More New Skinnies at the Beginner Area

Another fun morning making new skinnies on Crazy Crab Walk at the beginner area. Our new sleeper construction leads on from last week’s fallen gum and has multiple options. We didn’t quite get it finished today but it’s all ok to ride. It will just be a bit longer eventually. Our thanks to the volunteers … Read more

Barry Closed for Maintenance

Barry will be closed for maintenance for the next couple of weeks whilst Iconic trails weave their magic. Please do not ride closed trails for your own safety and to protect the un-finished trails. To keep as many trails open for as long as possible, and maintain access to Rock Lobster, the following trail closures … Read more

Using Finite Element Analysis To Store Our Tools

We often have in excess of 30 volunteers at our trail days. Different jobs require different tools eg various rakes for cutting in new trails, shovels and mattocks for building jumps and berms and fixing drainage. This means that we have acquired over 60 hand tools. Our storage container was becoming a tangled mess; impossible … Read more

(Inner) North Shore

The sun was out for the first step of putting the Crazy back in to a the Crazy Crab Walk. A small crew of dedicated volunteers got the tools out and built this fun little 7.5m north shore structure out of mainly recycled materials. You can find this bridge over at the beginner area up … Read more

Trying Not To Lose Our Tools

Wooden handled shovels, mattocks and fire rakes are, well, stick coloured. Many of them even have green heads to further add to their camouflage. Unfortunately this means that from time to time we lose some. Of course no-one means to, but it is easy to move from one job to the next and grab a … Read more

Rocksanne Dig Day Wrap Up

The Rocksanne Dig Day was a huge success. Ruts were filled, drains added, new jumps built, berms packed, coffee drank, cakes scoffed and beers quaffed. A huge thank you to the large crew of enthusiastic volunteers who helped out today and to our Trail Day Sponsors Three Mills Bakery Maitland Street Roasters and Capital Brewing … Read more

2023 Kangaroo Cull

The ACT Eastern Grey Kangaroo conservation cull is commencing from Monday 12 June. