WMBC Trail News

We had a killer turnout this Saturday for our last official trailday of the season. Even with it being one of the only sunny days in recent weeks (hello summer, where art thou?), over 50 people took the day off the bike to help us get Atomic Dog dialed for the summer. There were a lot of the usuals on hand, but there was also a lot of new faces that were stoked to give back. Also, the trend of having more ladies and young riders joining us continued which is very cool.



Many thanks to Transition Bikes for inspiring such a big turnout….Kevin, Kyle and Cameron were out digging until the very end and those guys provided pizza and bevies for lunch.



We knocked off the following items:

• Drainage – The 4 major drainage issues were tackled and the vast majority of the trail is outsloped with big, proper drains now. We’ll revisit these in the fall to clear them out, but the foundation is in place now and should help the trail dry quickly. Hawk, Spence and Lorin were up top making sure everything was all done properly.

• Several berms got reshaped with a bunch of dirt added.

• The new exit got down to gold and is totally open with a couple of fun new features. Odin and Matt K. were leading that zone with a big posse.

• The rock wallride isn’t done yet, so we’ll be working on that over the next couple weeks. The step up that is between the two stepdowns got a proper tranny with Brandon and Kevin M. taking the lead on that zone.

• Exit to Unemployment Line – We had 2 trucks gathering rock and gravel and 10 folks tackled this project in the AM with Andrew’s lead. The amount of rock and gravel in there now, it should hold up fine ‘til Fall and we’ll reassess how it’s working then. If it becomes a problem again, we might have to build a small ladder into the berm. Still TBD.



Some photos below:


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