{"id":6502,"date":"2016-03-27T20:19:38","date_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/?p=6502"},"modified":"2016-03-27T20:21:32","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T03:21:32","slug":"ken-burton-trail-restoration-day-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corbamtb.com\/news\/2016\/03\/27\/ken-burton-trail-restoration-day-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burton Trail Restoration – Day 14"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, March 19, 2016, was a perfect day to do trailwork. There was moisture in the ground from the week’s rain, temperatures were cool, and the crew were able to ride to and from the work site via the Gabrielino trail. A half-dozen or so volunteers were already on their way to the work site when this group photo was taken.<\/p>\n

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Some crew members were already on their way to the work site<\/p><\/div>\n

While several volunteers rode in via the Gabrielino, some opted to ride up to Brown Mountain and enjoy the fruits of their labor on the way down Ken Burton trail to the work site. It was the first time we had been able to ride all the way down to the 16th switchback without interruption.\u00a0The volunteers who rode down Ken Burton trail\u00a0were all in agreement that the efforts\u00a0of the group over the previous five months had been well-worth the experience.<\/p>\n

We were fortunate enough to have several SoCal High school league student-athletes and coaches join us for the day, along with members of the IMTBTrails.com<\/a> mountain bike forum out of Santa Clarita.<\/p>\n

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This was a heavily damaged section<\/p><\/div>\n

With the major brush work completed, the crew split into groups, concentrated on re-cutting the bench along a heavily damaged section of the trail, restoring outslope, and removing remaining roots and stubs from the tread.<\/p>\n

Another crew worked diligently to rebuild the 16th switchback, using rock extracted from the tread to build an outside retaining wall on top of the old wire basket retaining structure\u00a0that had failed. \u00a0By day’s end, the switchback was completely rebuilt. We were fortunate to have the expert assistance of Hans from Bellfree Contractors<\/a> on this major effort.<\/p>\n

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Rebuilding Switchback 16<\/p><\/div>\n

By day’s end the crew had completed tread work almost all the way down to the 17th switchback, restoring one of the more heavily damaged sections of the trail so far.<\/p>\n

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