2/8/10 Trails are riding good these days with reinforcing rains before the cold fronts pass. Next chances are Tuesday night and Friday night before the fronts pass. Perfect riding weather each day.

Big thanks to Steve M., a local JDSP rider who donated two trailer loads of wood for the trail. We really do appreciate it!

Look for more wood berm corners to be installed soon. Fight the sand!

 

Recent Maintenance

2/3/10 Face smackin' saw palmettos have been trimmed on Walden & Root Loop.

1/31/10 The left fork in the trail at the sandy drop on Middle Ridge has a completed sand ladder that hooks up with the main trail. It's unofficially called Chip's Drop. Left/black and blue/right arrows designate section difficulty.

1/30/10 The 2nd green arrow bypass on Hare has been bordered and mulched. The mulch is soft but it should pack down in a couple of weeks.

1/27/10 Ranger has been brushhogged

1/23/10 8/10 has a new sandladder around a downhill curve. It includes 2 step downs, the ladder and a 3rd step which you could get a little air if you wanted to.

1/18/10 8/10 has been brushhogged and trimmed.

1/2/10 Palmetto & Half Pipe Bypass has been brushhogged and trimmed.

12/31/09 Big Burn & Middle Ridge has been brushhogged.

Big Burn - The first big climb at the start, added 30ft. of slightly banked sand ladder to the left turn at the foot of the climb and 22ft. of sand ladder to the right turn at the top for the final climb.

The back side of the first big climb added natural mulch such as bark, decaying logs and pine needles in the turn with logs for banking. Then added another natural mulch to cover a sand pit area and added 10ft. log roll which included nine logs to stabilize the sand. Will need a few rides to smooth out the natural areas but it will be well worth it.

12/29/09 Hare has been brushhogged and the following courtesy of Fred G....

Hare's first section with an uphill climb and soft shifting sand, added 20ft. of sand ladder, slightly banked, to let riders maintain speed through the valley.

At the Camp Murphy site on Hare, trees preventing the use of the green bypass, cleared a medium and a small pine tree blocking the green bypass.

Final decent before leaving Hare, reconstructed the downhill bridge which had all but disappeared but a little digging brought it up to the surface.

Fire Ring - The very last corner with soft shifting sandy, a lot of riders bogging down, added a sand ladder in the corner. Should stabilize the corner and let riders catch a breath before attacking the decent into Prickly Pear.

8/10 - First 1/3 of trail, added a mulch track with all natural mulch, decayed bark and dead tree branches, should help to stabilize a soft sand. The more organics the better.

12/28/09 Tortoise has been brushhogged

12/27/09 Trailwork by Fred G. & Bryan F.

Tortoise - The carpet has been removed and a banked sand ladder has been installed. Approximately 5 feet.

8/10 - Second hill climb after a small burn section with fallen trees lining the trail, there are two sections on the climb with soft sand. Two sand ladders have been installed to assist in the climb and protect the trail from erosion. Approximately 30 and 20ft.

12/20 - 12/23/09 Trailwork by Fred G.

Ranger - Near the end, the broken up K-Mart ladder on the last hill climb with the nails protruding has been replaced. The original K-Mart support beams have been maintained. Extended the sand ladder.

Osprey - At the start, a tree was blocking the path and a make shift logover had been constructed. I converted that into two triple logovers and a small single log warm-up, spaced nicely on top of the ridge before the descent into Osprey.

Root Loop - Trimmed saw palmettos.

Palmetto - At the start, a tree was blocking the path. The tree was converted that into three single logovers about 15 feet apart, like cyclocross. A simple triple logover halfway up the Palmetto hill climb after the roots where a tree had fallen was added. The old log over after the top of the Palmetto hill climb that had been decaying for some time, the remains of the same tree was used to restore the log over. A large tree had been waiting to fall for some time and this weekend it did, on the downhill before the last climb to the rocky road. It made a very nice large logover. This logover would be worth the trip out to JDSP.

Half Pipe - The last drop before the Gag Water Bridge. The logs were replaced and reset, many of the original logs were saved. It's like new, bumpy, safer and just as much fun. The sandladder out of the log drop was dissembled and replaced with some stabilizing posts to keep it in place.

8/10 - The launch pad where people have been bottoming out and grinding their chain rings on right before the last log over when leaving has been modified. The bank under the platform was eroding away changing the mulch transition. Four specially cut logs were added into the transition to so that the transition can be rolled out. Still looks scary but there is an out.

Hare - The bypass around the second to last Camp Murphy site was trimmed out removing some encroaching thorns.