A Finished Expresso

Digger explaining the birds and bees of trail design to2014 Expresso TAP builder Trevor Hansen. Digger spends every trail day going up and down the trail explaining what needs to be done, why it has to be done and is always entertaining and motivating.

Digger always goes in before trail days and flags the area that needs work.

So many volunteers have said how much they love digging and how much they appreciate getting dirty and working muscles differently than they are used to. No computer screens and keyboard carpal tunnel out here; just sore backs, shoulders, arms and legs.

So many rocks were moved to new homes to make way for the new baby.

Thousands of buckets of gold were mined from the forest and laid on the trail.

Couples got dirty and bonded.

Pro riders including Thomas Vanderham lent a hand.

Fathers and daughters came out.

Fathers and sons put the cats in the cradle.

Our youngest worker showed up a few times with his own mini shovel and did a lot of work for a young’un.

Prepping the final groundwork for the final shovel for the final day.

The final shovels for the end of the Expresso line.

Hundreds of volunteers learned The Digger Dance: the technique for tamping gold down on the trail bed. It is so simple but so many needed to be reminded how. Here the largest Digger Dance record was set.

Mr. Chambre has many years of union gardening know-how. Here he works the wheel-barrow while relaxing after a long day of pop culture quips and non sequiturs in the woods.

One of the best sponsors a trail day could ask for, Shaftebury beer provided post work refreshments to accompany the Toyota Dealers of BC bbqs.

So much swag went out over the past three years compliments of Rockshox and the Nsmb.com store.

Following the bbq many traded in their shovels for bikes and rode their work. Here brew-sampler extraordinaire and bright colour embracer, Pete Roggeman, rides it smooth.

The end.