L.L. Stub Stewart State Park Build Day

Here's the general plan for building at Stub Stewart State Park... for November (and probably December too):

9am check-in (at Clayhill Horse Camp parking area towards top of park)

9:30am tool checkout, task group formation, safety talk

tasks:

* clear maintenance access corridor (6' tread, 8'-10' corridor)
- maintenance tree limbing
- bucking logs
- cut tread as needed (one team)
- remove duff (next team)
- sculpting/compaction (followup team)
- transplant cedar saplings (handled by Steve)
- placement of gravel along certain section will be handled by park

* continue benchcut of single-track to freeride access point (30" tread max)
- remove trail obstructions along edge (water barriers)
- grade first turn after cedar tree
- place material on flat trail for grade reversal dips (to push water off flat section of trail and add "funness")
- cut tread as needed (one team)
- remove duff (next team)
- sculpting/compaction (followup team)

* continue benchcut of single-track around hill #1 to skill area (30" tread max)
- assess proposed flag route and adjust as necessary based on feedback
- cut tread as needed (one team)
- remove duff (next team)
- sculpting/compaction (followup team)

3pm - gather tools, head back to Clayhill Horse camp parking area

He announced that Trail Plan for Stub is going to be revamped later this year - to flesh out more detail on single-track and skill features. He'd like input from local riders and trail builders (couple of representatives).

Expectation is that bridges will be built by June 2009 by OPRD (they have funding, materials, and agreement with a build crew) - and they'll be big enough to accomodate driving a mini-excavator across (whoo hoo!)

Per the Master Plan, bulk of mountain biking zone build work (including design and layout) will be undertaken by volunteer joint collaborative build team (the mountain biking zone is built by mountain bikers for mountain bikers... in cooperation with Oregon Parks & Recreation trail manager)


My hope... By summer 2009, complete primary XC single-track from entrance to mountain biking zone and linking into existing trail at south point within park (i.e. you'd be able to ride a 5 - 6 mile loop with about 3 miles on single-track and the rest on wide shared use trail).

We can do this!  Together.