We’d made significant progress on the previous day Our plans for Sunday were to use up the last of the material on a short section near the rock spine and then compact, dust and finish off the whole section. The air temperature was noticeably higher – it’d been hovering around 3 and 4 degrees […]
Trail build report: Sun 28th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
The trail on “the north side” is the oldest section, dating from mid 2008 and some minor tweaks in Sept 2009. This area had withstood 4 years of use without too much trouble until the summer of 2012. Numerous muddy pot holes had formed. The result of a very thin layer of material (15mm in
Trail build report: Sat 27th Oct 2012 – North side Read More »
We’ll be finished off the trail in the target area in the map below. There’s 400m of trail in various states and we hope to have the majority of it finished by this day, with just some topping up of material needed. After that we’re going to send a hit squad out onto the trail
Trail build: trail top up day. Read More »
We’ll be continuing with our number one priority to rebuild one of the oldest remaining sections. This has stood up to use quite well considering how thin the surfacing is but some parts of it are sinking. The map below shows the target area. There’s 400m of trail in various states and we hope to
Trail build day: the North Side pt3 Read More »
Earthline delivered 20 tonnes of material. This time we went for 18 tonnes of type 1 limestone and 2 tonnes of 10mm down rocks. This was used on the build days (Saturday and Sunday). Complete build diary. Future build events are shown on our calendar.
Trail build report: Fri 26th Oct 2012 – 20 tonnes of material Read More »
Phil and Jez spent a few hours building an anti-bike fence near the triangle entrance. This is designed to keep the bike trail and footpaths apart from each other. Full trail build diary.
Trail fixing session: Sunday 7th Oct 2012 – triangle fence Read More »
We had a head start because all 20 tonnes of material had been shifted on the previous day. We also had a new delivery option: Chris Bevington brought a trailer to tow behind his Hi-Lux. We set off for the triangle and split into two groups. One group concentrated on an adjustment to the trail
Build report: Sun 9th Sept 2012 -Triangle top up & North side Read More »
After a long rest period during the summer then we’re going to get back on with some trail building. Our number one priority is to rebuild one of the oldest remaining sections. This has stood up to use quite well considering how thin the surfacing is but some parts of it are sinking. The map
Trail build day: the North Side pt2 Read More »
Our plans for the weekend were to repair the section on the north side plus topping up various areas of trail that either had pot holes or had suffered over the wettest summer in 100 years. The section on the north side was one of the oldest remaining areas, having been surfaced in early 2008
Build report: Sat 8th Sept 2012 – North side and triangle top up Read More »
After a long rest period during the summer then we’re going to get back on with some trail building. Our number one priority is to rebuild one of the oldest remaining sections. This has stood up to use quite well considering how thin the surfacing is but some parts of it are sinking. The map
Trail build day: the North Side pt1 Read More »
