Trail building at Hartland

Chris Oman, the Simbs trail guru, making sure everything is the way he want's it

Rider's Cycles sponsored the trail maintenence at Hartland last Sunday. So me, Andrew and Mitch made our way out there with a bag of goodies for the volenteers that showed up for the day. Most of the crew went out to the new trail that is being built in the park and will be a connector from Southridge to Fun trail. This new trail is sn exciting addition to the trail system and will be a nice two way trail. It'll be an interesting and technical climb, and a nice twisty downhill with berms, rock features and even a beautiful natural wall-ride. The rest of the crew went up to the super-d race course and worked on improving the flow on Who's your daddy and Niteshift. The super-d will be this weekend on Sunday the 24th. More info here.
Mitch went up with the super-d crew, but me and Andrew worked on the new trail. It's always good to get out for the trail maintenence, not only because of the awesome soup, sandwiches and swag that you'll get for showing up but also for the sense of accomplishment.
After doing the draw for our Rider's swag we got on our bikes and did a quick superd run to see the work that had been done and to practice for the upcoming race. I have to say that I'm getting pretty excited about the race and I hope we'll see lots of people out there on Sunday. It's free for SIMBS members and the race fee for non-members is only $20 and includes a years membership to SIMBS. So it's about as cheap as it gets and will benefit a mtb society that is making it possible for us to ride those trails in the first place.

Andrew capping the rockwork that we were working on for the day.