Thanks to Matt D from WHIMPS for the following post…
The day started with coffee, donuts (provided by Fanatik), and good times in the upper Padden lot gearing up and getting ready to leave for a day on the trails. I counted 35 people in the parking lot milling around before catching a ride up to get started. We gathered everyone together and were all dispersed and working hard by 10:45. I walked from the bottom of the work zone to the top around 11:30 and there were 42 people working – this doesn’t include the number of other people who stopped by to help out for an hour or so. I would say that we had around 50 people total help out in some capacity – WOW! Definitely our biggest turnout this year! Fanatik personally had a number of people come and help out, not to mention providing lunch, Red Bull, and other bevies. We were able to get the lower scorp reroute buffed and 90% done – it just needs some tweaking to make the berms and step-up hit right. Also, we got 90% of the upper luge section down to mineral dirt, shaped, bermed, a nice jump built, and a natural spring diverted (thanks to a couple of civil engineers). The day finished with 6 or 7 people hittin’ the new upper luge section over and over, good times for sure. A special thanks to the following people:
Fanatik Bike: with their 2 sponsored trail days this season, it brought in well over 80 volunteers for our local trails and about 300 plus hours of labor – not to mention the owners Mark and Kathy were diggin’ hard along with a number of their employees and friends – not to mention all the food and beverages!
Volunteers: We have gotten so much done this year because of the huge turnouts!
Greg: The guy on Galbraith lane who has built that incredible compound. He arranged access to the coveted gate that rarely gets used – this made it much easier and enabled a bunch of cars up that wouldn’t have made the death climb.
Tim and Louise: The owners of Una and the horses that let us use their gate to make access easier.
Trillium and Jon Syre – Without them we may not be able to build trails there.
If you see any of these people, give a big thanks!
