3rd June - Black Run - Course repair

Sunday brought baking sunshine, a mild breeze and an opportunity to get some serious trailbuilding done.

The sunshine also brought an excellent turnout, so many in fact that we ran out of tools towards the end of the day. We split into two groups with Stuart's group of trailbuilders repairing the stepdown level with the causeway, and Alex's group of trailbuilders working further up the hill, reshaping a corner.

Work started with the beginings of repairing the small stepdown level with the causeway. Twelve months of people riding round it had damaged the jump consideraby. Timber supports were used to hold the sides of the jump in and prevent further erosion from people using the chicken-line.

The shape of the takeoff hasn't changed but the jump is now much safer to hit, with no prospect of drifting down the gully created by too many people riding round. That said, we've made it no easier with the landing still being a sniper affair. A trip to the dirt still beckons if you get it wrong.


Further up the hill, we re-cut the corner above the first rock section to encourage people to ride the features rather than the chicken lines.

Gord, Jon and Paul cut the new line in

Alex, Jon and Paul all crash tested it halfway through, trying to find the right line with Jim just about making it through.

Finished product

With the corner re-cut, the top section is now much faster, with a lot of riders entering the sharp right-left around the big treestump too fast to stay on thier bikes!

New small berm before the upper rockgarden

Next official build day will be 24th June.