Monday, February 8, 2010
Lost Giants Love
6:38 PM | 
Posted by
Marko
Working on the Lost Giants is always a labor or love for me. It was the first trail I ever built on Galbraith almost 20 years ago now.... so it holds a special spot on my trail roster. But truth be told I've learned a lot about building trail in the past 20 years and like so many things so much of success comes down to location, location, location!
The LG is in a great area of the mountain-full of big trees, lots of moss and also a fair share of wet areas. If I were to do it all over again I'm not sure we would have punched a trail through where it is located now. Over the years it has become a classic and it's got some of the best "feel" of a big forest around. Now that the Mole Trap connects the LG and Rock & Roll, the LG is seeing a lot more traffic in years past. As a result the maintenance schedule had to be accelerated. So we keep working on it-draining where we can and bridging where we need to to make it flow sweet again.
This weekend we put in some serious work on the very south end of the trail-we added almost 40 feet of new bridging. It was great to use the available timber that was down and built a split log bridge. It's a bit narrower than some of the others-but we like that, as it is adding a bit of a challenge to that section.
The sections south of the bridging got the full on rake over (literally) and it is manicured and riding sweet. Some creative work at the exit makes for a cool punch out to the pipeline road instead of dropping into the big mud puddle that had appeared over the past year.
Thanks to the 12 folks that showed up and Whitney of WWU Cycling Team for motivation a few extra volunteers.
The LG is in a great area of the mountain-full of big trees, lots of moss and also a fair share of wet areas. If I were to do it all over again I'm not sure we would have punched a trail through where it is located now. Over the years it has become a classic and it's got some of the best "feel" of a big forest around. Now that the Mole Trap connects the LG and Rock & Roll, the LG is seeing a lot more traffic in years past. As a result the maintenance schedule had to be accelerated. So we keep working on it-draining where we can and bridging where we need to to make it flow sweet again.
This weekend we put in some serious work on the very south end of the trail-we added almost 40 feet of new bridging. It was great to use the available timber that was down and built a split log bridge. It's a bit narrower than some of the others-but we like that, as it is adding a bit of a challenge to that section.
The sections south of the bridging got the full on rake over (literally) and it is manicured and riding sweet. Some creative work at the exit makes for a cool punch out to the pipeline road instead of dropping into the big mud puddle that had appeared over the past year.
Thanks to the 12 folks that showed up and Whitney of WWU Cycling Team for motivation a few extra volunteers.
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