Trail maintenance a go go at Glentress

There's lots of trail maintenance work going on at the mo' at Glentress. We're currently doing ~350m of resurfacing/drainage work on the top section of Spookywood Descent along with a few minor design tweaks.

Being so high up and exposed this part of the trail has suffered from frost heave/trail deformation over the last few winters aswell as drainage problems and trail wear . The work will make the trail more robust and roll/ride/flow better. It's shaping up well and should be reopened by early November.

Small 'rollers' replaced with new tabletop jump, Spookywood Descent

We'll then be doing some smaller resurfacing work further down Spookywood to sort out some braking bumps and puddles into the jumps.

Further into autumn/winter we also have bigger maintenance jobs planned for Pennels Vennel, the Blue Route, Skills Area, Falla Brae and Magic Mushroom, alongside our more regular mtb ranger work clearing puddles from the trails (deberming), minor resurfacing, tree pruning etc.

Our current Trailfairy volunteer project should be completed and open by early November - we're working on a 70m handbuilt re route on the Black option on Falla Brae to replace the old log step entry. Pretty excited about this bit of trail.

Finally, our contractors have been working hard brashing (branch pruning) on the Black Route, doing a very thorough/tidy job. The Boundary Trail and Britney Spears have been completed and they're currently working on the Kipps Climb. It's made a huge difference, really opening the trails up.

cheers,

andy (mtb ranger)

Omega-berms!!

Hey,

Seems to be the season for berms this year! Tally and Cam have just finished refreshing a section in the upper half of The Omega Man, on the red grade trail at Ae. They removed a fairly straight section and decided to put a little twist into it........ quite literally!!!

The end result is a huge difference, loads and loads more flow, better surface, less water problems, all in all a job pretty well done!! And its great fun to ride!!

There are a few other wee jobs going on at Ae at the moment, Nil Desperandum has had a new surface and couple of tweeks to help make it more enjoyable. Rabs Slippy One is also getting some new surfacing as well as the angles of some corners getting a bit of work done to help hold riders onto the ride line.

Small jobs making a huge difference at Ae so why don't you go and give it a bash!!

Cheers