Its all on today. Jonathan has a Global Volunteer Network day in there today doing blazing, tree/scrub removal and benching. The retaining walls are meant to be underway today as well thanks to a WCC contractor. Perhaps see you there!

cstarnes wrote:Have made steady progress the last 3 days. Are now below the houses on Karepa St and the terrain is easier than the last 100m.

Great stuff Craig. Would love to be able to help out, but am spread a bit thin as it is! Fully appreciative of your efforts though!

Workparty is on today unless really bad things fall out of the sky. Hopefully the 2 retaining walls are finished and we can backfill them.

yep, will be there early. There appears to be breaks in the rain.

The retaining walls were completed and backfilled yesterday. There will be a Revolve ladies track build session on this Sunday.

B a week or two before I get back into it, concussion from face plant into tree, followed by racing anyway in the enduro
has not surprisingly lead to my back not working.

I hope you didn't faceplant into a tree while trackbuilding?

Excellent day for a track build - perhaps see you up there about midday. The Revolve Chicks MTB group had an enthusiastic go at track building over the weekend - made good progress and hope to set up a regular session when daylight saving kicks in.

I've updated the build progress for Transient. Image of the map below...

lovely day for a dig. Be there from 12. Nice big grade reversal to finish

See you there about 12.30

I've managed to get myself stuck up in awkland today, but I'm planning on spending lunchtime digging tomorrow - I assume the tools will be in the usual place?

I rode up the new bit last week - it's got a really nice feel to it. It's going to be a fantastic track when it's all done!

Hi Jono.
As far as I know the tools are just left out at the moment.
Might change though because the track entry is not exactly hidden anymore.

What a lovely day, thanks to andrew and andy, the grade reversal was finished off and should ride well. I then interfered with Andrews plans to fix a drainage problem but such are the perils of middle management.Think it will need a pipe.

Will get the learned Craig to look at it

Yep tools all in plain sight Jono

The drainage didn't look too bad to me. It maybe needs to be a bit deeper (in my experience you need a good 50cm+ of depth in your trench before you start filling with rocks).

I went up yesterday (I took the bike to work and told myself that if it stopped raining I would head up). It stopped raining until I was about half way up willis street.

I spent about 45 minutes digging up the hill, and added about 7m of bench. It's a bit rough at the moment, but I was mostly trying to get a level from the grade reversal up to the next set of natural benchy bits. I suspect that the tree on the inside of the corner at your grade reversal will need to go, but we can address that later.

It got progressively more damp as I dug, and by the time I made it back to the office I was leaving muddy footprints all over the carpark.