CORBA Mountain Biking Photos. Click on an image to see it full size.
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Today's trailwork was a joint effort between CORBA...
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... and the Calabasas Day Hikers Meetup group.
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...the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council trail crew, and California State Parks...
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Tools are laid out ready to go
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These are McLeods
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Loppers and hedge trimmers. The loppers got a lot of use; the hedge trimmers, not so much
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CORBA trail crew leader Steve explains the work for the day and goes over the safe use of the tools.
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Grabbing a pair of gloves
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We start to work right at the trail head
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It's been some time since the brush has been cut back on this trail, and it shows!
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Only a couple of dozen feet in, the trail splits. We'll block off the upper one (on the right) and open up the one of the left to make it more obvious.
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Just as we start to work, a rider comes down the trail we are about to block off
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This is what the trail looked like at the end of the day, piled high with brush cuttings to block it off. The other end looked the same.
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This section a couple hundred feet from the bottom is really bad. The trail is to the right but people go to the left to avoid the rut. It's very steep, loose and slippery.
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Here's the view from the top
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The plan is to break down the berm on the outside (right side in this photo) and fill in the rut. This will make the trail flat and allow the water to run off the outside, rather than straight down the trail.
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Getting started at the top
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Progress, progress...
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After a two or three hours, it's looking really nice!
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We build a drainage to keep the water from running down onto the trail below
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The bottom of the section where we filled in the rut
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