We finished building a short section of trail at Gisburn on Sunday, replacing this
with

and this

followed by this
leading to this

around this

up this

to this

and this

finishing here

There are a few other bits in there as well.

i want to go there 🙂

Excellent work, I'm looking forward to riding it tomorrow.

End of the old red section just before (5 yards) you hit the fireroad, it's even been signed up!

That looked like a top quality fire road, and now you've sanitised it and replaced it with just another boring purpose built trail, what a liberty

jon – does that mean you ride it at the end of the north loop & end of the south loop – replacing a bit of the fire road that forms the centre of the 'figure of eight'?

what tyres for that though?

So it's now boardwalk and gravel how very natural is that.I thought mountain biking was about getting back to nature and getting into the hills

A bit naive Edric, sorry. Tell the Vancouverites they can't built North Shore any more.

I thought it was about having fun.

Looks very good, will be heading back to Gisburn soon to try it out.

I thought mountain biking was about getting back to nature and getting into the hills

Lots of other things you could do to get back to nature a bit more than mountain biking. I love getting out into the hills but sometimes I also love a quick blast round some man made stuff.

Looks good – nice one.

A bit naive Edric, sorry. Tell the Vancouverites they can't built North Shore any more.

Pallets in the sky? I dont like that either

Looks sweet. Will look forward to riding that when I'm over they next time 8)

Just in case there was any doubt, I was joking with my comment above! With Edric's posts it's probably a bit harder to tell than I intended

Top dig at the weekend full of banter and that section is now finished! Looking forward to starting the new section!

Looks brilliant! I'm off work this week, and Now I'm thinking I need to go up and have play round Gisburn! Anybody else going to be there on wednesday?

Great work Jon et al – might try & get a lap in on the STW Weekender… errr…. weekend, to get a self-portrait next to the exit section pointing to some gravel I may / may not have barrowed 🙂

Nice one Jon, stuck it on our trailbuilding group

http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=6147172660&topic=4910#!/group.php?gid=308540858499

eeeewww, north shore….[shudders]

Looking good 😎

Nasty! What's wrong with natural trails!

jon – does that mean you ride it at the end of the north loop and end of the south loop – replacing a bit of the fire road that forms the centre of the 'figure of eight'?

You can if you want, it's intended as an end to the north loop. There are long term plans to bypass the fireroad completely on the south loop so the two loops will cross rather than share a section.

For those of you who don't want to ride the logs there are chicken runs around them all. The rest of the woodwork on that section is there to cross ditches and boggy sections (believe me they are boggy, my boots have only just dried out). For those of you complaining it's not natural, er that's rather the point, if you want natural riding then maybe a trail centre's not for you. If it's any consolation the next section we're planning to build will be pretty much straight (with a few corners) singltrack, again removing a long section of boring fireroad so hopefully that'll float a few more boats (except Northwind obviously 😆 , for you there are plans for a loverly new surfaced carpark so you'll be able to ride around in circles to your hearts content).

Rode Gisburn last night. The new bit in the photos is another great piece of volunteer built singletrack, keep up the good work. 8)

The newly re-surfaced Hully Gully was superb fun and had us all grinning when we reached the end, only downside was that off the smooth line it was very loose in places.

What's the plan with the sections leading up to the slab etc? Is it going to be re-surfaced and repaired by the contractors or is it going to be a volunteer project?