Dig stoke, who else likes to play in the dirt???

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Got in over my head trying to move a big rock out of some bench cut. Gave up and built around the rock

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haha, that immediately reminded me of this situation, where i really wanted to belly out the landing of a jump and found a nice rock buried...
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you can see i recruited everyone to manhandle the rock, while i worked on the exit jump behind them :rolleyes:


going back to grad school has been crushing me so not much dig time lately, but just got a summer internship across the street from local bike park so excited for shovel slaps after work this summer

Old trail section we last worked on 6 years ago had a groove worn into it from lots of traffic. Outside of turn had a drainage ditch into which people were inexplicably riding (nobody said mountainbikers were competent).

Dug the drainage ditch bigger to give the standing water somewhere to go. Excavated ditch bigger and built up the ild trail bed. Seperated rocks and mineral soil; using rocks to create rock cribbed drainage ditch. Used mineral soil to crown the trail bed. Final touch to renaturalize the areahttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...47a25c57b2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...0117fd2a99.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...46f9a1c632.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...d6ce9de1c2.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...cd7c5c7767.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5127e8db6e.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...6ebb800f42.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...cc6a6a14a4.jpg

Dug out a nice drain for water to go which.then yielded mineral soil. Piled the soil storing it for use to crown the trailbed. Drained the mudhole. Restored old trail. Renaturalized drain.

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Hmm leave it to me to not know this 6yr old thread exists.. shows how much I've been checking the board lately.

First one is my favorite pic from last summer, built by deer mostly, elk bear and random woodsy also helped I'm sure. Second is the joys of building a green sidewalk thru the San Juans, just gotta think of it as a 5mile long zen garden
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Some finished product.. obviously not just me building. Flow on Lil jerry
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Some of these rangers/land managers need to pull the stix out of their asses. Since my heart attack at the end of December I've been hiking for rehab and where do you think I want to hike? Mt bike trail areas of course :) While I'm walking I clear derailleur hanger snappers, clear blocked drains and corners, move downed large branches or small trees and just generally do quick maintenance.

A few days ago I almost got a ticket for doing unauthorized trail work when I was spotted kicking sticks out of the way with my foot. The ranger was such a dick! Basic work keeping things clean and in good shape has always been encouraged, at least for the 30 years or so that I've been riding. WTF changed?

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Some finished product.. obviously not just me building. Flow on Lil jerry
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Please tell me that's less boring than it looks?

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Some of these rangers/land managers need to pull the stix out of their asses. Since my heart attack at the end of December I've been hiking for rehab and where do you think I want to hike? Mt bike trail areas of course :) While I'm walking I clear derailleur hanger snappers, clear blocked drains and corners, move downed large branches or small trees and just generally do quick maintenance.

A few days ago I almost got a ticket for doing unauthorized trail work when I was spotted kicking sticks out of the way with my foot. The ranger was such a dick! Basic work keeping things clean and in good shape has always been encouraged, at least for the 30 years or so that I've been riding. WTF changed?

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That's messed up.

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Please tell me that's less boring than it looks?

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...it is a green trail. It does had some huge berms, and rollers. Hopefully people hold judgment until they ride it.. cuz it's pretty fun in a groomer mobbin sort of mentality

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I've been hearing we don't do enough forest raking down here.


Spent the whole day working on our nearly finished "flow" trail Sunday.. We had a huge group, like 30 people, and got a lot done. Tonight we're going to try to run some plate compactors down it which should be interesting.

Reloaming your favourite holes.

Pic 1 - trail a bit worn after 6 years.

Pic 2 - hole filled in with loam.

Pic 3 - raked pine needles over the loam to make it look all purty.

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Man, this battery chainsaw makes my life so much easier. I used to cringe when seeing a new blowdown and now it's a piece of cake.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5b099f59b7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7eaed88cf4.jpg

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Man, this battery chainsaw makes my life so much easier. I used to cringe when seeing a new blowdown and now it's a piece of cake.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...5b099f59b7.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...7eaed88cf4.jpg

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How long does yours last? Ive got a Ryobi and it's not the longest lasting

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How long does yours last? Ive got a Ryobi and it's not the longest lasting

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It lasts a long time. I've only run out of juice once and I was done at that point anyway. I had ripped a long skinny and had cut several trees at that point. Ripping takes a lot of juice. Milwaukee's 12.0 amp hour battery has legs.

