We’ve had a bit of a rest from trail building during the summer of 2012. The trail has held up really well after a lot of rain and traffic levels. There are a few minor issues to be dealt with here and there, plus a few areas that are trapping water. The main priority section […]
Trail build plans 2012 Read More »
This was our last trail build day before our summer rest. We’d made excellent progress over the early part of 2012 and the new triangle section was finished. The plan was to do some minor jobs ready for the summer season. Upcoming events include our open day on the 1st April, the Prospect Ride on
Trail build report: Sat 24th March 2012 – trail tidy day Read More »
Meeting at 10am in the Croft Trail car park. Our plans for this day are to do some light tidying jobs ready for the April open day. Things like collecting up bits of wood from trail building, lopping branches and generally getting it in shape. See what we got up to at our second February
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Meeting at 10am in the Croft Trail car park. Our plans for this day are to finish off a few odd jobs ready for our April open day. We’ve got some areas that need filling in with material (that will have been moved on the first March build day) plus tweeking a few features in
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Saturday had been a sunny spring day. Sunday was different; it was raining at 10am when we arrived. Phil and myself (Tom) made a start on the berm for the triangle entrance. As the rain turned to sleet and then snow we were cheered by the arrival of John Speed. We moved the last of
Trail build report: Sun 4th March – triangle entrance and resurfacing Read More »
We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of
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These special artistic effects were produced by using a very low spec camera on a phone (Nokia C1-01). It was finally looking like spring on Saturday morning at 9am when Brandon Hire delivered the compactor (whacker). Jez brought the tools round and I kept myself entertained fixing the puncture on one of the wheel barrows
Trail build report: Sat 3rd March – gravel shifting and resurfacing Read More »
We did a lot in 2011 – see the build diary round up. The plan for early 2012 is to finish the new triangle section (bottom right in the map below). This will add around 950m of new trail including two new bridges, some rock features, an optional elevated wood section and a load of
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Earthline delivered 20 tonnes of type 1 limestone to the car park today. This is going to be shifted on the upcoming trail build day (our trail build days are always listed on the events page). It’s going to be used to finish of the triangle entrance and for resurfacing jobs (west side of pitch,
Trail build report: 1st March 2012 – 20 tonnes delivered Read More »
It snowed on the previous day and then thawed out on Sunday morning. This was good in terms being able to dig the ground, but not good in terms of water levels. We had planned on resurfacing the back straight using material that we’d already moved. In the ideal world then new trail should be
Trail build report: Sun 5th Feb Final triangle surfacing Read More »
