based dumping”. From the photos you can see that we finished the rock feature as
Trail build report: 9th Nov – West side Read More »
This was the first time that Rafe joined us with his Land Rover. After receiving a sense of humour upgrade then Rafe went on to be a founding member of the club – delivering this website to us for the price of a take away curry. From our facebook page: “We had a good day
Trail build report: 8th Nov – gravel moving and exit rock Read More »
From our facebook page: “A massive turnout for the action day of, er, just the four of us (Mr and Mrs Steve Smith, Phil and Tom). We got loads done anyway. We started at 8am and worked on the last bit in reverse. I cleared through the undergrowth to connect to the existing part just
Trail build report: 2nd Nov – trail exit Read More »
