Vancouver, British Columbia
euan-forrester: Evidence-of-Trail-Fairies
in: Digging/Building
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Good Sir Martin
@englishman @mtbmudhoney
Bench-cut trail (trail cut into the side of a hill) was among the easiest to dig because it was its own source of “gold”. Gold is a sand-like dirt found at varying depths under the top layer of soil throughout the forest. It’s used as the final layer of the trail because it dries hard and thus resists erosion from feet, bike tires, and water. The majority of the time, gold had to be found off the trail in the forest and hauled over by hand.