Anyone up for a bit of Pinnacle maintenance work thursday for a few hours?

A bit of leaf blowing and weedwacking Outback and possibly looking to reconnect back to skunk hollow for the Novice and Sport riders.

Maybe we can buy a sleeve of shingles for Ryan's bridge, too.

PJ

Yah deffinitely, I'll talk to anthony and ethan tomorrow, hopefully we'll all ride tomorrow to. Thats if ant gets his bike back from the shop tomorrow. Also I would suggest looking at some bithithane, you can get a role with a sandy grip side and sticky back, also I think its cheaper than shingle, but thats just a suggestion. You could pound some nails into it too.

-Jesse

I'm up for some trail work. I hope to join the ride tomorrow, got to get my bike first thou. I've actually been wondering how a little gravel stomped in and then brushed off the wood would work?

Ryan

Remember, Brian's switchback has a dead tree across the trail which also pulled some small branches down with it.

Randy and I will running up there today (Weds) and we'll do some clearing along the way.

What time on Thursday.

I have enough wire for the 2 largest bridges, and 4 boxes of wire nails.

And yeh, where and what time?

Ryan

I won't be able to make it, but I have 11 shingles that can be used. Someone needs to stop by and pick them up.

-- Ken
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

1 O'clock we can meet at the High School.

Our most pressing trail work will be cleaning outback and the climb up Coit, as well as trying to connect back to skunk hollow.


If you have a weekwacker, that would be helpful. If not clippers and a rake.


PJ

I dropped off the shingles as PJ's house yesterday.

-- Ken
 
"If you brake, you don't win." Racer Mario Cipollini

Ok PJ, sounds like a plan.

I would add the completion of meshing the bridges is a high priority as well. I have enough for the South Boundary and Forest trail long bridges and maybe enough to do one of the bridges on ledge trail, however there is a second bridge on Ledge and one on Ridge that will need to be done to complete all the smooth bridges in the town forest.

Ryan

We can split up into 2 groups. All I need is 2 guys and 2 weekwackers and I can follow up with blowing the trail.

Jesse, How many guys you got coming?


Ryan, Do you want the shingles? and what tools/hardware do you need? I can pick it up today.


PJ

I have a hammer for myself and the fore mentioned wire, and enough wire nails for the wire I have, but I have no roofing nails for shingles (i.e. short big flat head nails).

I'm ok hitting the bridges myself or with one other, they will need a hammer for themselves, thou.

Ryan

If people show up late and want to help me I will be finishing up the South Boundary Bridge first and then Working on the Forest trail bridge next and after that probably heading for Ledge trail bridges.

Ryan

Must of missed you at the high school. Outback and Climb to Coit are done as well as Brake Burner and Bear Trap.

I had all the help...... Jesse, Ethan and DJ....thanks.

PJ

Yeh I got there a few minutes late, no biggy. I just got home 6:00pm, it took me all that time to finish the 2 big bridges, haul the remaining wire up to Ledge, and I messed around with the end of ledge a bit where it dumps into Upper Loop. I ran out of water and steam about the time I finished the second bridge. The other ones will have to be another day.

Ryan

Does anyone have anymore chicken wire? I'm going to need 2 more 25 ft x 2 ft rolls to finish all the smooth board bridges?

I also just realized the boardwalk is smooth to, but I don't think that needs anything anyways, even if you do ride it, you never ride if fast.

Ryan

Board walk may be coming down this summer so there will be some wood for other purposes

Well if it's not used I could see taking it down, but it wouldn't take a lot to straighten it up, and fix some hand railings, now keep people from throwing stuff in the water, that is a different story.

The new line is opened up on Brake Burner. You can still do the 90 degree left turn, but you can also roll over the left edge for a smoother transition. If we X the heck out of that line and inform all the sport and novice riders of the danger, encourage them to walk down it, put a marshal up there with first aid kit, and bring in some hay bails, I see no other reason to not send everyone up the Coit Climb. Easier on markings and they would get that full climb, which is in great shape and not real technically demanding (albeit a few spots), just tough.



Trail work left: Open up the old end of Noname, Connect roots to South Boundary (mostly already done). Spruce up the Plummet. Tidy up here and there with the blower, and ride, ride, ride.


PJ

I don't have any issues with everyone going up the normal route and coming down Brake Burner, I just thought it would be cruel to send Novice, heck anyone, up Brake Burner. You guys race, but it seems to me if it can't be ridden by ANYONE, it really doesn't belong in a race. It might be a little dicey for novice, but I don't have any alternatives that don't require a lot of work.

Ryan

Rockboy said "It might be a little dicey for novice"



It's dicey for everyone and I don't think a novice will ride it or like it. They will be dead tired after the 2 mile climb and just get in everyones way while maybe hurting themselves trying to come down. Then if they make it they may not come back next year.
Some sections of Brake Burner are easier and safer to ride than walk but they'll try and walk not realizing it. If you really think you need to put someone there to watch for safety, don't send them that way.

But this is just my opinion.

That being said I think everyone would enjoy coming down the long Coit climb through Outback but I have no idea how they would get back to the world. Unless you sent them up Summer St. to Fern then No Name. I think the off bike experience coming up Brake Burner would be not much more than 100-200 feet and everyone would be doing it.

Dan might be right PJ.

It would take a group effort but a reasonably safe way down could appear before race day if necissary, I think.

Ryan

we can certainly make it impossible to ride forcing people to walk down, it is only a couiple hundred yards. However if you have a safer suggestion that will include the climb, I am all ears.

Am I hearing that you believe sport riders may be able to handle it?


If we send the novice and/maybe sports around we will need another trail day to get them through the logging area and back to skunk hollow. That won't be an issue, but they won't get the big climb. We would also need Ryan to man the gate sending each rider whichever way.

Thanks for the feedback.

PJ

Dan and I will be up there today to check it out.

I don't think most sport riders will like it either but I think they are experienced enough to expect the unexpected and not get hurt coming down it. Depending on whether an alternate route is possible and how easy it is, we can decide after who we will send down it.

Having walked that side of the mountain quite a bit, I don't think it is likely to be able to easily make a trail that is ridable in the up direction, but it might be entirely possible to make a less dangerous decent. I spent like a week scouting that whole side of the moutain for an up route, before I gave up and just cut Brake Burner.

Ryan