gopherhockey
03-07-2006, 10:38 PM
Its never too soon to start talking about trail building... so I thought I'd get things rolling by spilling a bit of information on what we are planning in 2006.
As most of you know, 2005 was a rather slow year at Leb... mostly maintenance and a few random projects. Nothing compared to 2003-04 where we did a few major trail projects.
2006 will be a lot more fun than last year. Why you ask?
We just got done meeting with Dakota County and basically have approval for 3 smaller re-routes!
One is where you come out of the intermediate trail and ride backwards down the ski trail then start the climb up what we call the bypass. We plan to ride straight accross the ski trail and surf the bowl back around to about where the trail starts now. This eliminates shared trail and makes for better winter riding without getting in the way of the skiiers.
A second project is near the X loop rock garden. It will be a 2 year project that will bring some cool new rock riding and a couple of rock switchbacks into the area. We have not done this yet but feel we have the rocks to pull it off... (so to speak.. ) This will be a nice added challenge when completed.
The third is a longer re-route. Its the area we now call the Intermediate Bypass. This is that trail you take if you don't ride the X loop out... basically a straight shot down a ski trail, a blind left turn, the you meet up with the Dream Trail. What we plan to do is re-route this section and surf around a few areas meeting back up near where the X loop comes out... this trail will be really nice and may tempt a person to take this route vs. riding the X loop over again when you are ready to head out... or make riding Intermediate loops even more fun.
We hope to start these projects right away in the spring before other major projects start up in the area. Watch for trailwork to begin as soon as the ground thaws!
And of course we'll be doing maintenance on the trails and perhaps another small obstacle or two... we have to fix the easy option where the camelback is in the XX loop and address a few other small areas.
There will be more than enough work to go around this year, but we hope that those of you who have been riding Lebanon will come out and help us out... be it to do your part, increase that feeling of ownership in the trails, meet really cool dirt bosses, or even just for the post-work refreshments.
Stay tuned... Bob, Ted and myself will be leading up the charge.. and we'll see the real trail building experts out there with Bob and Dingo again as well.
As most of you know, 2005 was a rather slow year at Leb... mostly maintenance and a few random projects. Nothing compared to 2003-04 where we did a few major trail projects.
2006 will be a lot more fun than last year. Why you ask?
We just got done meeting with Dakota County and basically have approval for 3 smaller re-routes!
One is where you come out of the intermediate trail and ride backwards down the ski trail then start the climb up what we call the bypass. We plan to ride straight accross the ski trail and surf the bowl back around to about where the trail starts now. This eliminates shared trail and makes for better winter riding without getting in the way of the skiiers.
A second project is near the X loop rock garden. It will be a 2 year project that will bring some cool new rock riding and a couple of rock switchbacks into the area. We have not done this yet but feel we have the rocks to pull it off... (so to speak.. ) This will be a nice added challenge when completed.
The third is a longer re-route. Its the area we now call the Intermediate Bypass. This is that trail you take if you don't ride the X loop out... basically a straight shot down a ski trail, a blind left turn, the you meet up with the Dream Trail. What we plan to do is re-route this section and surf around a few areas meeting back up near where the X loop comes out... this trail will be really nice and may tempt a person to take this route vs. riding the X loop over again when you are ready to head out... or make riding Intermediate loops even more fun.
We hope to start these projects right away in the spring before other major projects start up in the area. Watch for trailwork to begin as soon as the ground thaws!
And of course we'll be doing maintenance on the trails and perhaps another small obstacle or two... we have to fix the easy option where the camelback is in the XX loop and address a few other small areas.
There will be more than enough work to go around this year, but we hope that those of you who have been riding Lebanon will come out and help us out... be it to do your part, increase that feeling of ownership in the trails, meet really cool dirt bosses, or even just for the post-work refreshments.
Stay tuned... Bob, Ted and myself will be leading up the charge.. and we'll see the real trail building experts out there with Bob and Dingo again as well.