Fromme Mtn, DNV trail work updates

It's a high traffic area that was perhaps abit lumpy for many people. I have seen lots of fully armoured riders walking through those rocks and it was prone to multiple lines. This will confine trail users to a single pathway. I can't say the old lumpy line was bad for me. I actually liked the challenge of riding it fast. In the wet it was fun.

Hey if it's too easy on your motorless motocross bike get a xc race hardtail and up the anti. That makes the easiest lines more challenging. It is about the challenge isn't it?

Pink Starfish is temporarily closed for maintenance. I do not know when it will re-open or how long the maintenance of the trail will take.

Jerry Rig is also temporarily closed pending a trail re-assessment by the DNV and the possibility of the trail being adopted. The upper portion of the trail with all the skinnies at the beginning are rotted out and unsafe for riding, these will be decommissioned to prevent usage of the trail pending the assessment/maintenance of the trail.

Is anyone actively working on Pink Starfish? I've seen some fairly recent looking work but also some of the other woodwork is pretty well rotten through. Some nice lines on there and it would be a shame to lose it. Sadly, I have neither the time nor the skills to maintain the trail though I'd be happy to help out on a trail day!! ;)

Thanks for the quote 6061. I had missed that earlier in the thread. Phew.

I'm really trying to like the DNV's work but I can't help but feel that we're gonna have some areas to 'work on' this fall when the temporary trail crew has moved on

oh well, I guess there's the other 99.9% of the mountain that they won't have time to work on

People wine and moan that the DNV does nothing…then they finally do some work that ever so slightly dumbs down a section and it's a bitch fest? Someone must have pictures showing that those sections used to be nice smooth trail bed before.

Some continuity would be nice. Building on the work done previously by volunteers and paid grants through the NSMBA.

There are plenty of areas that require work rather then redoing what was already done.

Is anyone actively working on Pink Starfish? I've seen some fairly recent looking work but also some of the other woodwork is pretty well rotten through. Some nice lines on there and it would be a shame to lose it. Sadly, I have neither the time nor the skills to maintain the trail though I'd be happy to help out on a trail day!! ;)

Yes.

Devastation turned to eleation at the top of SOD today. Huge props to DNV parks in combining old and new. A true forward thinking snapshot of the big picture.

Ok here are some more photos.

Stairs of despair finished work

Rode this tonight and gotta say it's very nice work AND the old line is still there for those nostalgic folks to ride!

The Old line was indeed rebuilt. It's a bit different and is more of a straight line and is kinda split in 2 portions, but it should do the trick for a while.

http://nsmba.ca/content/2010-07_fromme-update

Please click above link to get up to speed with the work being done by the DNV with open consultation from the NSMBA.

Thank you to the DNV for their efforts!

So I guess we'll be shutting down this thread then?

People wine and moan that the DNV does nothing…then they finally do some work that ever so slightly dumbs down a section and it's a bitch fest? Someone must have pictures showing that those sections used to be nice smooth trail bed before.

I'm sure Lord Baden Powell's vision was of a boardwalk through the mountains.

While I'm on it - this is 800K of my tax dollars being spent on this project, correct?

I don't see why they (oh hang on, wait, I mean we, since it's my money) didn't give digger a 100K/yr job for the next 8 years with specific tasks/year built in. Hell, I bet a 50K/yr salary over the next 16 years would have been accepted.

Sorry that I'm not cheering over this, seeing as I'm paying for it.

But again…. nice boardwalk.

I don't get depressed when I'm not axle deep in mud.

Old Buck used to be like that before DNV turned it into an easy climb. It took 110% keep riding. Now it just takes lungs.

I guess one thing "we" (and I include myself in the "we") keep forgetting is that not all the trails are "ours" and that the money came from the Feds to improve the trails for everyone, bikers, hikers, joggers and dog walkers etc.