Closed Trail
When QPWS contracted Gillian Duncan to map and assess the Nerang trail system, a lot of us worried we may see some of our favourite trails closed.
Fact is that QPWS have only asked us to close 4 trails (five, if you include Jack's track, which had already been closed and inspected by QPWS Rangers). They have also not asked us to close any trail before we build an alternate bypass trail.
In the last 2 months Downhill Trail was closed. For locals, that is the old, falline link from the bottom of Pete's down to the bridge above Five Ways, or more recently, leading to the illegal shortcut onto Casuarina Grove. Today we watched riders crashing down and walking up the closed Downhill trail while we worked on Pete's trail.
This is a closed trail
It's not fun to ride a closed trail, because it's covered in shit put there to make this obvious! OK, sometimes there may be no other way to get where you are going, but in this case, dream on - there's a brand new trail from Casuarina to Pete's. You can't miss it. If you are on Casuarina it is the only intersection that looks like a real trail joins there and if you are going down from Pete's, you have to step over and through the trail closure as you pass the new trail.
Have you tried it? It is actually a good trail, not like Downhill which died years ago due to poor routing and minimal effort in construction.
Whilst I don't expect to get any sense out of inconsiderate jerks who could care less that QPWS look badly on this behaviour, we all know that Rotorburners, being salt of the earth, new age riders, will respect dog's ball's obvious closure of trails and use the better option in front of their eyes in search of the better ride.
Thank you