trail days

Powers Creek Trail Day

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Time to buff out those trails.  And with the first rain in weeks, it’s looking good to build out there.

Dan, you thought you’d gotten out of the club scene didn’t you (he used to be the President of the NSMBA)?

Nothing major got built today, but almost the entire trail of Builder’s Only got smoothed out and buffed.

Justin, Rich, and a few others also went out to 2.5 and cleared a ton of deadfall from the winter.

The rest of us moved huge rocks around and filled in all the holes.

The crew at Outbound kept us fed and watched the bikes so we could rip.

Can’t do this on the Shore either…

Wildlife sighting, one small purple dinosaur at the bottom of the mountain.  Those things are endangered, eh?

Powers Creek Trail Day

Posted on by Smoke

It’s maintenance time again, courtesy of the MTBco and Outbound Cycle….and of course yours truly.

Awww… baby’s first trail day. There’s all my girls.

We thought be doing a trail day in the fall that we’d have great conditions to buff out the trail.

Well, maybe it’s a bit too dry. We did manage a few good things, but mostly we made piles of sand and clouds of dust.

Some much needed carpentry got done on the failing teeters at the swamp.

Some lucky gack winners. You should always stay to the end. No mail in prizes here.

Oh, and some new work got opened near the bottom. Justin’s creation finally is finished, and it’s a good’un. Schnepf styled it out for the camera (note that he did NOT dig today. He’s sort of A.D.D., we’ll let it go this time).

MTBco Gillard Cleanup

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From MTBco.ca

The second trail cleanup day of 2008 proved to be a huge success. MTBco would like to thank every one of you who turned out to help, you guys were just awesome. Also our thanks to Eve-Lyn Wolters at RDCO for your ongoing help and support.

An awesome turnout of 35 volunteers worked on Gillard Forest Service Road on access trails to remove a huge amount of garbage. The photos speak for themselves, and MTBco would like to thank everyone who turned out to help on what turned out to be a beautiful sunny Okanagan blue-sky day. You guys rocked the bush today !

This is how we do it Central Okanagan style. We had a quick clean up of all accumulated debris from the shuttle parking lot and removal of nails from the parking area.

Start of the day, and we’re just getting into it:

Garbage pile at Rubber Down AKA Camp Dumpalot:

Unloading at the shuttle area:

The second huge garbage pile at the shuttle area:

Not just hard work, there was play too ! Free shuttles courtesy of Bush Pilot Biking:

Ryan gets down to ground level to check out the pure butteryness of this freshly buffed section of Yo Moma:

Stay tuned for more clean ups in the future-come lend a hand!