BKB Repairs.

Following the recent damage caused by unsanctioned trail building on the new section of BKB, Hurtwood and Redlands Trail volunteers spent a morning reparing the damage and doing some other trail maintenance.

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Unsanctioned Building On Holmbury Hill.

Over the last couple of years many MTB riders local to Holmbury/Peaslake have been working very hard to paint us riders in a good light to the Hurtwood control. This culminated in the Hurtwood control taking a very open minded view of us and allowing sanctioned trailbuilding/maintenance.

The most high profile and obvious advantage of this is that funding was obtained to rebuild the bottom section of the trail known as BarryKnowsBest.

Back in the autumn approx 500 metres of fresh trail was built by a trailbuilding contractor. This has been mainly greeted as a very good thing, and is ridden by A LOT of riders, and even the local residents are in favour of the ‘management’ of a few MTB trails.

This weekend someone decided to build two large jumps on this new section of trail. Whoever it was has dug a VERY large pit, and buried quite a few logs on the fastest part of the trail after a bermed corner. A local resident witnessed the jump/s being built and is absolutely fuming about MTB riders wielding spades and pick axes in the forest in an unsanctioned way.

The jumps have been removed and a build day will have to arranged to ‘tidy-up’ the aftermath.

This is an incredibly selfish act from certain individuals showing no consideration for other trail users on the busiest trail in the Surrey hills. It has also damaged the new section of  trail that as mentioned before has been funded with the help of the Surrey hills AONB.

If you know who did this please ask them to not do it again.

More Logging On Holmbury Hill.

A forestry programme of tree thinning and felling will be taking place on Holmbury hill throughout 2010. As some of you may have seen (or unexpectedly run into the logging around Resevior dogs) already.

Some of the existing trails on Holmbury will be affected including BKB(see map below). This work is necessary(as it a working forest) and we would ask you to please heed any warning notices of forestry operations.

More information can be found on the Hurtwood Rangers site.