They are punching a new road through on what used to be the power line trail above the main intersection of Gaglardi and Burnaby Mountain Parkway. Not sure what its purpose is but the main Naheeno trail that accesses Mels is still good to go. Right now, due to construction, the power line climb requires some hike a bike.
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it's been that way for a few weeks. not a problem in the eves or weekends getting through. i cant recall how long it's supposed to be for
I saw them installing new water (or sewer lines) along the power lines today. Not sure if it is going to be a road though? Anyway, that new trail that was cut from the water tower is several feet wide….I'm wondering if it's going to be a crushed gravel path….
From the west end of the park there is a fully smoothed two lane wide dirt road. I dropped in to the trail to access Mels and was recovering from OTBing off the old doubletrack into the road so didn't pay much more attention as to how far it went, but that's pretty close to the works yard so I'm assuming the swath goes the whole way. Maybe an extension of the parking lot?
Anyway, that new trail that was cut from the water tower is several feet wide….I'm wondering if it's going to be a crushed gravel path….
given the style of work that burnaby is doing, i'd say it's more than likely
given the style of work that burnaby is doing, i'd say it's more than likely
Well an optimist would say it still beats riding the road…which it does. That being said I saw a pair of Bobcats walking up Jim's Jungle yesterday. I've seen several Lynx over the years (not at SFU of course), but this is the first time I've ever seen a bobcat, two of them no less!
This is a new second water supply line up to Burnaby Mtn and a new pump station down by the turnoff to Horizon's restaurant (Centennial Drive). The clearance needed to do the work is as nominal as possible in order to move equipment and store materials as the crews work both up and down the line. Work should be done in 6 months, depending on weather. This will give students and residents an emergency back-up water supply to the mountain, as it's one of the only areas in Burnaby that does not yet have a redundant water supply.
This week you'll start seeing the completion of stream crossings and culverts, which have all been reviewed and approved by DFO with considerable compensation and improvements to what was previously a very scarred old school Hydro corridor. Streams will either be fully bridged/culverted with full habitat enhancement or will be simple non-permanent open streams fully revegetated and improved. All eroding banks from the past will be regraded. All stream courses will have considerable hand planting and bank stabilisation with native materials. The rest of the corridor will be graded, re-topsoiled with native material and seeded with a full restoration mix. It should theoretically have far less invasives the previous.
The old 'access' road used to get to the line that wanders across the right of way will be restored. It will be a mix of native compacted backfill and trail crush, connecting all the way from Gaglardi up to Naheno and the parking lots. So it will be a nice new option for hikers, and bikers accessing Gaglardi and the Parkway without having to ride the road. I imagine it will not be highly used by Hydro, as they clear only every 5 years or so, so with our west coast vegetation, this will be more a compacted wide singletrack over time and should provide a reasonably nice climbing experience versus the non-accessible crap-show that is there now.
Enjoy. I hope.
Edit to add: yes, you can still cross… they just happen to be working directly at the trail crossing these last couple of days. They may ask you to wait if using machinery, until it's clear, but certainly after hours and weekends, trail users can happily cross. Just respect the bounds of safety for you and the workers.
I say pave the whole damn mountain so we can all ride these:
Wrong. Always.
Still working, came down Naheno this morning, and right at the old road there was big scoop a scooping, so no getting across today[HTML_REMOVED]#8212;having said that, great morning for a ride, sun even popped out, just a little water to hold the dust down, and a comfortable 15C (I was overdressed in my long sleeve shirt).
Forecast for rain this evening….
P.S. Looks like there is an underground stream right where Mels and Gear Jammer meet (just under the tree), or maybe it's those Artesians again. Looks like someone has tried to add some riprap to shore up and redirect the flow, but it will need some trail work or it will erode fairly quickly from the looks of it. Not sure if the [email protected] is still working, but I'll pop them a line, I forget the Burnaby contact).
Not sure if the [email protected] is still working, but I'll pop them a line, I forget the Burnaby contact).
I'll try that one too. I rode the lower trails tonight and there's a big tree down on Dead Moped. The only way to get across is to ride over that four-ish-foot tall bridge.
Also a new little ladder in on North Road Trail so someone is doing work out there.
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And there is a serious amount of shortcuts now on Upper/Lower Snake. It's getting pretty rediculous. I'm curious to the person doing some quite buff building somewhere on the mountain (not saying where), could treat the right hander after the bridge on upper Snake with a little of his work. A little berm/profiled corner would bring a lot of kids back from cutting that corner, and making a loose gravelly mess of that whole section….
I'm up for helping out as well, I live on the NW side of the mountain, I'm there riding/trail running a fair amount up there.
The website hasn't been updated in a cuple years? Who does the work up there, just the city?
upper snake has been closed for about 2 years now, i think you mean uppercut.
yes the braids are getting silly. it is likely that they will be taken care of this winter. hard to do anything in the dry.
The braids on Lower Snake and Upper Cut seem counter productive, why shorten your ride, why take out the fun bits and make a straight line, you can ride down the road for that.
Okay the braid on the A-frame on Upper Cut I suspect is a ride around, the one at the "U" turn is because it is a technical (some one has done the same on Lower North Road too, at the "U" there), and the technical "S" turn on Lower Snake, with the ripped out sapling that is now a straight rollover-probably someone on a big bike wanting to go too fast on a shared trail. The others mostly seem like hiker short cuts and not something people would be riding (at least I hope not).
Big fallen tree is off the trail tonight! That was fast!
Not liking the braids on Upper Cut either. I'd be willing to help out with that as well.
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:belgium: :canada:
For some reason I can't see the full text. Oh well… it's under construction. First phase done end of Septemberish. Dual direction, but designed to climb. Lots of grade reversals and tighter turns to slow folks down… in theory.
Can anyone describe route of above trail using landmarks on map below?
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