It Begins

Ok here's the deal.
I've been given the go-ahead to start building a 24hr MTB course, and thought it would be good to share the experience so others can learn from my mistakes (and hopefully successes).

I have had quite a bit of experience building tracks with the Gap Creek Trails Alliance and some building on private property, but this will be my first 24hr course. Luckily for me, the property already has a lot of fantastic single track, and the event manager has put a lot of thought into the layout he wants. All I gotta do is get the existing tracks ready to handle 24hrs of punishment, design the new links and organise their building-simple huh.

The specifics of the build:

• ~17km long looping track
• about 75% single track
• low undulating country with some flowing horse made single track to use.
• about 1.5km of single track to be built.

The location is a private property in Queensland Australia, I'm not giving any more details as to its location because if we end up with people trespassing before the race, the owner will pull the race approval. I'm sure some of you will be smart enough to figure out where the course is, but I hope your also smart enough to not ruin it for us all.

Cumulative time working on track: 5hrs