Charlottesville Area Mountain Bike Club

Trail Work

CAMBC is involved with performing trail work at a number of regional venues. Areas we help maintain include Walnut Creek Park, Observatory Hill, Sherando/Big Levels and various other spots in the George Washington National Forest. When attending any work day, CAMBC recommends you wear long pants, full shoes, eye protection and work gloves. Bringing any hand saws, chainsaws, clippers, or other tools to use would also be helpful. Please also bring food and water for yourself to stay happy and hydrated. And always remember, trail work is FUN!

Reporting Needed Trailwork

To facilitate reporting of areas of trails that need work (downed logs, wasp/bee nests, etc., CAMBC has marked up copies of O-Hill and Walnut Creek Park trail maps. Please use the labels corresponding to the section of trail that needs work on the marked up versions of the trail maps to facilitate communication with trailwork crews:

• Marked up O-Hill Trail Map
• Marked up Walnut Creek Trail Map
• Older marked up Walnut Creek Trail Map. This map may be easier to read for reporting purposes.

Please report trail conditions and needed trailwork to the CAMBC Forum under Trail Conditions or Trailwork, respectively.

Upcoming Work Days

We tentatively schedule trail work at Walnut Creek for the first Saturday of each month at 10am in the fishing parking lot, but these work days are frequently rescheduled so stay tuned to the CAMBC Forum (check in Trailwork forum subtopic) and this web page for updates.

Date	Event	Location	Description
2008/09/17	United Way Day of Caring Event	Charlottesville VA	United Way Day of Caring Event -- Thomas Jefferson Area

Trail Work Performed - 2008

Date	Location	# People	Hours	Total Hours	Work Performed
2008/01/06	Walnut Creek Park	1	3.5	3.5	Leafblowing
2008/01/12	Walnut Creek Park	7	3.0	21.0	Clearing blowdowns, deberming, rerouting eroded trail.
2008/01/19	McIntire Park	20	3.0	60.0	Started building the beginning of freeride style trail with UVA Mountain Bike Club. 2 log rides, 1 tabletop jump, plus some bermed turns.
2008/01/23	McIntire Park	1	2.0	2.0	Worked on jumps.
2008/01/26	McIntire Park	1	4.0	4.0	Worked on log ride and jumps.
2008/01/30	McIntire Park	1	2.0	2.0	Worked on jumps.
2008/02/03	McIntire Park	1	3.0	3.0	Worked on log ride.
2008/02/05	McIntire Park	1	2.0	2.0	Worked on log ride.
2008/02/09	McIntire Park	1	4.0	4.0	Worked on jumps.
2008/02/09	Walnut Creek Park	12	2.5	30.0	Building trail and in-sloped turn
2008/02/14	McIntire Park	1	2.0	2.0	Raking and worked on jumps.
2008/02/15	McIntire Park	2	3.0	6.0	Clearing the trail, working on the big jump, extended the berm after the jump, collected/delivered wood, cleared leaves for possible trail extensions.
2008/02/17	McIntire Park	2	3.0	6.0	Clearing the trail, working on the big jump, extended the berm after the jump, collected/delivered wood, cleared leaves for possible trail extensions.
2008/02/23	McIntire Park	1	2.0	2.0	Continued berm work.
2008/03/01	McIntire Park	1	3.0	3.0	Continued work on freeride trail section: berms, jumps
2008/03/02	Walnut Creek Park	16	3.0	48.0	Part 1 of dam loop reroute with Ditch Witch and manual finishing/old trail reclamation
2008/03/02	Walnut Creek Park	2	3.3	6.6	Walked & cleaned all the trails except red loop of impassable fallen trees.
2008/04/05	Walnut Creek Park	29	3.0	87.0	Dam loop reroute and old trail reclamation. Connector trail rebenching.
2008/04/19	Whetstone Ridge	8	9.0	72.0	Removing blow downs, 2 areas of benching, and clearing the trail corridor.
2008/04/29	Walnut Creek Park	11	2.0	22.0	Building grade dips and clearing drainages.
2008/05/03	Walnut Creek Park	1	1.5	1.5	Clearing blow downs & closing short cuts.
2008/05/06	Walnut Creek Park	8	2.0	16.0	Building grade dips and clearing drainages.
2008/05/06	Whetstone Ridge	4	2.5	10.0	Clearing blowdowns and opening up the corridor on Kennedy Ridge.
2008/05/08	Walnut Creek Park	7	2.0	14.0	Building grade dips and clearing blowdowns.
2008/05/09	Walnut Creek Park	3	2.0	6.0	Pre-Chimney Chase scouting for downed logs to clear.
2008/05/13	Walnut Creek Park	9	2.0	18.0	Repairing water bars and clearing drainages.
2008/06/07	Rivanna Trail/National Trails Day Event	6	2.5	13.0	Building new trails in honor of National Trails Day.
2008/06/27	Rivanna Trail	2	2.0	4.0	Brushing
2008/06/27	Rivanna Trail	1	2.0	2.0	Brushing
2008/06/28	O-Hill	1	3.0	3.0	Brushing
2008/06/28	O-Hill	2	2.0	4.0	Brushing
Total				476.6

Past Workdays

Date	Event	Location	Description
2008/07/12	CAMBC Mint Sprints workday 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.	Mint Springs Park Crozet

Here are links to our trailwork totals from 2007, 2006, 2005,2004, 2003, and years past.