Mountain Bike trails are in ‘ideal’ condition across the region

Staff report

The relatively dry spring and early summer has meant trails across the region are in great shape — very few washouts, debris, or “bones” (rocks and roots exposed after washout) are evident anywhere — and riders are rejoicing! 

“Trails are in great shape!” riders echo in the reports from Woodstock, to Killington, to Rutland and over to Slate Valley. 

Despite all trail conditions at Pine Hill Park in Rutland being listed as “ideal” on Trailforks, Pine Hill Park continues to improve its network of 18 miles of single-track multi-use trail spread over 325 acres.

On Monday, July 1, the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps  (VYCC) helped remove large rocks from the trails and last week well-known professional trail builder, KSA Built, finished buffing up some popular routes. 

“Thank you @pinehillpartnership for a great time buffing up and creating some great trails to ride,” wrote KSA BUILT on Facebook, June 29. “Especially being a redo of Rosey’s rollover which I put together by hand during the first month of Covid. To be able to come back and build out this trail properly was so exciting. And,  fyi if you haven’t ridden PHP in a bit you should check it out and see all the work we’ve done the past couple years!”

Pine Hill Park also debuted a new rock featured (pictured right) and recently conducted a survey to name it. The winning choice was “Nugget” submitted by Erika, PHP announced July 1. While the choices submitted via the survey were not published, Facebook users posted suggestions in comments under the photo. Other suggestions included: Rock of Gibraltar, Moby, Rock Slide, Fur-Roll, Rock!, Breach, Rock n’ Roll, Whale Back, Roller Molar, Wisdom Tooth and Glacier.