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What we do:

The Adelaide Mountain Bike Club Trail Care Group maintains the cross country mountain bike trails around Adelaide, spending most of it's time in Cudlee Creek forest (Fox Creek). The group works with support from ForestrySA to repair eroded single-track, address safety issues, fix technical trail features such as log jumps, re-route trails and build small single-track extensions. The group also participates in activities such as tree planting days and weeding activities to ensure the long term future of the park. We meet roughly six times a year, and the working bees will generally be from 9am to 1pm.  Everyone is welcome to participate in the trail care group. 

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Working Bee Info...

Working Bee Meeting Point: Croft Rd car park, Fox Creek

Working Bee Dates for 2010:

21 March
25 April
16 May
20 June
25 July
22 August
19 September
10 October
14 November

Note that working bees will be cancelled on total fire ban days.  Check fire ban information here.

Previous Work Days

2010 Dates:

25 April - Fabulous day for it!! or at least 7 of us agree. Misty Mushrooms is much smoother now and well on its way to being finished.  We also did some work on the new trail that was marked out in march, and cleared the trail corridor on dynamic tension from over-growing trees, shrubs, and blackberries. -

2009 Dates: 19 April, 14 June, 12 July, 16 August, 20 September

2008 Dates:
Sunday 17 August met at the Croft Road Carpark at 9am.  Depending on how many make it out, we’ll be doing some basic trail maintenance to get rid of some of the water that’s staying on the track, then we’ll start looking at another linking section to avoid one of the ‘problem exits’.

 Sunday 15 June Moving away from Fox Creek this month, doing some tree planting around Fromm's Farm, near Cromer.  A couple of us got out and enjoyed the chance to put some effort into restoring some of the forestry areas we enjoy spending so much time in!  Despite being followed for a lot of the morning by an overly inquisitive emu, the brisk morning was perfect for putting in the fifty or so various native plants.  With any luck in a few years time there’ll be some nice habitat for some other birds as well.  

20 April 2008With a good group of about ten of us out there, we were able to finish off the section we'd cut in back in February (which seems to have been getting some traffic already!), and do a bit of grooming on the bench we'd put in the first half.We also managed to put the engineering skills of Dennis to good use, and got a sump and drain installed in the Knoll track section, which should work well to relieve it from the pools of mud that were forming there after heavy rains.Bicycle SA were also out there with a GreenCorps Team, doing some great work tidying up old sections and cutting in some new sections - check out some of the new trail they've built (most likely to be known as 'Tin Can') out to the north of Ten Saws. 

16 February 2008Our plan for this day was to put in a new singletrack detour to remove the pressure from the eroded exit to the firetrack in the ‘fence-line block’ of the pine forest.  People were obviously keen to work off the new year slump, with sixteen (that’s 16!) people out to get this new section of track cut in.  A few of us had marked out a possible line a few days earlier, gently climbing the contour of the block, with two new alternate exits.  There’s some old saying that seems appropriate, something about many hands powering up HIDs (or some such), but whatever it is, we were able to get the corridor for the entire 300 odd metres cleared up within the first hour.  This mainly involved getting angry at trees, swinging axe-mattocks a low lying limbs, and scraping rotten pine logs off the intended path.   Surprised at how quickly we’d been able to get that sorted, we then went on to install the three bridges over the water channels in the steeper sections.  These took a fair bit of head scratching, but they should now stand the test of time.  And bikes. Finally, we began to cut the bench into the trail, doing a rough cut across the entire first half, and starting on the second.   We’ll get back up there to put the finishing touches on it soon (including some fun little pump rollers leading to the ‘third’ exit).  

17 November 2007Six of us sought to escape the heat in the cool pine forests of Cudlee Creek.  After grabbing a few building materials, we went out to the first forest section of the XC race loop, and made our way to the two right-hand descents that were the target area for the day.  Both descents were starting to show signs of erosion, caused mainly by uncontrolled braking coupled with rains throughout the year.  Though neither was too bad yet, there was potential for them to get much worse with time.To fix up the first corner, we cut in about 20m of new singletrack to detour past the problem section.  The new singletrack provides an option that feeds across the contour of the slope to the bottom of the eroding section with a gentle descent.  We’ve left the original line open for those that can get down the original slope without skidding.