Just finished putting down skips on the Red track to iron out a few problem sections…. Going for a cup of tea then to shovel, rake and whack everything into place…. Will get some before and after photos…
A fairly wet and windy day today @ Nevis Range saw a busy bike track team filling in many holes and water troughs in particular on sections between Avalanche and Tower 13. Further down the track close to the first fire road crossing was also given some attention to flatten some braking bumps and fill water damage.
Plans for tomorrow are to fill some more water damage up top and whacker plate any soft sections…. A lot of riders have been riding off track to avoid avalanche so some log edging will be put in place here and a sustainable chicken run built.
Well done to anyone riding the track today, it looked pretty wild…
Track Closures…
Gravel is being helicoptered to the Red Route sort a few rock sections and for the four tight corners up the top. Rocks and gravel are being flowen to the DH track to rebuild a few sections and to iron out some roughness and holes. Expect some photos of on going work over the next few weeks…
New feature coming soon for the DH track…. Details and photos to follow in the near future….
The downhill track packed down nicely with the rain and the water troughs that formed with the heavy rain on tuesday/wednesday have been filled in and smoothed over and lots of the braking bumps were fixed this morning so the track is looking awesome.
The red is roughening up a bit and we are getting the helicopter back to get materials up to the corners up top.
There have been a few injurys in the past week so get well soon to those people, and everyone else please try to stay on and have good times!
Liam and Calum
Check the new Nevis Range panorama. We’ve got the webcam up on the gable wall of the Snowgoose restaurant & bar and taking clever shots of the amazing views from the top station. We’re now using some clever French software, from a company called Trinum, which also powers many of the European ski resort panoramas. If you go to their website and look under Liste des webcams (top left) and scroll down to – International – you’ll find panoramas for the Lecht and Glenshee too. The software basically takes lots of images and then stitches them together to produce the Nevis Range panorama. We’re then able to designate locations where we want the camera to take zoomed pics, and we’ve chosen the best views, the starts of the bike tracks as well as some of the ski tows and runs. And in the winter, we’ll move the images so they take the best pictures possible of the snow conditions. So many thanks to everyone for making this possible … to Trinum in France, Hotscot our webdevelopers, Redcat our IT gurus, and the Nevis guys for actually putting the webcam up on the gable wall! Oh, and a special thanks to Google for helping us translate the French software into English :) Please let us know what you think, and either comment on this blog post, or email us at marketing@nevisrange.co.uk.
Both red and downhill tracks looking good, red has been busy since the opening, hearing lots of positive reviews! Some (welcome) rain this morning and afternoon will help to pack down the really dry and dusty corners. A successful NPS race at the weekend saw some fast riding on a bone-dry track. Good stuff.