Trail work updates, Sept 5-9, 2016

[heading]Trail work updates, Sept 5-9, 2016[/heading]

Alpine Sproatt Trail

The Squirrel crew is done. After some appropriate testing and close inspection: berm magnification, drain enhancement, bonus armouring, pedal-catcher smashing, danger tree removing and further testing, we are happy to call it "DONE!".Since the second volunteer day, back in June 2014, a last piece of flagging had been sitting in a lower section taunting us. The trail was craving rounder turns... "Those new berms were sick!" ~ Jesse MelamedAll the flagging is gone now! It wasn't all painless though, Raph got stung 3 days in a row. We encountered more wasp nests than we could count! So beware "wasp alley" which runs from the Flank trail to roughly 1350 metres.  We later escaped to the relative safety of Rockwork Orange to refresh some of the spicier moves. It's currently rated as a "black diamond"... what do you think about that?[huge_it_gallery id="12"]

Trail Maintenance in Whistler Valley

Nothing to report this week.