Trail Care Day Mt Coot-tha Forest Saturday 29 April 2006

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Trail Care Day - Mt Coot-tha Forest (Gap Creek)

• Work Sponsor - BCC
• Member to contact - Oppy
• Other Co-ordinators - Winner, Kram, Gillian

• Date - 29 April 2006
• Start Time - 7:00
• Finish Time - 11:00 or earlier if work completed prior
• Meeting Point - Bielby Road Entry to Mt Coot-tha Forest UBD 157 L17, we will then make our way to the work site from here, either by vehicle or bike.
• What to Bring - yourself in covered shoes, appropriate sun safe clothing (long sleeves and pants will add extra protection) and hat/helmet (if riding lock for your bike as well), fluids for the course of the day and/or your hydration pack, food/snack (snakes seem to be the preferred option), gloves (leather is good), sunscreen.
• Tools - Hand tools such as shovels, fire rakes, mattocks are usually supplied by the work sponsor. Chain saws and other powered equipment are only operated by qualified work sponsor employed staff.
• Other - some paperwork will need to be completed a sign in/out sheet

Work to be completed
We did not get the reroute done we planned to last time 25th March so I assume that's still the plan. The new route will be longer to lower the gradient. There are 2 new creek/gully crossing points which will need some rock armouring. I have taken the alignment to where there are areas with lower gradients into the gully to make them sustainable and also where there is underlying rock which should make for technical feature crossings. Not sure we will be able to get all the work done in one go so we may have to create some stockpiles of materials and leave the old section of trail open. I guess it will depend on how many turn up.

Why work is necessary
The reroute is to go around a couple of sections of 'fall line' trail that is rutting out and to avoid a degraded Ck Crossing.

Trail Care Walkthrough/Preview
The alignment has been flagged for nearly month now. You have another week to take another look. Some one has nicked a couple of pin flags but it's still easy to see.

have any questions please feel free to contact me via PM, email or post the questions here. If there is anything I have not covered, please feel free to ask.

If there are changes to the above information they will be posted here.

Image courtesy of MTBDirt.com.au Map of existing and proposed work. The blue lines represent official tracks on the track map. The Green Lines are proposed and realigned sections. Map now updated.

 

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Updated with new map and start time.