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Knapsack Build Day, 23 November 2019
Synergy Trails, Blue Mountains City Council and Blue Mountains Off Road Cyclists (BMORC) will be holding a series of track work days over the next few months.
Details here http://bmorc.com/node/63204
Knapsack Fire
A bushfire occurred early yesterday afternoon at Knapsack Reserve, approximately 8ha. All people; riders and pedestrians need to stay out of the burnt areas at Knapsack Reserve.
None of the burnt bushland areas have been assessed in regard to risk management issues; specifically burnt trees and burnt tree limbs - so do not enter any of the burned areas - for your own sake.
Some track closures have been put in place and are signposted. Burnt areas need to be left alone and not traversed. The DH remains open. No XC has been impacted.
Knapsack Build Day 10th February 2018
Build Day this saturday. Synergy working on DH and if we get the numbers we can get some XC work done. Work from 8am till 2pm and there is the possibility of a BBQ if we get the numbers.
Details here http://bmorc.com/node/56227
Postponed - Knapsack Build Day 2nd December 8am
Note that this build day has been postponed till January 13th 2018.
This is primarily due to predicted bad weather and difficulties for Synergy to be present.
Details on the rescheduled date to posted as they are organised.
Apologies to all who were ready to come along.
Knapsack Build Day 2nd December 8am
Build day this Saturday 8am. Meet at Lovers Walk.
I am still waiting on a reply of the plan of works from BMCC. If I find out I will post up the info.
Further info....
Cancelled 26th August Build Day
Just a heads up for anyone who was planning going to the build day this Saturday the 26th August that it has been cancelled, or postponed.
We called for this because a lot of us were unable to make it from BMORC and also BMCC didn't have anything specific organised so it was felt it would be an unproductive exercise considering the small budget we have allocated.
We will try to make sure the next build day has more operations planned ahead.
Eastern Escarpment Public Workshop
The preliminary recommendations are currently available to view and comment on in the Have Your Say section of the BMCC web site which can be found at the following link:
https://www.bluemountainshaveyoursay.com.au/seem...
Council is in the process of finalising the detailed landscape design work associated with the Master Plan and would like offer active recreation users the opportunity to review and comment on this design work prior to finalising the Draft Master Plan for public exhibition. To facilitate this, a workshop has been scheduled as follows:
Temporay Closure of Knapsack DH Trail
A message from BMCC
"From the 21st June 2017 the Knapsack DH bike trail will be temporarily closed for construction and maintenance works.
Helicopter operations are planned to occur on that day, delivering bags of stone directly onto the downhill track. This means that there will be no physical through access for bikes at all.
Works are anticipated to commence late June and take 8 weeks to complete.
Lots of Planting and Refinement!
Busy day planting over 100 plants in the area we previously cleared below the soccer fields of weeds. Its growing back with natives and this will give it some help. Good seeing Ike a second generation MTBer coming along and helping out too.
We also worked on some trail refinements to do with improved drainage and flow elsewhere. Gus and Tim realigned some trail for improved flow, air possibilities and drainage. We fixed a muddy section of existing trail below the soccer fields and started building a rock berm.
We need wheel barrows for the build day tomorrow!
If anyone has a wheel barrow please bring it tomorrow to the build day as we will need it for moving rock into place.