Over the last couple of years many MTB riders local to Holmbury/Peaslake have been working very hard to paint us riders in a good light to the Hurtwood control.
This culminated in the Hurtwood control taking a very open minded view of us and allowing sanctioned trailbuilding/maintenance.
The most high profile and obvious advantage of this is that funding was obtained to rebuild the bottom section of the trail known as BarryKnowsBest.
Back in the autumn approx 500 metres of fresh trail was built by a trailbuilding contractor. This has been mainly greeted as a very good thing, and is ridden by A LOT of riders, and even the local residents are in favour of the 'management' of a few MTB trails.
This weekend some twonk decided to build two large jumps on this new section of trail.
The twonk has dug a VERY large pit, and buried quite a few logs on the fastest part of the trail after a bermed corner. A local resident witnessed the jump/s being built and is absolutely fuming about MTB riders wielding spades and pick axes in the forest in an unsanctioned way.
The Hurtwood ranger Mark is also extremely unhappy.
If you know who did this please ask them to not do it again
The jumps have been removed and a build day will have to arranged to 'tidy-up' the aftermath.
As an aside, a push-up track has been created through the bracken so that people can 'session' the bottom section of BKB, the ranger is going to block this, please use the bridleway back to the top, it is only short and is an established right of way.
Think before you act.
