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raisingarizona wrote
Some nice photos in this thread!
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raisingarizona
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love that last pic! Nice work!
Thanks man! It’s one of my favorites.
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raisingarizona
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Thanks Harvey!

We wanted to route the trail right under the shade that old growth alligator juniper creates but apparently there’s an archy site right there.
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gorgonzola
Oh no not one of these?!??!!

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ScottyJack






Some drainage clearing and new berm from last year held up fine over winter.

We got our first offical trail work day this Saturday. Building a middle loop trail at the Beaver Brook zone.
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ScottyJack


I’ve always loved getting water to move in the woods!
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raisingarizona
Heck yeah Scottyjack! That rock work behind that berm looks sweet.
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raisingarizona
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Here’s another turn we fixed up a few weeks ago. It’s a tight technical left hander that requires some heavy braking where our rock work is but then there’s a clear sight line into the runout so you can let em run. It’s steep.













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ScottyJack
Awesome bro.

Before working on new trail this sunday im gonna rock cap a drainage trench and then raise thread on trail to eliminate persistent wet spot.  

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raisingarizona
Rad. Get some pics.

In your second photo post it looks like you might have some alignment/drainage issues there.
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ScottyJack
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Yeah that second pic is a trail called double time.  It bisects a wetland and connects the lower zone in the beaver brook trail sytem to the upper technical trails.

A century ago it was farm land and the farmer must of filled this area for a work road.  It’s a problem spot as water drains from wetland through the old tire ruts.  We’ve been hardening the lookers left side with stone and diverting water to upper rut to keep water from undercutting the bank and eroding trail tread.    

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raisingarizona
Oh nice. It sounds like the typical lipstick on a pig or temporary band aid fix that we are all too familiar with. Is there an opportunity to reroute that section so it doesn't run water?

Either way, if you can maintain it then it's probably not too big of a deal.
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This thread is inspiring to me. You guys are doing some great work there
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ScottyJack
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The wetland complex starts at the base of the cliffy area in the pic



so we are constrained as far as options. Have to move from right to left to connect zones.

Long term we’ll probably build about 50 feet of bridging over the wettest section.  But we need to prioritize new trail construction to continue our momenteum towards destignation mtn bike location.  I’ll keep hardening and diverting to push water to upper rut.  I’ll also keep back filling the lower rut with the wet clay type soil I dig out.  It hardens into killer tread material
 

 
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raisingarizona
We had a trail event this past Thursday and it was a major turd polishing for sure. It was on probably the most hated fall line sections in Flagstaff. A realignment is proposed for it but the process for that is in action but will likely take a few more years so we went in to fix it up for now.







It was a big success and we had over 40 people show up for the event. We built 10 or so huge drains and the tread will hopefully hold up for a few years.
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ScottyJack
Nice work bro!
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ScottyJack






Another new trail coming to life in the Wilmington Wild Forest.  
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warp daddy
Looks like you guys put in some effort , nice work !!
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raisingarizona
That dirt looks so nice!

We are so dry over here we’ve been trying to build corners with moon dust.







This is one we worked on the week before that’s the grade reversal before the corner in the above photos.






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Johnnyonthespot
You guys are all ok in my book. Nice work!
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