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It lasts a long time. I've only run out of juice once and I was done at that point anyway. I had ripped a long skinny and had cut several trees at that point. Ripping takes a lot of juice. Milwaukee's 12.0 amp hour battery has legs.

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How much does it weigh with the battery? Milwaukee's site gives the same weight for both tool only and for the kit so I assume that weight is for the tool. They don't have a weight on the battery.

I don't know how much it weighs. It's totally manageable in my old Lowe backpack while riding. I usually have extra Wesson oil in the pack also. If the battery is low I'll bring a smaller spare with me also.

It shaved this long one nicely.https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...3a0fba3d4d.jpg

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Snack break at the top of his favorite trail. Slate Ave buffed out and ready to ride.

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Been digging a lot around the house to have an option For the kids without getting in the car..

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Not real trailwork but did a couple rides today to check out how overgrown the trails are. The answer - pretty overgrown on some side trails. Lots of rain plus warming temps have caused brush to explode. Lots of poison oak too. And some downed trees to cut out. Will be back to do some trimming!

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Ride #2 at another area I babysit. Somewhat overgrown and only a little PO. I seem to spend a lot more time here undoing the stupid shit that other people do - b-lines around every trivial rock; shortcuts; cairns; sanitizing lines.

Not sure why cairns annoy me so much but I always remove them. This is a very obvious intersection unless your head is too far up your ass to notice all the tire tracks turning onto the trail.

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Much better...

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The dirt in this area is very erodable. Here the trail used to be level with the top of these two rocks but has been worn away to the point where its very hard to get through here. This is the very top of a steep switchback. Both rocks are embedded and won't budge so I'll probably build up a ramp/platform in between them to ride over. Everyone here seems to freak out at rocks so I'm sure that will be as big of a problem as the narrow squeeze.

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Around the next corner people is a b-line that formed because the smooth rock line on the left is SO SCARY!!! I've been blocking and re-blocking the cheater line for a couple years. Going to get a group out and plunk a huge boulder on that line that can't be moved. I know, first world problems and I shouldn't care but people are so fucking lame here, every trivial rock has to have a go round. Fuck them....

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The trail here went up and over this little roller on the left. The horror! Of course a line through the gap formed immediately. I've been meaning to plug it with a ramp so people are forced onto a rock roll.

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I see the same thing, constant ride arounds of rock features, to the point where the actual feature becomes unrideable because the detour has compressed the dirt so much you end up with a big ledge, instead of just a roll. But then the same thing seems to happen with every rooty section. But it is going to happen unless there is only one possible line, at least that is better than people doing things like removing the rocks.

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Rough cutting a new project: Valle de Le Bruja.

Saw this while reading another article someone posted, pretty funny. Trail runners actually do a fair amount of work around here (while claiming that they do a LOT of work)

https://www.outsideonline.com/239692...lazy-parasites

"Anna Zawisza, director of community relations and strategic partnership with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC), the state’s oldest and largest organizer of trail crews, ranks trail-runner turnout right down there with public-trail-riding equestrians"

Cutting new trail above Golden

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Cutting new trail above Golden

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Hand built trail!?!?! My local land managers and trail orgs. tell me this will never work. Won't last more than a week.

Seriously though, looks great!

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Hand built trail!?!?! My local land managers and trail orgs. tell me this will never work. Won't last more than a week.

Seriously though, looks great!

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Yep, they are "hand building as much as possible." It won't be a long trail, under a mile, but should be fun once completed.

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Yep, they are "hand building as much as possible." It won't be a long trail, under a mile, but should be fun once completed.

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I rode Golden once. We had no idea where we were going but we really enjoyed it. You guys have nice trails with quick access.

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I rode Golden once. We had no idea where we were going but we really enjoyed it. You guys have nice trails with quick access.

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If you listen to the vocal naysayers, the Front Range is "THE WORST PLACE EVER FOR MOUNTAIN BIKERS!!!!" Which yes, it's busy, and yes, we need more trails, and yes, we need directional and bike-only trails, but the local riding around here is really pretty damn good.

