I heard from an extremely reliable source that the teeter-totter on Ladies Only is going to be torn down and that section of trail will be re-routed.
The District seems to think that the mud holes that Digger spent hours and hours shoveling out are now an enviromentally sensitive area.
Digger told me a while back, he created that whole area by shoveling the holes and terracing them so the water would hold, then overflow from one section to the next, he also added the ferns and skunk weed to add to the visual effect. Right now you can see when the holes start to dry out, they are for sure man made puddles. He also had to re-route the run-off creek so he could create the terraced water flow, the creek used to run 15 feet from where it is now.
The "teeter totter" on Ladies Only is the first known one of it's kind in mountain biking. It should be a heritage site, not something to be torn down by the ignorant people who are trying to impose themselves as the shepherds of our sport.
I also understand that the District will be cutting their new "access road" from the kiosk at Dempsey/Braemar right through Ladies Only and Pipeline. This is not going to be a trail, it is going to be capable of handling emergency vehicles, so it will be at least 3 meters wide and solid gravel, like the access road that already exists on the mountain. They are supposed to be flagging it now, although I didn't see any markers on Ladies Only today.
Maybe somebody else has more details on this, that's all I got for now.
