Scene report from the MAD trail-building extravaganza!

A great turn-out, dry sunny weather, and huge amounts of digging, drilling, cutting, clearing, raking, lopping, chopping, and palette-hauling resulted in brand new sections of single & double track, a mid-forest jump, a bomb-proof berm, and bridge you could drive a tank over!

Thanks to everyone who turned-up and got stuck-in, and I mean STUCK-IN, we got a huge amount done and should be proud of all the work.

Can’t wait to head-out there soon and test out the new trail & features, speaking of which, we’ll need to name the new trails & features, in keeping with the sci-fi naming theme of some of the existing sections, (Star Wars and Area 51).

I was thinking of ‘Aylienation’ for the new singletrack forest trail (also a nod to Mr Ayling for his great help & advice), ‘Roswell‘ for the new doubletrack , ‘Event Horizon’ for the new berm (ie; the gravitational periphery of a black hole, go too near the edge and meet your doom-Aggghhh!!) and ‘The Teleporter’ for the new bridge (ie; it magically transports you from Roswell into Aylienation), any other suggestions welcome, bear in mind also that there are other sections that have yet to be named…


There’s a bit more work to do up there, (not a whole lot though); some of the existing course (near the main car park) needs to be cleaned-up a little, the bomb-hole near the finish has also seen better days, due to the newly widened/surfaced fireroad on the muddy climb from the car park, we’ll likely need to re-plan this climb, we’ll try get this done in early January if possible, and there’s a few palettes left-over that are just crying to be made into jumps!
Thanks again and see ye out on the trails soon.