We just happened to have our major trailwork day, including machine work, on the same day as the Theodore Wirth Cup (a Cyclocross race). But after some negotiations with Paul Schoening (race director) about the course layout on Friday, all was good to go. A huge thanks to Paul for working with MOCA on coordinating the two events at the same location. It's nice to know that we have a tightly knit and awesome bicycle community here in Minneapolis.
A huge Thanks goes out to Tim Wegner for his time behind the Ditch Witch. The guy has some serious skill with that machine. He also has a ton of patience as we asked him to take the whole causeway apart and reassemble it so we could get it just right. He shook his head at us a couple of times, but hung in there. In the end, we got the causeway just right. This made for some great celebrating afterwards. We knew we could do it, it was just a matter of time and patience by all to get it done the way we wanted it. Puzzling rocks together is never an easy task and the larger the rocks, the tougher it is to get them together.
The crew hard at work!
Completion of project, what an awesome job by all! Thanks to Tom, Chuck, Jake, and mara for all the hard work you put into this trail feature!
Jake giving it a test ride. He said it was like riding on the sidewalk. Okay, he didn't really say that, but you could tell he was thinking it.
The Eagle Scouts got their 2 projects done. Thanks for coming out and giving us a hand with out trail!
In the end, it was a great day for MOCA. We plan to have some future, less chaotic, Sunday sessions. If we get enough good weather this fall, we might just get lucky and get this 1/2 of Section 6 completed and open for riding. We still have a lot of work to do though, so it's possible it might not get done until early spring or summer of next year.
