Berm building

After looking at the switchback section with fresh eyes I worked out why it was still riding slow, the berm at the bottom was no where near long enough to hold your speed through the corner.


So after about 2hrs of slogging (Large logs are much harder to cut and move by yourself)- the berm now looks like this:

I've also insloped the corner a fair bit more and put hardwood stakes behind the logs to make them nice and solid. If I get the time I'm going to extend the berm a bit further up the hill, but there are a lot of other jobs with higher priority.

My cumulative time working on track: 45hrs
Total work time for track: 126hrs

GPS route profile of new single track

Having downloaded the data from the GPS,time to have a look at it.

First stop Google Earth, very cool illustration and gives a good feel for the trackFor something a bit more informative though i exported the data to a *.GPX file and put the data into GPS Visualizer .

With a little fiddling you can set the program to colour code the slopes of your track, and from that you can trouble shoot the spots where the grade is too steep to be sustainable. Particularly keeping in mind IMBA's 10% average grade guideline. Most of the track looks good- though I may change the bottom of the track just a little bit.