IMBA Tool Trailer Travels to London, Ontario
This past weekend, two IMBA employees along with a big group of volunteers from both the Upper Thames Conversation Authority and the London Mountain Bike Club, congregated at Fanshawe Lake for an IMBA trails workshop.
Equipped with the IMBA Trail Solutions trailer, Trail Specialist Daniel Scott along with Ontario Rep Jason Murray led this band of keen mountain bikers in taking a fall line section of trail which led to a bridge and transforming it into a winding section of singletrack.
The classic weekend format was followed with a Saturday morning classroom session to discuss the principles of sustainable trail design followed by that afternoon and the following day in the field putting these to practice.
The volunteers worked tirelessly to bench cut new approach trail sections as well as two bermed corners with inside climbing lines. They also worked extensively to closed and rehabilitate the old piece of trail, which was in fact an old road bed, breaking up the soil along with transplanting grasses & shrubs.
The UTCA provided some stellar lunches for us all while the local golf course’s tent gave good shelter during the spatters of rain we saw throughout the weekend.
By the end of Sunday’s build, the trail was complete and test ridden both directions with the results being a relatively easy up and big smiles down!
I’d like to thank all the volunteers who came out to build, either for one day or two. You guys were awesome and really put the principles to practice. The rehabilitation work, while not glamourous, was critical to the reroute and you guys tackled it with vigor and determination. The results show all this with great effect, nice work!!
Time Lapse of Trail Work