Quimper Trails

Tucker, Keegan and I went out to PA this weekend and did a few hours trailwork with the Olympic Dirt Society. We built some new trail, fixed a few broken rungs on Limbo and followed it all up with a few runs on some of the best downhill trails in the Northwest.

Stuart,Gary and I spent three days in Hood River Ore.

On day one we started on top of Binns Hill,then dropped into Post Canyon. More than ten miles and not too much uphill. 

Day two was at Fifteen mile trail near Mount Hood. Eight miles of fast swooping downhill,then a long pedal back up to the car,but it was worth it.

Day three was spent on the Sync Line trail. Fun single track with lots of rock and great views of the Columbia river.

A big thanks to Pat for being our tour guide.

What a blast,that was the most fun I’ve had on a bike in a long time.

We had great weather for practice on Friday,but the rain came down for the race on Sunday.

Stu and I had a good race,we both ended up on the podium.

Galbraith   was lots of fun.

Most of the climbing was on logging roads,then we had fun bombing down the trails. We rode about 14 miles total.

We had a great turnout of 11 riders on a nice sunny day.

We are planning a ride at Galbraith Mtn. near Bellingham on Sunday 8/03/08.

For more info send me an e-mail at quimpertrails@hotmail.com or give me

a call at 360-301-9727.

See you there.

Jim

The blog log mystery gnomes have finished the blog log. It is nice and wide,but still very freaky to ride. Good job guys.

Yesterdays meeting with Wayne from DNR went well. We walked a mile or so of proposed trail that will descend though the clearcut (marked in red). Wayne said he has to run it by his boss, but didn’t for see any problems.

Meanwhile we are working towards talking to ORM about connecting to Gibbs Lake. We have a letter from the County saying that they are happy with us connecting into the park.

It’s been a slow Spring for trail building. We’re still in the process of trying to meet with the various land owners to finalize the route and sign a maintenance agreement. Moving forward with the Connector trail has slowed due to a cedar pole harvest happening next year on the DNR land. This means we will probably focus on building trail in the clearcut until they are finished with that.

In the meantime we have been tidying up the last section towards the view point and have flagged a trail that will return to the bottom through the clearcut. We’re scheduled to meet with Wayne from DNR next week to discuss that, and then hopefully things will get moving again.

Stu

I managed to get out twice this weekend to flag and map the final section of the Connector Trail, that is on ORM land. Now this section, is mapped, we are ready to sit at the table with DNR and ORM, to sign all the paperwork. Hopefully it won’t take too long. I want to start building.

This is an exciting section that starts in the County Park. It has a strong climb thru older forest up onto a ridge. It looks like there is some rock up here to use and there should be a Cascade view on a clear day. After a small section of old, overgrown logging road it dives back into dark young trees. Think easy building. There is one main wetland crossing with a large old log that spans the whole way. Then back into the young forest with a couple of nice switch-backs. Another small section of logging road, before the final climb to the top. I imagine it’s about a 500 foot climb in a mile, but I’m not certain. The highest point is 800 ft. Then the long decent towards Anderson Lake begins. Should be fairly easy building for a while as it’s mostly younger forest, with no under growth.

This weekend the boys got out for some much needed bridge maintenance. A couple of our bridges at Andersons are made from old pallets and were considered a temporary measure three years ago when they were put in. Needless to say some of the boards are starting to break. For now we patched the holes with some old treated 2×4, but we do have bigger plans. Gary did a great job of ripping an old cedar log which will be layed end to end to create the new wetland crossing.

Meanwhile, Craig put together a new small bridge using some of the left over two by, to cross a mud problem.

Inspired by Pimp my Trail, I mined rock with John to fill in some of the other mud holes.