Excellent start to the year

The first dig day of 2008 turned out to be a stormer !

Nice weather and the best turn out we have seen for a long time. Got loads of maintenance done on sections 1 through 3, they needed some TLC, someone put bit more of a lip on that table top too

Thanks to Duncan, Mark, Paul E, Dave S, Ben, Derek, Mikkel, Si west, Jon from SCC, erm did I forget anyone ? Couple more folks who rode by said they would be down next time.... Great start to 2008 many thanks to all.


Next Dig is Feb 24th, Time to build some more bridges. 1 gully in section 2, 1 in section 5, then who knows, the magic trail pixies may have flagged section 7 to start on by then

Vandalism of the XC Trail markers

Well were really trying to mark up the red route, unfortunatley someone else is doing all they can to un do our work.

Dave and I headed up at 8:00 this morning to get cracking with finishing the Red trail markers, Unfourtunatley we spent half of our time up there putting back what we had originally placed last time.
The markers at the begining and end of Section 4 had been removed, we found them again thrown in the woods. Also right out on the TPT towards oughtibridge we placed one last time and that had gone and we couldn't find it. For what its worth, all were in place on December 22nd, so its happend between then and today.

We've replaced the posts, with 7" nails in the bottom and a bag of post mix in each, we've also dug them deeper. So were confident that they will stay this time, if some one is going to remove them it will take considerable effort.

If anyone spots someone removing posts please can they email me with a description to xc@wharncliffe.info Its plain and simple vandalism, STA will try to work with FE to prosecute anyone vandalising these posts in anyway.

On a positive note, we have completed marking up all of the Red trail, I wanted to include a bit of existing singletrack down past diamond back but ran out of time. But now if you follow the red markers, you do a nice short loop of th e woods.