Ditch Loop Trail Work

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The view of the new trail from the top of Ditch DH.

 

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With longer daylight hours here, who wants to come out for some no dig session laps? Best way for me to figure out what is working or not is to see people hit it.

 

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Picked up this big boy trimmer brush cutter as my Homelite died.
Great news, it has a big 18" cutting circle and will probably run .155 twine. The bad news, it is to big and heavy to ride in so I still need to hike it in.

 

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Dannnng dude! got the big boy

 

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Dannnng dude! got the big boy

PW50 powered weed whip. haha

 

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Oh, she eats...
Did a bunch with both the 10" brush cutter Chinese Star thing and with 0.155 line crammed in the head. The 0.155 will not bump feed, but it lasts such a long time through grass and mustard it isn't even funny. I have to pause to let it cool down way more than I have to feed more line. Only had a few line breaks using line as a brush cutter.
The metal brush cutter is awesome for taking the front off the bushes on the edge of the trail, but is less effective on grass / mustard due to the smaller cutting circle. I hit dirt and rocks way less than I thought I was going to.

 

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Ditch climb is opened to the top between Bob and myself. Bob also opened up the section that I built the bypass / switch backs around. The ruts I had issue with somewhat have filled in. Bob also started down Ditch DH brush cutting but I don't know how far he got. I will head up today and probably finish Ditch DH and get into Riddler's Revenge.

 

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about time to get back out there

 

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about time to get back out there

Needs to drop both temps and water to get out there for real work. I also need to have my leg close up.

 

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Getting back at it now that we got moisture. We added a short new up line mid trail. You can now pedal current bottom to top. We put in a small rock garden (The KMET Rockers), built the step down to over jump the A line, got half the A line bench cut for the newest section. We should have it bench cut back to where the hard line will step up over it.

So close to being down to where I can start mapping out the last section to the bottom. I have a few ideas I need to figure out how to make happen in that area once I get there.

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

hell yea dude!

 

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hell yea dude!

When am I going to get you out there for a few laps? I don't think you have seen any of this one, or have you?

 

[badlinesgoodtimes]

When am I going to get you out there for a few laps? I don't think you have seen any of this one, or have you?

I haven't seen any of that last time I was up there is when we did the group ride work day up there last year.

 

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Current view of the trail from the top. Where it will be going from what it shown is not able to be seen from here.
Adding a 3rd short option line in the section I am building now. Not as extensive as the other two options which turn it into a completely different trail experience.
#minibikepark.