Brian Head, Utah: Improving High Altitude Trails

This weekend's volunteers worked on armoring a creek crossing and installing a log crossing option across the creek. The armoring will keep soil from transporting into the water, and the log crossing will offer the more technical riders a challenging feature as well as keep those riders out of the water.
The group also worked on controlling erosion on Dark Hollow Trail by installing rolling grade dips and knicks. Here the McClouds display the 15% outslope on the knick and the 5% outslope on the original trail tread.
A group ride after doing trailwork always helps the group celebrate the sweet local trails. This picture shows the great views that the Bunker Trail offers.
Nat tests his riding skills over a double log creek crossing.

The Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew works on trails two miles high.

Nat and Rachael Lopes, Subaru/IMBA Trail Care Crew, worked with the Brian Head Department of Recreation, the U.S. Forest Service and the Brian Head Bike Park on their trails this past August. Brian Head is a summer trails destination for mountain bikers from nearby Cedar City as well as throughout the west with a diverse trail system that includes many downhill specific trails.

The Crew helped Brian Head identify problem spots on the trails where erosion was scarring the landscape, widening the singletrack trails and potentially creating negative impacts to the surrounding environment. The Crew also targeted points along existing trails where technical features could be added to bring challenge to the trails for the more advanced riders.

After an IMBA Trailbuilding School, volunteers from the Color Country Bike Club, bike park employees and the Forest Service Trails and Recreation specialist worked on the Dark Hollow Trail. The group stone armored a water crossing and added an advanced log-over across the crossing. The group also maintained the existing trail by adding rolling grade dips and knicks. Overall the volunteers donated more than 50 hours of their time to the local trails.

Special thanks are given to the Cedar Breaks Lodge for putting the Lopes' up for the weekend in their great rooms, and to the Brian Head Bike Park for shuttling the group to and from the trail each day for the trailwork and fun rides.