Wednesday Night Ride

We're on for tomorrow night.

Swope Wednesday Night Mountain Bike Ride with parking up top.

Here's how it works:

Gate entrance will open at 6:30 and close at 6:45. If you come after 6:45...tough luck.

You can ride as long as you'd like as long as you want as long as that means you're done by 8:50p.  You can leave anytime, but the exit gate wil be locked at 9pm.

We've been able to work out this deal to allow us to do this ride, don't ruin it for everyone else. If we have problems we will simply no longer do this ride.

Wudchuk Run (Homestead) Work

Another great day of rock work...

Sunday Afternoon Work

Quick update from this afternoon (Sam, Joe, Dick, Travis, Craig):
-We continued worked on the benchcut from the creek to the powerline road.
-Destaubed the loop all way to the Playground.
-The GWP drop is cleared and ready for dirt work.

Scott, Travis, and I will be working on the rock chute this week.

We plan to have a work day in 2 weeks, December 1st.  Details to follow.

Workday Recap

Perfect trail work weather today. We had 18 people show up and bust out some choice bench cut and corridor work. Travis, Sam, and I rode the benchcut afterwards...we will need to do very little work to finish the line..we nailed it and it has beautiful flow. Good Job, everyone! The corridor for the whole Homestead area is nearly done as well. It's going to be a hard but fun area.

Today's Crew:

Tom Boehme

Andre' Davis

Lowel Premer

Mike Flynn

Zach Barnes

Tim Quinlan

Colin Weigel

Chris Grill

Sergio Zaderenko

Ruth VanWye

Dan Patti

Mutt Buxton

Sam Wise

Scott Cotter

Greg Rupp

Richard Renner

Travis Stephens

Craig Stoeltzing

Weekly Wednesday Night Ride @ Swope

Starting next week, the 21st, we will have a weekly night ride @ Swope with the kicker being that we will be able to park up top.

Here's how it's going to work initially:

Gate entrance will open at 6:30 and close at 6:45. If you come after 6:45...tough luck.

You can ride as long as you'd like as long as you want as long as that means you're done by 8:50p.

The exit gate wil be locked at 9pm.

We've been able to work out this deal to allow us to do this ride, don't ruin it for everyone else. If we have problems we will simply no longer do this ride.

Workday this Saturday, Nov 17th

Wudchuk Run (Homestead) Trail Work Day
Saturday, November 17th
Noon-3pm (note the time...we are working in the afternoon to accommodate the hunters)

This Saturday will be a good chance to see what we have in store for the next phase of Wudchuk Run.  We can use workers of all levels of expertise.  We will have some intense rock and benchcut work as well a corridor work for the new folks.

We will have a 10 minute hike to get to/from our work zone, so plan to bring all the food & drink you will need for the duration.  We'll also need to all hike in/out together.  So be on time, please.

Meeting Place:
Hogan/swimming pool at Camp Lake of the Woods on top of the hill. From the main Swope trailhead, drive up Oakwood Drive, take a left at the "Y" and continue on about 300 yards. See map on the right hand side of the page for directions to the Swope Park trails.  We will then drive to our hike in point.

Tools:
The usual trail tools...Rakes, Shovels, McLeods, Pulaskis, Rogue Hoes, Weedeaters, Blowers, Handsaws, Chainsaws, etc. If you don't have tools, come anyway...we should have plenty.

Recommended Clothing:
Long pants
Boots/Shoes with protection
Work Gloves
Safety Glasses
Bug Spray

Trail Tasting Afterwards:
If the trails are rideable and/or hikeable, we'll do a trail tasting after the workday.

Wudchuk Run (Phase 5) work started on Sunday

If you were at the workday on Saturday you got a map preview of our next phase of  Swope.  We hope to build approx 2 miles this winter...this will bring Wudchuk Run to the Marci's Playground area.  These two miles will be an even mix of rocky/technical trail and smooth/flowy trail.

The following winter we will add another 1-2 miles which will complete Wudchuk Run.  That will give us the Rancho D-Lux loop, Wudchuk Run loop, and the Kid's Loop (former known as the Short-Track loop)

We've been scouting the new phase extensively over the last 2 months and couldn't wait to get rolling, so four of us worked on corridor on Sunday.  This new area of Wudchuk Run will be referred to as "The Homestead".  You'll need to put on your climbing legs for this section.

We plan to have a workday for this area on the 17th in the afternoon...(Yes, afternoon due to managed deer hunt).  Stay tuned for further details.

Below are a couple teaser pics.  The pictures were taken in a little playground area which will have several intermediate and hard lines running thru it. 

Rancho D-Lux FINISHED...Thank You!!!

What an incredible turn out today!  35 people showed up to play in the dirt, and we were able to finish everything that we thought would take the next 2 weeks to finish up.  We even had time to add in a neat little off-shoot feature that turned out supa-sweet.

Couple Notes:
With the dirt as dry as it is, the tread surface will be loose and sketchy until we get  a decent rain...don't cuss us yet.

We'll have a couple small fine-tuning details to finish up over the next week as we get the opportunity to spend some time on the trail and see what needs attention.  We already have a couple turns we want to work on & a log we forgot about.

The trail formerly known as the short-track is now a dedicated, self-contained kid's loop.

A huge thank you to ERTA and Spiderfest for the new Rogue Hoes.  The new version is perfection on a stick.

We will be posting a new map shortly.

Swope Notes

Just a quick heads up on a couple fronts...

-We will be making a lot of changes around the red cabin area over the next 2 weeks.  It will be confusing until we are all finished.  Please bear with us and be patient.  It will make sense when we are all finished...It's all part of the bigger plan.  We started making changes today with the goal of being done by November 11th.  Don't forget the work day this Saturday.

-A request from us:  I hate to ruin anyone's fun, but if we are in the middle of working and are running power equipment either turn around or get off your bike & walk around us giving us a wide berth.  Today, I was running a brushcutter with a metal blade and 2 Strava Kings came within just a foot or two of my blade...hopefully it scared them...because I know it did me.  Common sense, Folks.

-The annual managed deer hunt starts Nov 5 and runs through Jan 15 @ Swope Park CLW area .  Please be respectful of all park users.