Tranq trail day was a huge success! Nineteen people came out to get the trail ready to ride again. The drainage issues have been repaired on the inner loop descent. Add 3 re-routes, 2 alternative lines, a dozen water bars, edging, trash pick up and everything else completed to make a very productive day. Thank you to everyone that worked today!

The trail day for Tranq and Swanson on Tuesday March 31st has been cancelled. Tranq is set and Swanson is in excellent shape as well. Let's ride!

Tranquility is open!!!!!!!

Another fun day at the trail. Made it out around noonish and met up with Marc and his boys. We got the first 2 re-routes mowed and wacked. They had to head out, so i kept rolling. Weed wacked for a bit and stopped to top off the tank, ripped the start cord and ended up with it in my hand. Ugh, ran to home depot and grabbed another wacker to keep going. Got the s downhill cleaned up and headed for the north loop for the last re-route. Got the final re-route put in and the bumps shaped for flow. Ended up fooling around and building another wall ride sense our big one is no longer rideable thanks to city dirt work. While i was building that, i eyed another wicked line coming out of the wall ride. It would be a crazy, lumpy line but i doubt it is useable. If it didn't go across the main trail, i'd probably consider it for an alternate line. It would be sweet. Maybe after we get the rest of the trail back open...

As far as the trail being open, we might was well take the closed sign down. Better than a dozen riders out there today and none of them cared if the trail was closed or not. What sucks, is someone is going to get hurt and it will be our fault. Evidently 4' X 4' closed signs at the entrances and caution tape around the trailhead are not obvious enough to stop riders from doing whatever they want.

Rain tonight and the next 2 days. This will be a good test of the erosion control barriers we installed. Gonna head out Wed night and see how it worked and make a final checklist for Sunday trail day. No pics today, kid had the camera shooting video for his gnar kill metal grind whatever core band. 6 hours trail time today, hurt like hell... I'm going to bed...

the council went out and worked again today and got some additional re-routes laid out. We also did around 4 hours of dirt work to get ready for the upcoming rains. Definitely a dedicated group of individuals...

City ran across our muddy trails with a tractor and dug several nice trenches for us. Also nice to see the poachers in full force today. I have pics of vehicles with plate numbers, should i post them? I went back up to flag some stuff and those 3 cars got rotated with some new ones. Glad everyone can read. I tossed some nice logs and debris on the trail for them. Hope they appreciate it. Pics for all...

Got a couple hours in tonight at tranq. Got some grade reversals in and more to accomplish over the weekend. Nice to see the poaching continues.

Got one re-route roughed in and a couple more flagged. Always nice to see people ignoring the huge closed signs and riding in the mud anyway. It would have been sweet to catch a couple. Probably a better thing i didn't...

New blue section is trashed as well now, along with areas of the creek section that a runner went right up the middle of. I just don't see the fun in rolling thru mud. It kills parts and generally sucks to try and ride in. Going to work most the weekend to nail down things for the trail day. Need to get things fixed before someone gets hurt and the city closes the trail down...

TRANQUILITY IS CLOSED!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For an interesting perspective, compare the trail marker in the march post with the one in the feb post. Same marker. Amazing how much dirt is coming out of the hill and they may not be done yet. It is going to be a busy spring. Hope to see lots of smiling faces at the Trail Day March 31, 6pm @ the trailhead.

Tranq is closed!!!!!

Man, i'd love to catch the clowns out riding in the mud...

Pics are up of the erosion issues we are facing, along with bank erosion on the creek trails. Throw in a major re-route and 2-3 smaller ones and we are looking at another summer of major trail work.