Acton Trail (AT) Ride/Work Day 2/20 Part Dos

I finally have a free Saturday so I'm heading up to Acton Trail for some more brush clearing with my mini-beast. It's been over a month since I've been up there but BikeMonster and his crew of trail elves have been up there twice during that time so I'm anxious to see how much more trail those guys have made!

I'll leave from the mine road at about 8:00 a.m. but no hiking this time! I bought a used B.O.B. trailer a couple weeks ago! After 2 BOB qr's both came up short for my old Trek ex9 (they don't make one long enough) I put in an order for a 12mm robert axle project qr for my new Intense that will hopefully arrive on time and work! If not, the stock qr that came with the trailer fits my wife's bike so I'll ride that with my knees in my chin if necessary!

I would love to have as many of you as willing to come join the fun! Just like last time, you can start on Aliso Cyn or at the ball park for a good ride and work the trail as long as you wish. AT does not have a pancake breakfast or free lunch for it's trail workers. The only people who work it are a few from AV, SCV, SFV and BikeMonster who comes all the way from Thousand Oaks! More people involved would greatly accelerate the pace to bring this trail back from the dead and stretch it to the top! If you've ridden this trail you know it's potential and unique character so if you feel inspired to get a great ride and create some more trail, come on out this Saturday!

 

I'm planing on being there.

 

My brush cutter will cut that poo-dog down to size! Looks like a little rain is coming Wed. and Thurs. so we'll have hero dirt to ride and work on! Who else is in? There will be 3 McCleods for the dirt, loppers for what the cutter misses and whatever tools you can bring. We'll need people to clear cut brush off the trail too so you don't even need a tool to help out!

 

I can't wait till till the offers start pouring in! This is going to be great!

 

Sarcasm H^B?

 

Pretty much, yah.

 

Where exactly is this?

 

Acton is in north L.A. county between Santa Clarita and Palmdale along the 14 fwy. I think higher tech people than me have pinned it in other threads for the exact location. The trail is about 10.2 miles currently and we hope to make it about 10.4 on Saturday!

 

It's not sarcasm if a bunch of people show up!

 

Gotcha Thanks! I won't make it this time but I hope when i can get out there it can be a trail work day too.

Thanks for the trail work,
Rich

 

I will try to be there. Will park on Aliso by dumpster and ride up.

 

None of us really start to early so I'll most likely ride up with you.

 

That would be great! I haven't seen you since Camp Nelson!

 

What time are you guys planning on riding up?

 

10 am Rod

 

I will get to the Aliso parking spot around 8:00. Need to be back pretty early for family stuff. Will be really good to see you guys again!

 

You'll probably catch up to me before I unload the bike from my truck!

 

Just so you know Dave you and Greg will be the first ones there, and Greg will be hauling his trailer, so it will be the two of you for a couple of hours, and I'm not sure where the tools have been stashed. Greg are you bringin your McCloud?

 

Yep! It's already strapped onto the trailer!

 

Then maybe we can get a little work done on the way up were it really really needs it?

 

I'm having some family issues but I will still try to get there at 8 and help for couple hrs if I can

 

I guess I could stop at the area I think you mean, unstrap it and leave it on the trail for ya but then you'd have to bring it up to the end with you on your bike! Or you could hike down with it at some point during the day and hike it back up. You see the McCloud kind of sits on top of everything else to keep it from bouncing so option 2 would be better. We'll see how the day goes!

 

Never mind, I was thinking of getting another one at some point for middle work. It's going to the top and I can hardly believe it!

 

I think you are in for a surprise at how far up it goes.