Lovely mild weather, 22 people, and a great atmosphere.
Track building happiness ! I think the gang benched about 35m of this trail, and cleared most of the random vegetation nearly all of the way to the second switchback !!
I am always amazed to see the progress: some people saw stuff up, others rip out roots, still others attack with grubbers to make a flat bench, and more people build lovely flowy trail on the new foundations. Wow.
This track will get dark quite early, (much like SWIGG & Starfish), due to the canopy and the side of the hill being in shadow. But the first switchback will be in the light (once that barberry goes) and the second is also out in the open, so they will be glowing strangely.
This lowest section of the North Face project has a very different setting to the others, and its personality is becoming obvious already. It is going to be a ripper :D
Great stuff and thank you to the men, women and children who helped out this evening. As always, you have made an important difference!
Photos:
Before this evening..
At 7:15, dinner time...
And going for a walk into the trail just after Pizza Time:
and
and..
and...theres more
and then
Anyway it eventually started to get dark, and the sensible people wandered off...
( except where there was one more Barberry to remove..)
And then Martin sent us all scattering by steaming down the trail into the gloom, becoming the first person to ride it :)
So here is a map showing the new lower track in RED, the part that was pretty much done last night is the yellow part at the beginning, and the yellow dots show the part that is being worked on:
Anyhow we will be meeting again at the same spot next Tuesday from 5, and if you want to perfect the existing North Face trail from the very top, drop by and say hello on Sunday this coming weekend from 10am.
The main North Face trail is of course ridable now. Except where we might be working !
See you on the side of a hill..
Cheers,
Rob