Winter Tarp Experiment a Success

NBL Line progress is showing. Dave and crew have the lip out of the berm roughed to height and it just needs squared up. It looks a ton better this year and is going to be fun. Some more dead trees to cut down and de-stump before the landing and next lip can be worked on.





Before picture of the Main Line 1st lip and landing. The guys chopped them up Thursday night to start the overhaul of them.

After picture of the Main Line 1st lip. Same height, just a little mellower. Squared up to look proper and should ride in nicely. This lip has been neglected for years and finally got the attention it deserves. I didn't get a good picture of the landing, but it was stacked up and squared off in the back to form a dank pad and the landing was stretched out. The gap looks a couple of feet shorter, but should not effect the next lips performance.

Here is the 1st lip and landing in Geronimo. Not much going on here besides it looks so much better then last year. We never got the flat before the 2nd lip and the 2nd lip to dry up enough last year to send it properly. It looks ready to go right now.

View from the roll-in direction of Geronimo. I'm glad to see the high corner of the 1st landing did not turn to mud and collapse over winter. We spent many weeks last year getting it to this point and it is not easy stacking dirt a couple of feet over your head.

What an amazing day Friday was to be in the woods. Low 80's for temps and sunny. No shirts required. If that does not get you pumped for trails after the long cold winter that just happened then there is something wrong with you. We are hoping for and expecting a good turn out Saturday to do some damage on the re-building that needs done.

I almost forgot to mention the Winter Tarp Experiment. Our goal was to cover lips that rebuilt last year and were dialed to see what would happen over winter. From what I witnessed last night the lips are as dailed and as fast as they were in the Fall. The tarping of the landings helped a lot also. Plans are to chop the landings top 2 inches of surface, water a little, rake smooth and butter up. I'm estimating it saved us at least 3 to 4 weeks of labor and riding in time. Plans for a jam around the 1st day of summer, to avoid the bottle necks with PA fall jam season definitely seems possible. Experiment was a success.