Can you see it?

Yesterday was nicely refreshing, I got back to some work after chilling pretty hard for two days. I spent a bit of time on the computer and then followed up with a mountain bike ride and some diggin'.

Our home pump track in the park is in need of love, seeing as how I haven't really been able to pay attention to it, I started doing a bit of digging yesterday. It felt really good. I shaped on the lower berm a bit, it still needs loads more work to get the berm to feel consistent. It was originally two berms, with rollers for drainage, but the neighborhood folks couldn't really get it to work for them, so they made it one berm, but didn't make up for the two different radii. So, I worked with that some, and also started working out the upper area with the wallride. This never work. I don't really know why, but I aim to work through it in the next week or so. I think this little project will occupy my thoughts until NTD next weekend. I also need to build a few features tomorrow for the Mountain Sports Festival this weekend.

Drying out....

OUCH....My brain hurts.

This is the most physically and mentally exhausted I have ever been after a project. It is all in a good way, but over the last three weeks I lived life in the Red-line. Virginia and a bunch of great, super laid back land managers to Rapid City, South Dakota to participate in a Greek Tragedy...I think it is great the freeride trail is called the Phoenix, because it means the riders are used to things rising from the ashes, or FLOOD in this case.

The last two days in town were really exhausting from a social level too, we had nothing else to do because of the rain so it was Party Time. OUCH...

I am now back in North Carolina trying to do my best to recover and get the document for the folks out there lined up to give a certain level of continuity to the project. I hope to have finished photos to throw on here in about three weeks. I will be seeing these folks again in Park City and that will certainly be a HOOT!

It will still take a few days to recover from this one, but things are definitely good.

Rapid City Dirt Jump Build Day FINAL

AND THEN THE RAIN CAME...

Where to begin? I finished all the signage and was fully ready to install it when mother nature broke loose. Rapid City got over four inches of rain yesterday and needless to say with the DJ park in a flood plain they got flooded. Things held up remarkably well however. I am actually psyched I got to be on site for a big rain event like that. The levels were unbelievable. The entire site was flooded above grade and the water actually probably helped things to really solidify. Now the park will need to be closed for a week to settle, then next weekend hopefully folks can get all the finishing touches on everything and there will be a ribbon cutting on the 30th of July.

I can't wait to post fully finished photos. Here are some of the flood of '08.

Rapid City Dirt Jump Build Day 11 - 13

Yeah, things have been crazy, I will try and get ahead of the ball on this update. Things are almost finished. Jeff showed up on Monday and jumped right on it. Within 10 minutes of him being here we saw a rattler at the creek crossing into the jump park. Needless to say he is going home with a souvenir. We looked over the expert and pro line and he got his mind pretty well wrapped around the whole thing. Then, yesterday, it was GAME ON...we got the three main features in that line finished and they look great. The evening brought a sweet session with people riding all of the lines. Today, the boys are working in the pit while I am trying to get things wrapped up. The weather looks like it will be turning against us for the time being as well, but we will see if she holds. So, now I am off to do the signs and run a few errands for the fellas.

Rapid City Dirt Jump Build Day 10

Today was mostly a ride day. We did move a bit of stuff around in the intermediate set, and the hydro seed also got laid. For the next week things will be crazy as Jeff is in town and we need to finish the expert and pro sections.

Rapid City Dirt Jump Build Day 9

Things are coming along nicely. A great looking fence now surrounds the park and really helps to make it pop. The upper pump track was finished yesterday and it is now getting dialed in by the locals. They are beginning to understand pump track obsession. The local kids are killing it too. Check out the 360. Today is dialing in the intermediate line, working out things overall and beginning to push into the expert lines. What a great day.

Rapid City Dirt Jump Build Day 7 & 8

GAME ON!!!

The beginner line is done and the intermediate is on its way. The kids have already begun ripping the stuff that is finished and this weekend will probably see 100 folks at the site. Enjoy the photos.