Dirt Jumps at Burchfield

[Josethegrey]

I have a lot of experience building and designing jumps and stunts. Let me know if help is needed for plans, layouts, or w/e. I live about 3 min from the park. I'm usually always around.

[pfox90]

I was wondering when you would post up jose

[Josethegrey]

Yeah, I haven't been on the forums in a while. Just thought I'd check em out yesterday and see what was going on.

[pfox90]

has there been any progress?

[mjpo]

Alan, what's up? Will you get a chance to work on this during the fall?

[reidabel]

So where is the dirt at for this? If they've dumped it already, it's not easy to see - I've played lots of disc golf and ridden the trails and not noticed any piles of dirt anywhere ...

[mjpo]

So where is the dirt at for this? If they've dumped it already, it's not easy to see - I've played lots of disc golf and ridden the trails and not noticed any piles of dirt anywhere ...

There is a tee-box that is near a row of pine trees. This row of trees is just south of the Tree line that has "Enter Sandman". The dirt is between this treeline and the pine trees.

[SpecialJ]

I wanna get in on making this dirt jump thing happen, i rode the mountain bike trails first time or any trails first time ever last weekend at burchfield.. had a pretty good time. Bmx was it for me before this year.. anyway whats the status? if we got dirt, i got a shovel. is there a loader around to atleast plop some piles where they need to go so we can shape some up?

[Paul_D]

Allegedly there is 2 locations for dirt jumps at Burchfield. The first as described by Reid above. The second is a little trickier. If you look at the Crayola map of Burchfield, all the way to the south (left of map) near McNamara between the word "Columbia" and "new" is a section in the woods that has piles of earth for dirt jumps. They are pretty overgrown and look like they have been sitting there for a few years untouched. I only know about this because Reid showed me.

Check with mjpo for official details.

[SpecialJ]

i would like to go out there today, lets build one jump or just go ride...

[jonw9]

Allegedly there is 2 locations for dirt jumps at Burchfield. The first as described by Reid above. The second is a little trickier. If you look at the Crayola map of Burchfield, all the way to the south (left of map) near McNamara between the word "Columbia" and "new" is a section in the woods that has piles of earth for dirt jumps. They are pretty overgrown and look like they have been sitting there for a few years untouched. I only know about this because Reid showed me.

Check with mjpo for official details.

Jose was building those jumps by hand. However, he was told there would be a Bobcat come in and do some of the heavy work. I don't think that has ever happened, and things just got left to the side.

[SpecialJ]

anyone game to go shovel?

[rvd]

Allegedly there is 2 locations for dirt jumps at Burchfield. The first as described by Reid above. The second is a little trickier. If you look at the Crayola map of Burchfield, all the way to the south (left of map) near McNamara between the word "Columbia" and "new" is a section in the woods that has piles of earth for dirt jumps. They are pretty overgrown and look like they have been sitting there for a few years untouched. I only know about this because Reid showed me.

Check with mjpo for official details.

Jose was building those jumps by hand. However, he was told there would be a Bobcat come in and do some of the heavy work. I don't think that has ever happened, and things just got left to the side.

Is a bobcat really needed? I happened upon these mounds yesterday, and although overgrown and a bit eroded, they seem almost ready to ride as is. There is no trail cut in, so that would be the first thing to fix. Flatten the platforms / smooth out the ramps and you're good?

You can easily find these mounds by walking the single track east and north from the mcNamara parking lot; they will be on your right hand side in the woods a bit before the trail ends in the water. You will likely see the starting 'platform' first; it is a natural (trees on it) hill maybe 8-10 feet high that the current trail goes right by.

Side topic 1: Jeff, why is our xc single track not using this hill? It is large enough for a trail (maybe even a switchback ) and the starting 'platform' for the jumps.

Side topic 2: if this water is the spot where the Eagle scout is going to build a bridge, he has his work cut out for him; there are two pretty wide stretches.

[reidabel]

I agree, we definitely could route the trail through these mounds already, I think with a couple of hours of work they could be rollable. Any jumps would take longer to build, but we could have a fun rollable section happening quite quickly. Oh, and we'd have to clear trail into and then out of them to connect with the current trail, but I don't think that would be more than another couple of hours of work either. I'm not going to volunteer for this, though, given that I want to focus my efforts on my current stunt. I'm just sayin

[jonw9]

I agree, we definitely could route the trail through these mounds already, I think with a couple of hours of work they could be rollable. Any jumps would take longer to build, but we could have a fun rollable section happening quite quickly. Oh, and we'd have to clear trail into and then out of them to connect with the current trail, but I don't think that would be more than another couple of hours of work either. I'm not going to volunteer for this, though, given that I want to focus my efforts on my current stunt. I'm just sayin

I agree with this completely. I too do not wish to do any work on it, but I don't think it would take others very much time to complete. I wonder what they are waiting for?!?