South Hill construction active again at Tranquility

Just wanted to give everyone a heads up on Tranq. The city is active on the south hill again and have started removing some of the dirt piles we are using. The first dirt pile section is gone with a 10 ft drop off in it's place. I put up some flags to steer people away from the area but i think we will wait on cutting anything in till we know the plan for the area.

If the trucks/earth movers are working in the area, please give them plenty of space. Also, please be careful on the south hill descent. What was there one lap, might not be the next. If you enjoyed the dirt pile sections this summer, you might want to hit them soon. They may not be there next week.

Tranquility Trail Crew

Loading the BOB

Dale and Paul loaded up the BOB for trail work at Lake Manawa.

much accomplished tuesday at manawa

16.5 hrs across a handfull of workers accomplished a lot. Dale pulled two eaters, chainsaw, 3 loppers, gas and oil back to Tony's with mary and bob. Dave pasted directional stickers, Tom and Paul ran the weedeaters, Dale ran the saw on four down/low trees, Dickey was pulling limbs and lopping. Very humid and we worked too late to ride a lap but things looked good over what we did ride.

Tranquility is race ready!

Thank you to all that came out to the TTD to get Tranq ready for the race this weekend. The trail is in excellent shape due to your efforts. All together, we had 12 people out working the trail Tues night. A special thanks to Dave, Chris and Zoe for bringing their mantis out to work the bumps out of the re-route/bypass areas. Also thanks to Marc for big hours out mowing the south hill area solo.

I hope we can get a big turnout for Manawa trail days. Dickey is always helping at the other trail days and we owe him a few. Gather your troops and let's get Manawa whipped into shape!

Lake Manawa Trail Days

The scheduled August trail work is being extended to 2 evenings. We need good turnouts. Both evenings, meet 6pm in parking lot (congregate at the red pick-up or mower).

Planned work: Monday, Aug 10th-

Mow the trail
Trim the trail
Cut and remove any trees in the way
Lop branches
Install new stickers on markers
(Need 1 person to stay until the mower is finished to help return the mower).

Tuesday, Aug 11th-
Complete installation of new stickers on markers
Trim rest of the trail
More lopping
Any other tree cutting
Repair log crossing(s)
Rework habitually wet/muddy area

What to bring:
weed wackers
loppers
gloves
insect spray
long pants

THOR will provide cold drinks. Lots of works could be done. Tell your friends; help maintain the train.

Please RSVP in the comments for this posting.

Branched Oak Update

From one of the Trail Leaders,

Area 7 trail continues to grow and the upcoming race should be a 4.5 mile loop. Some of the new sections could use some riding to smooth things out. dont be afraid to ride after some rain, it dries really well and the rain will help smooth things out.

There is a tree down that we have to do something with (anyone good at making a real mellow log stack(it needs to be easy per park manager).

We have been having some trail gremlins tearing down tape and putting our brush piles across the trails.

Please be careful as some of the 4 legged users do not want to follow the directional flow.

Authors comment: WE DONE GUYS!!! 1.5 miles of trail with a very small work force is magnificent. The newer sections people aren't real pleased with right now will be pleased next year once the things groove in....it takes riding and racing. Keep up the great work!

successful trailwork at L&C

Josh came out early at 4:30 and weedwacked the needed areas. Seems someone(s) have been doing some trailwork down there previously so it wasn't in really bad shape. The rest of us took loppers, shears, a shovel, and mclintock and brushed out the trail corridor - removing the bunji sticks on the Neverest reroute, new growth and a lot of suspended dead limbs were also removed.

Had several new faces and we really appreciate their participation in maintaining a trail they ride. Several are THOR members and several are not. Thanks for giving your time and passion Russell, Tyler, Nick, Brett, Joel, Steve, Dale, and Josh! About 17 work hours were put in.