Mountain Biking Trail Work

Project Overview

Over the past year, I've helped build Truck Trail and I'm currently working on Saddle Cut.

Timeline

• 2024 - Started doing trail days with Access4Bikes and began work on Truck Trail.
• 2025 - Finished the Truck Trail season and started Saddle Cut in November.
• 2026 - Worked on Cake Boss in the spring.

Trails Built

• Truck Trail
• Saddle Cut
• Cake Boss

Truck Trail

I worked on this trail almost every Friday for two hours from October through March of the 2024-2025 season, with several four-hour weekend workdays mixed in.

Truck Trail was built as a side trail to Solstice. On large group rides, riders who don't have the skill level for Solstice can take Truck Trail instead, since it ends at the same place. Truck Trail is also a great climbing trail because it brings riders to the top of 680, Cake Boss, Solstice, and Truck.

Truck Trail was originally meant to be an easy downhill trail. But because of heavy hiker use, a lot of the features had to be taken out, which turned it into a really good climbing route instead.

Saddle Cut

I went to Saddle Cut trail days in November and December of my 10th grade year.

Saddle Cut is a short trail that connects the end of Wagon Wheel to the beginning of B-17. It was built so riders could cut from Wagon Wheel to B-17 without having to drop down the rough fire road that used to connect them. The trail is narrow and flowy, and even though it's only a quarter mile, it's a fun way to skip the fire road.

Cake Boss

I worked on Cake Boss in the spring of my sophomore year.

Cake Boss was the original Truck Trail. It's been through a bunch of different forms and names, from Spine to Vertebrae. Even just this year, Cake Boss has taken a lot of shapes. At the beginning, it was a featureless, loose, slippery trail covered in leaves. Once a big hip jump got built at the end, more people started riding it during the rainy season, and all the turns became ruts. But after a few weeks of trail days, with help from the locals, it's turned into a fun, techy flow trail with big switchback berms and gap jumps.