Hafjell Bike Park Damaged in Flood

Jul 9, 2014
by aMillenarian  
Hajfell Damage 2014

Some of you may know already, but there has been some major damage to Hafjell recently, caused by heavy rains and flooding. The bottom half of the World Cup track has been severely damaged, with up to 2 meter deep ditches in sections which used to be fairly smooth and high speed. It's going to take a fair bit of work to repair the WC track in time for the World Championships, and the track almost certainly won't be the same as in years past.

Hajfell Damage 2014

The bike park will be closed until this Friday 11/07/2014 and it's believed that everything below the mid-station will be closed for longer.

Hajfell Damage 2014

The workers in the Bike Park have today been focused on saving buildings and lifts, once this work is done, the trails can begin to be repaired. Luckily there's no significant rain forecast for the rest of the week.

No news articles in English yet, but here are some Norwegian articles:
www.gd.no/sport/article7465475.ece
www.terrengsykkel.no/index.php?id=5340



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49 Comments
  • 247 0
 God obviously likes to ride gnar rather than flow.
  • 15 2
 this just made my day
  • 23 1
 Rock garden anyone?
  • 7 2
 I think its a bit overgrown
  • 42 2
 Seriously, it looks better now than it ever did. They should leave it and not anger the bike gods.
  • 3 2
 it looks like some one dumped draino all down the trail. looks like hafjell got a lotta work to do.
  • 12 1
 World champs track is set and ready to go!
  • 2 1
 que sera, sera
  • 1 2
 Ride it out as is ! hahaha nah......but dam, that really sucks, ma b this will make them change it up a bit, or gnar it up!?
  • 3 11
flag wizido (Jul 11, 2014 at 8:34) (Below Threshold)
 god ? Chucks Norris I say !
  • 1 0
 Looks like Thor got angry.
  • 67 1
 I see rock gardens and canyon gaps
  • 53 0
 Looks great to me, what trail damage?
  • 49 2
 Mother Nature is questioning the UCI Bike Park locations too!!
  • 14 0
 She's making sure they aren't all flat and smooth like pmb! Good girl!!
  • 38 1
 Now thats a reel DH track!
  • 16 0
 Hope they don't deicide to shut down the bike park now, they were considering it at the end of last season, that would bum me out for sure
  • 1 0
 They have already spend a lot of time digging and repaired the top part of the bikepark after the flood, so i don't think you'll have to worry about the bikepark closing this season. Smile
  • 13 1
 they should embrace what mother nature has done and turn the world cup track into a completely different animal. rock gardens and technical lines everywhere.
  • 7 0
 Things are looking more like normal already.
www.facebook.com/HafjellBikePark?hc_location=timeline
  • 8 1
 second picture still looks fun to ride haha. but wow that sucks.
  • 5 1
 Was going to post some crap about IMBA guidelines for building sustainable trails... but when the focus is on saving buildings and lifts, must have been biblical rain.
  • 2 0
 the Roller Coaster and Buldreløypa tracks (in the pics) are supposed to be smooth float tracks but they turned into rivers and looked like the hard, rock garden trails (like the "New School" track and "VM løypa")
Hafjell was only shut down for two days, thanks to all the volunteers Smile Most of the tracks are as good as new Smile Smile woho!
  • 2 0
 That gulley could make for an awesome track with a bit of dirt thrown on the rocks , would be good if they could divert future water from above keeping a section to be used in a trail.
  • 4 0
 In all fairness its opened up a great rock garden now. Could be a blessing is disguise for some serious tech challenges.
  • 5 1
 cool there are now some gnarly rock gardens
  • 4 0
 Obviously the bike gods want you to Ride the rut!
  • 4 0
 Picture 2...you got a god given rock garden now.Nice
  • 5 0
 Brake draggers......
  • 3 0
 god makes pretty good dh wc courses. don't repairt it, at least there will be an interesting race
  • 1 0
 Can't really tell but it looks like some of that trail goes right down fall line, so yeah, was going to happen eventually. Either way, sad to see damage like that on any trail.
  • 5 1
 Leave it! Race as is...
  • 2 0
 they can at least say the trails are tacky, albeit not for the reasons we normally use that word.
  • 2 0
 if you hadnt told me it was flood damage i would have thought it was just a normal dh track
  • 3 0
 this isn't damage - this is update)
  • 1 0
 Am i the only one who noticed the digger in the first picture is scooping water out of a stream, onto a flat section, which will just flow back into the stream?
  • 1 0
 Think they are digging a soak away
  • 1 0
 you wouldn't be able to dig deep enough if its that wet
  • 3 0
 Cry
  • 2 0
 Arent you going to be up there soon?
  • 6 0
 Yup, this weekend haha
  • 2 0
 Change of plans...
  • 17 0
 is open in time so all is good! Actually opened a day earlier today because of a lot of volunteer help, pretty awesome to see! If any of the volunteers are reading this you guys f*cking rock! Salute
  • 1 0
 Mother fucking awesome! Only two smallish runs still shut now
  • 1 0
 The world champs can ride down a stream if it rains like that when race comes to town
  • 1 0
 Thats how any track in the tropics looks like after 1 day of rain. Yeah, it sucks....
  • 1 0
 you just have a few more ROCK gardens... DROPPING IIIIIIIIIIIN !!!! yahoo!
  • 1 0
 Oh well. Never mind.
  • 1 2
 Freeride !!







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