We were joined on this build day by Kate and James. The diary is sketchy – it looks like we tweeked the trail on the north east corner, adding what we call the “roller coaster” corner. We then moved down the east side cutting the trail to the pond and round the section there. Most […]
Trail build report: 19th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
This was another early trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We continued cutting out a route in the woods on the East side of the pitch. None of this was ever used – we went for a more direct line as a temporary measure and that was then adopted as the proper
Trail build report: 18th Oct – route cutting on East side Read More »
This was a trail build day with just Phil and Tom present. We carried on cutting out the new line on the North side of the pitch and also cut a load of new route on the East side. The North part was tweeked slightly on later build days: a section was moved further up
Trail build report: 12th Oct – route cutting on North and East side Read More »
This was a build evening for Phil and Tom. When we arrived then the basis of a route on the North side of the pitch had already been marked out by Steve Smith and his wife. They were responsible for the trail at that time, relinquishing this to Phil in early 2009. We quickly reached
Trail build report: 11th Oct – route cutting on North side Read More »
This was our second trail build day (Phil and Tom). At that time we had no idea where this project was going to go. We just saw a trail with potential and wanted to start making some changes to it. For this day we built berms on two flat corners that we felt needed them.
Second trail build day – berm shaping Read More »
This was the very first build day for what was to become the MBSwindon club 18 months later. Phil had heard about the trail in the woods behind Nationwide and taken a look. He asked me (Tom) if I was up for a spot of trail building and I said yes. We spotted a nice
First trail build day – rock moving and berm shaping Read More »
