See the complete Croft trail build diary. After low key build days in December (triangle surfacing) and January (triangle woodwork) we had a big day planned. Twenty tonnes of build materials had been delivered on Thursday morning: half a tonne of gabion (rocks) and 19.5 tonnes of type 1 limestone. Our target was to shift all of this […]
Trail build report: 30 people, 20 tonnes (start, exit, mway1, east side) Read More »
This was a short build session. The entrance to the alley section was resurfaced after being hammered by the recent Prospect Hospice ride. Jon Proudman was cycling past and stopped to help. The alley was surfaced in Oct 2010, exit mods on 5th Dec 2010 surfaced Jan 2011 and the final link in Dec 2011. A fence was built on Piper’s hill next
Trail build report…alley surfacing and some fence work Read More »
We had two targets for the weekend: surface the climb on Piper’s hill plus make a start on the last remaining mud section of the trail: the east side of the pitch. Piper’s hill had been dug out in April 2011 and survived really well as mud (see the build report from April). The onset
Build report: Sat 26th Nov 2011 Surfacing Piper’s hill climb Read More »
Saturday 9th April 2011 The plan for the weekend was to dig out a new climb and descent on Piper’s hill. This was the result of three years of discussion and around 15 drawings concerning what to do with the hill. The plan was quite simple – a diagonal climb up the hill roughly parallel
Build report: Sat 9th & Sun 10th April 2011 Read More »
There was still snow and ice on the ground when we started at 9:30am. It did feel a bit warmer though and it wasn’t raining. Chris dropped the power barrow off and I (Tom) was on my own for a few hours. I decided to move some rubble on the top of Piper’s hill but
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