Its always a good day to.build teeter tottershttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...674ae806c9.jpghttps://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...68bb9114e2.jpg

For the last 3 years, I've been working on stringing together a long (for Vermont) DH single track off the "Backside" of our little Mtn of Paine here in Nrthfld Vt. I used 1 short existing trail, and a section of fast, buff old road along the narrow ridge and added 3 more sections of primitive single track on natural benches and terraced terrain, as well as 2 climbing trails. Maybe 3-4 miles total trail added in addition to routine trail work on the other existing 15 miles of trail in town in that time. This one East Side project total hours for me maybe 250 hours.

As a comparison, for a pro crew to come build 3 miles of flow trail would cost $75,000 up to $150,000 dollars. The finished product would be less sustainable. The disturbance to the earth would be infinitely larger. The experience of riding it would be no more flowy, exciting, or quality, and likely far less interesting and engaging. My hourly would be looking pretty good on this project. I could under bid the pros by 2/3 and still make 100 bucks a hour... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVBxYBT-6A&t=4s

I'm stoked with how it rides. I hate how many trail builders turn through the fall line. Riding long sections of side hill feel more natural to me on a bike, like surfing a wave. I also like to climb if I'm pedaling, and when I start to roll, I want to roll for as long as I can without pedaling, and with as little braking as possible. For me this is largely what Flow is. This clip is the last 2 sections of trail, about half the total run, 800 vert, 2 miles with basically no pedaling.

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For the last 3 years, I've been working on stringing together a long (for Vermont) DH single track off the "Backside" of our little Mtn of Paine here in Nrthfld Vt. I used 1 short existing trail, and a section of fast, buff old road along the narrow ridge and added 3 more sections of primitive single track on natural benches and terraced terrain, as well as 2 climbing trails. Maybe 3-4 miles total trail added in addition to routine trail work on the other existing 15 miles of trail in town in that time. This one East Side project total hours for me maybe 250 hours.

As a comparison, for a pro crew to come build 3 miles of flow trail would cost $75,000 up to $150,000 dollars. The finished product would be less sustainable. The disturbance to the earth would be infinitely larger. The experience of riding it would be no more flowy, exciting, or quality, and likely far less interesting and engaging. My hourly would be looking pretty good on this project. I could under bid the pros by 2/3 and still make 100 bucks a hour... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVBxYBT-6A&t=4s

I'm stoked with how it rides. I hate how many trail builders turn through the fall line. Riding long sections of side hill feel more natural to me on a bike, like surfing a wave. .

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I like it. .my terrain is steep. So.much benchcutting and clearing understory debris compared to your forest. Looks fantastic

Looks fun Dave.

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For the last 3 years, I've been working on stringing together a long (for Vermont) DH single track off the "Backside" of our little Mtn of Paine here in Nrthfld Vt. I used 1 short existing trail, and a section of fast, buff old road along the narrow ridge and added 3 more sections of primitive single track on natural benches and terraced terrain, as well as 2 climbing trails. Maybe 3-4 miles total trail added in addition to routine trail work on the other existing 15 miles of trail in town in that time. This one East Side project total hours for me maybe 250 hours.

As a comparison, for a pro crew to come build 3 miles of flow trail would cost $75,000 up to $150,000 dollars. The finished product would be less sustainable. The disturbance to the earth would be infinitely larger. The experience of riding it would be no more flowy, exciting, or quality, and likely far less interesting and engaging. My hourly would be looking pretty good on this project. I could under bid the pros by 2/3 and still make 100 bucks a hour... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVBxYBT-6A&t=4s

I'm stoked with how it rides. I hate how many trail builders turn through the fall line. Riding long sections of side hill feel more natural to me on a bike, like surfing a wave. I also like to climb if I'm pedaling, and when I start to roll, I want to roll for as long as I can without pedaling, and with as little braking as possible. For me this is largely what Flow is. This clip is the last 2 sections of trail, about half the total run, 800 vert, 2 miles with basically no pedaling.

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That looks like a rad trail. I'm super jealous of your lack of brushy ground level bullshit to hack through.

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Nice Turnpike. Special kind of fun moving large rocks covered in in wet clay.

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Nice Turnpike. Special kind of fun moving large rocks covered in in wet clay.

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Sounds like you've been there before.