WMBC Trail News

Hey fellas,

Day 2 Update:

Huge progress yesterday with another killer crew. Hawk, Brad, Kevin, Andrew, Lorin, Brandon, Josh, The Plunder crew (Colin, Vaughn, Chris, Clayton and Thad) got after it again. I don’t have the total length of trail built, but a chunk of the day was devoted to clearing a gnarly section. Brad set his camera up for 3 hours on time lapse clearing that section, so that should be really cool to see when it’s sped up.

I’m going up around 1 today.

Cheers,
EB

Pics:

When those dudes catch up to the machine, Clayton, Colin and Chris got after it transplanting ferns and moving some organic in place to help tighten the trail in the first left berm. We’ll keep this going as the machine heads down the hill.
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The 2nd left hand berm turned out SO nice. Most shaping is done here, so we’ll bring in the trail tread and transplant ferns on this asap.
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Thad, Colin and Vaughn shaping.
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Which turned into this hip:
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Lorin moving after the hip:
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That leads to a flattish section, hits a berm and then goes into a two sets of pumpers that can be doubled. I love how tight this all looks after the guys have shaped and transplanted ferns.
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Hawk and Josh shaping the section after the rollers.
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Andrew working his magic where it crosses the old trail. There is a stepdown in this spot now.
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