Max and Anson decided to take advantage of the sunny spring weather on Saturday to do a little trail maintenance. A favorite trail of ours had a sketchy log rollover followed with a hard turn that we decided to fix up a bit. We grabbed a rock bar, shovel, rake, and a hand saw and biked and hiked out to do some work.
As we made our way up the trail, we found what some people call a "widowmaker", a rotten tree about ready to fall across the trail. After some serious huffing and puffing we got the tree down so it couldn't hurt anyone. Instead of moving it off trail, Anson rocked around it to make a little rollover feature.
Our main project was to work on the off-camber rollover. Once we got up to it, we realized it'd be a lot of effort to correct all its faults, but we shored up some of the logs and piled a little bank up in hopes of improving the flow a bit. Maybe save it for another time?
Our final improvement involved an unnecessary turn around two large trees, which causes you to loose all your speed. So we cleared the brush and entrance between the trees and rerouted the trail a bit. Hopefully we improved the flow a bit better, only time will tell if it gets ridden in.
Though we did a bit of work we made sure not to cut down any living trees and use natural objects for our features. No pictures, but we'll try to get some photos of the trail later in the season.
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