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Lynn Woods
Trail Maintenance - 2008
Project Location: Lynn Woods
Project #: LYW042608
Date:
04.26.2008
With the help of the local biking
community, Dieselbikes was able to complete 80% of our first trail day in
Lynn Woods. This was a huge project and we able to achieve our main
goal of cutting and define the trail thread.
A crew of 16 volunteers work 6 hours
cutting, digging and armoring a section of new trail that is sure to be one
of the best lines in Lynn to date for mountain bikers. We were able to
complete most of the required trail work, but not able to finish two
important and difficult switch backs due to time and energy levels of the
volunteers. Dieselbikes plans on going back out with our core team to
adjust and finish these sections over the next month.
We will be truthful, the trail is open
and ready to use, but we are sure most people will hate it because it is not
complete and does not have any flow. Dieselbikes suggest you wait a
few weeks before hitting this new section over by the power lines and allow
us to dial in the two switchbacks. Riding this section now may help us
determine the best line mountain bikers want to follow. In either
case, we will have it dialed in shortly.
The general direction of flow for
mountain bikers is down the hillside from Bow Ridge to the El Sweeny Trail.
If you wait a few months after we finish our adjustments and the trail packs
down, this section will make a sick up hill climb that rivals the grueling
leg burner from the Ballfield parking lot up to the top of sunset hill.
This trail features a stone slab bridge that crosses a running stream with
technical rock gardens on both ends. Other features include natural
rock faces and kickers that will keep your fingers on the brakes checking
your speed.
I want to extend my personal thanks to
each individual (listed below) that helped complete this project. The
amount of work completed was unparallel to any other trail project we have
attempted. This was a large scale project and everyone worked their ASSES
off! I look forward to see everyone again in future trail builds
and/or maintenance projects.
Simon – Somerville,
Russ – Somerville,
Pete – Lynn,
Carole – Somerville,
Eric – Derry,
Greg – Medford
Jacob - Medford,
Nathaniel - Medford, Sherwin – Cambridge,
John – Stoneham,
Nate – Lynnfield,
Tina – Lynn,
Frank – Lynn,
Jeff – Danvers,
Gerardo – Lynn & Another guy named
Pete – Lynn
Trail Day Work Crew (not all volunteers shown) Everyone was working hard, even the little guys Trail path to rock kicker first of many rock gardens Typical Lynn Woods - Notice the car parts Rock garden just before stone bridge A second angle of the rock garden Sherwin the new guy farming some rock Building a footing for the stone bridge Finding and moving the perfect rock Moving it slow and careful Carol jumping the stream gap Getting ready for the big move Making sure everything is ready The final push to completion Russ and Gerardo farming rock for the trail bed Trail bed coming together Downward view from the mid way point Work on a huge switchback Laying the key stones to lock everything in place
Trail Day Work Crew (not all volunteers shown)
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