Last minute trailwork session today at Sals. Someone has pointed out recently that there was a
tad of trail-suck going on at the lower Yellow.This is a rocky section where the rocks are pointy and and weird angles and its getting worse plus it needed a bit of bench cutting and people were routing around it.
I rode Sals in the dark for the first time last night. Anyone ever notice the tiny round reflectors on random trees throughout the woods?
rode Sals for the third time last week.....what a trail! Parked at dodson and rode the yellow,red(new part for me) orange, blue, red, yellow. Really like this trail. The new work on the orange and red where really fun. I love the new rock garden climbs. Will be back again for sure! Thanks for all the hard work put into this trail!:thumbsup:
At the recent VMB meeting we came up with 2 trailwork dates for the rapidly approaching Fall trailwork season at Sals.
Our club trailwork day kickoff is Sunday, October 28th at 10AM.
We'll be there as well on Sunday, November 18th at 10AM.
If you aren't aware members from the local bike clubs have designed and built an approx. 9.5 mile trail system at the Salisbury Walking Purchase park using the IMBA trail building guidelines. Our goal is to build the best sustainable trails around and have fun doing it!
yo bob, do you still have time to do a Sals hike tommorrow?
We've talked a little bit about the need for some easy rides and that Sals doesn't have too much easy stuff.
If we added that trail between Dodson and St lukes there would be some easy stuff near parking that would connect to the yellow for a beginner type ride.....
you could practice on this stuff and then when you wanted more head out to constitution on the red trail
I did a little hike the other day at Sals on the blue.
My swinging idea is to connect the bypass to the boulder trail in another way that what there now. It would connect much closer to the red. So, there would be maybe 100 yards of rocky stuff to go through, not the monster rocky stuff but normal rocky stuff, and then you would hit the main part of the boulder trail (minus the beginning singletracky part of the boulder).
The end result is that you would get to do both the bypass AND the boulder trail if you wish, plus about 100 yards or so of additional stuff to connect them!
where do I access the Salisbury trail (s)
John Ronca and I finished laying out an extension to the Sticker Hell Trail that utilizes the quarry below. There is some nice gravity dips, off camber stuff, several fast humps and yeah, a small climb back up, but the flow should be lots of fun.
The trails exits and re-enters the Sticker Hell probably less than 50 yards apart, so you still have the nice pump track finish before the Nursery Trail.
We will be working on it next week one or several mornings and possibly next weekend.
Yeah, I know we've got you all stressed out because we just did trailwork yesterday at Sals and we're posting again for more trailwork. Jeez, like don't you ever think of anything else?
Well, those beautiful trails don't come from spanking the remote or i don't know, online shopping. They come from hard work from dedicated riders.
Here' your chance to get out into the woods and walk on paths that deer like and make them ridable for us on mountain bikes.