Charlottesville Area Mountain Bike Club
Trail Work

CAMBC is involved with performing trail work at a number of regional venues. Areas we help maintain include Walnut Creek Park, Observatory Hill, Sherando/Big Levels and various other spots in the George Washington National Forest.

When attending any work day, CAMBC recommends you wear long pants, full shoes, eye protection and work gloves. Bringing any hand saws, chainsaws, clippers, or other tools to use would also be helpful. Please also bring food and water for yourself to stay happy and hydrated.

And always remember, trail work is FUN!

Reporting Needed Trailwork

To facilitate reporting of areas of trails that need work (downed logs, wasp/bee nests, etc., CAMBC has marked up copies of O-Hill and Walnut Creek Park trail maps. Please use the labels corresponding to the section of trail that needs work on the marked up versions of the trail maps to facilitate communication with trailwork crews: Please report trail conditions and needed trailwork to the CAMBC Forum under Trail Conditions or Trailwork, respectively.

Upcoming Work Days

We tentatively schedule trail work at Walnut Creek for the first Saturday of each month at 10am in the fishing parking lot, but these work days are frequently rescheduled so stay tuned to the CAMBC Forum (check in Trailwork forum subtopic) and this web page for updates.

DateEventLocationDescription
2008/05/17 CAMBC Walnut Creek workday 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Walnut Creek Park Monthly workday. Meet at UPPER lot (beach/pavilion parking lot) at 10 a.m.
2008/06/07 National Trails Day Nationwide - local details TBD Watch for updated local National Trails Day event info


Trail Work Performed - 2008

Date Location # People Hours Total Hours Work Performed
2008/01/06 Walnut Creek Park 1 3.5 3.5 Leafblowing
2008/01/12 Walnut Creek Park 7 3.0 21.0 Clearing blowdowns, deberming, rerouting eroded trail.
2008/01/19 McIntire Park 20 3.0 60.0 Started building the beginning of freeride style trail with UVA Mountain Bike Club. 2 log rides, 1 tabletop jump, plus some bermed turns.
2008/01/23 McIntire Park 1 2.0 2.0 Worked on jumps.
2008/01/26 McIntire Park 1 4.0 4.0 Worked on log ride and jumps.
2008/01/30 McIntire Park 1 2.0 2.0 Worked on jumps.
2008/02/03 McIntire Park 1 3.0 3.0 Worked on log ride.
2008/02/05 McIntire Park 1 2.0 2.0 Worked on log ride.
2008/02/09 McIntire Park 1 4.0 4.0 Worked on jumps.
2008/02/09 Walnut Creek Park 12 2.5 30.0 Building trail and in-sloped turn
2008/02/14 McIntire Park 1 2.0 2.0 Raking and worked on jumps.
2008/02/15 McIntire Park 2 3.0 6.0 Clearing the trail, working on the big jump, extended the berm after the jump, collected/delivered wood, cleared leaves for possible trail extensions.
2008/02/17 McIntire Park 2 3.0 6.0 Clearing the trail, working on the big jump, extended the berm after the jump, collected/delivered wood, cleared leaves for possible trail extensions.
2008/02/23 McIntire Park 1 2.0 2.0 Continued berm work.
2008/03/01 McIntire Park 1 3.0 3.0 Continued work on freeride trail section: berms, jumps
2008/03/02 Walnut Creek Park 16 3.0 48.0 Part 1 of dam loop reroute with Ditch Witch and manual finishing/old trail reclamation
2008/03/02 Walnut Creek Park 2 3.3 6.6 Walked & cleaned all the trails except red loop of impassable fallen trees.
2008/04/05 Walnut Creek Park 29 3.0 87.0 Dam loop reroute and old trail reclamation. Connector trail rebenching.
2008/04/29 Walnut Creek Park 11 2.0 22.0 Building grade dips and clearning drainages.
2008/05/06 Walnut Creek Park 8 2.0 16.0 Building grade dips and clearning drainages.
Total 330.1

Past Workdays

DateEventLocationDescription
--No trailwork events currently on past events calendar----


Here are links to our trailwork totals from 2007, 2006, 2005,2004, 2003, and years past.