Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:52 am
As evidenced by a different thread in a different section, Talia put the call out on FB asking for volunteers to help clean up the MTB trails in order to prepare for the US Cycling Mountain Bike Gravity National Championship on July 21st -- and of course the Brews & Views Festival going on at the same time. For the benefit of a freebie liftie, and since I've been meaning to go up that way one weekend anyway, I said what the heck.
Met up with the crew in the parking lot -- started out with Chris Herndon and about 5 other riders. We ended the work day with about 11 or 12 working (all of them MTB'ers except me). I did manage to get ON the slopes today...but was in a truck instead. We drove up Lower Shawnee to the Crossway, hiked up a good 200+ft and worked our way down...clearing tree roots, smoothing out spots, building up berms, and eventually cutting down 2 small trees. Below Crossway is an area they called the Rock Garden that blew my mind. I cannot fathom what it would be like to ride this stuff!
I missed getting a good picture of it, but they had bike racks on the quad lift! Chris said they could have ordered racks for 2 bikes, but they worked with someone local and made lift racks for 4 bikes. Quicker haul up to the top!
Worked, sweated, played in the dirt, and joked around with some really nice peeps. Capped the afternoon off with some of them at Brick Oven Pizza.
Met up with the crew in the parking lot -- started out with Chris Herndon and about 5 other riders. We ended the work day with about 11 or 12 working (all of them MTB'ers except me). I did manage to get ON the slopes today...but was in a truck instead. We drove up Lower Shawnee to the Crossway, hiked up a good 200+ft and worked our way down...clearing tree roots, smoothing out spots, building up berms, and eventually cutting down 2 small trees. Below Crossway is an area they called the Rock Garden that blew my mind. I cannot fathom what it would be like to ride this stuff!
I missed getting a good picture of it, but they had bike racks on the quad lift! Chris said they could have ordered racks for 2 bikes, but they worked with someone local and made lift racks for 4 bikes. Quicker haul up to the top!
Worked, sweated, played in the dirt, and joked around with some really nice peeps. Capped the afternoon off with some of them at Brick Oven Pizza.
