Granby Ranch Bike Park

Singletrack Trails was awarded the contract at Granby Ranch Bike Park, formerly known as Sol Vista Bike Park, this spring.  We are getting the existing downhill trails ready for the summer season and then we are going to work on creating some real cross-country trails.

The resort is set to open up for lift serve mountain biking on May 25th.  Singletrack Trails has a tight time table to get this work done after finishing up maintenance at the Fruita Bike Park and the PBR Trail at 18Rd.  Our first focus was getting the trails in shape after a “winter” of snow.  The crew dressed up the berms and jumps on most of the trails and added working drainage features to help the trails last a little longer by getting the water off of the trail as much as possible.  We are now working to create some newness to existing jumps and berms.  Given our curvi-linear layout of trails, it can be expected that most of the jumps we build will not be straight and require some sort of hip or pocket berm to get through it.

Formerly a straight jump that now has pocket berm as a lander

 

This was a skidder route around a drop. Now there is fun.

 

Another view of the new section.

Here are a couple slide shows from the work over the last couple of weeks.

PBR Trail Video

PBR Trail construction concluded

Singletrack Trails completed the construction of PBR Trail in Fruita, Colorado in time for the Fruita Fat Tire Festival.  It was great to complete the trail in time for the festival to provide a new trail experience at 18Rd.  This project could not have been completed on the timeline that it was without the project partners of the City of Fruita, the Grand Junction BLM, COPMOBA, all the local businesses that collected donations, and Fruita Singletrack.

You can still help build more trails be constructed in Fruita by donating to Fruita Singletrack.

Here is a slideshow of the completed work.  Look for a video in the next couple of days.

PBR Trail construction continues

Another week of construction has been completed on the PBR Trail in Fruita, Colorado.  It was a week filled of more dust and wind.  It is not often you hear trailbuilders begging for the nearest rain cloud to produce moisture.  But that has been the mantra of the Singletrack Trails crew this week.  We need moisture.  A good two feet of snow would be awesome.

The Fruita Singletrack folks and COPMOBA are still trying to fundraise to complete more trails that are in the approval process for construction.  In addition to the fundraising the BLM is utilizing youth corps funding to have the Western Colorado Conservation Corps out constructing Zip Off.

Here are some photos of the work this week.

Fruita Trail construction begins

Do your rain dance!  The soil is dry and dusty, but trail construction began today on 18 Roads latest addition.  Not many words to say after the day, but rain is our friend.  We need the moisture.

Here are the photos:

James shapes a berm.

Aaron builds up a berm.

The rock helps to keep the moon dust in place.

Dirt ribbon.

Clouds of moisture tease us.

Left, Right, Up, Down...never straight.

In the Juniper Trees.