BUILDING NEW SINGLETRACK AT END OF CHARLIE CANYON - NEED HELP!!

[Yeturner]

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Building new singletrack at end of Charlie canyon. Need more hands on deck. Going out monday 11-2 and possibly friday 11-6. Trying to connect old trail to top of fireroad near the towers. Making the trail so you can climb or descend it. Trail begins at end of Charlie you head right into the canyon just passed the fireroad that heads up to platueau open area on the normal tapia climb. If you are climbing the fireroad to connect charlie and tapia look over to your left and that is the new trail in the canyon below. Once you get to the gnarly up hill that the motos go up the trail makes a hard RIGHT TURN and goes up the canyon.
More hands on deck needed for brush clearing etc. I have many tools and can meet anyone out there. I will try to attach pictures of the trail so far. You can call me anytime at 805-338-9696 on my cell and discuss. Thanks...Randy

[Johnny29er]

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Hey Randy,
Would like to help with the trail but my time would be limited to weekends. If this works in your plans, email me. I want to give back since I ride Tapia/Charlie almost every weekend and would like it to be available for as long as possible before the developers get ahold of it  .
John

[rakkar]

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post up if you still plan on going out this Friday.  I am trying to free up the day.
Ross

[Yeturner]

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gonna possibly be out there friday. i have a dentist appt. at 10am in studio city. Tom is most likely going to be there with a few friends.
call me before friday and i will give you the head count of who is heading up.
805-338-9696
anyone else interested in helping call
We finished another .125 miles of hillside and creek today. Now we are at the narrow canyon section where we need to cross the creek a few times. not too many bushes just need to make transitions smooth to keep momentum up and be able to climb from the bottom.

here is a link to the garmin navigation i did today. hope it works.
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/17856235

[jeffj]

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You and Tom are animals. This can be a very sweet trail. It goes relatively fast, but we could knock this thing out much quicker with some bodies there. The sooner we get it done, the sooner we'll have what could be the funnest slice of trail out there yet.

[Yeturner]

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You got that right.
So far planning to go out again this friday. Need more bodies to help.
If you get out there and work we need to keep the trail as "free from curves" as possible. The naturual curve of the canyon will rob enough momentum. If we keep the trail as straight as possible
the canyon will do the rest.
About .50 miles to go and we will be ready to ride. BUT.......
we need bodies.
Call me if interested in helping at 805-338-9696 Thanks...Randy

[Xmxr]

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Hey guys,

Tom told me about your site a couple of days ago so I decided to register

Not 100% sure I'll make it Friday, but it is my day off and I need to ride, so I might as well work on the trail too. 

Looking forward to meeting everyone !

[hereandthere]

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I've been itchin' to do some trail building. I would love to pitch in, but usually don't know if I have time until that day. If I go up alone, do you guys have the line you want marked, so I know the plan on where to work? I was about to start a little diversion off Kona that looks like it would provide a nice sort of half-pipe feel but I can put that on the backburner for now. It's always more motivating to have a whole crew for a project. Solo trail building goes so slow.

[hereandthere]

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Checked out the trail today. Nice work. Looks like quite a project.

[Yeturner]

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Tom and two or three more going out 9am tomorrow. I will be out there from noon to three. I will be bringing a bunch of brc burritos from pollo loco. Can't get there earlier as I have a dentist appointment.
Questions call me on cell.
805-338-9696
Randy

[Xmxr]

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Shoot...........if I had known that you were bringing burritos on Friday I would stayed a bit longer !  That's slow hard work making a trail !

Tom told me you guys added quite a bit of distance after we left.... although it's still a long way to go before the trail is completed.

Gotta say that the bit of trail that is completed is a lot fun.

Hopefully I'll be able to make it back out there next weekend.
 
     

[Yeturner]

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Going out today with dan cole. Moderator of this site.
Friday is the big build day. 8am to about 2 if you can make it call me at 805-338-9696

[Xmxr]

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Can't make Friday....gotta work, however, I do have every other Friday off, so I'll make it a point to make time to work on the trail at least a few hours whenever possible.  Unfortunately I usually don't get home until after dark on weekdays so I can't help on workdays...although I did go up there last Thursday night just to check it out........totally different looking at night !! 

If you get a chance, take some pictures and post them !

[Yeturner]

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pictures from today. This is the area at the creek crossing with all the broken trees before. It took alot of clearing but we did it.
Tom will be out there friday am early. I may head out a couple more days during this week to clear some brush in the creek ahead. Looks like we need to ride the creek for about .10 mile through the narrows and then we can get out.

[Yeturner]

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picture of dan on the new "very narrow" bridge.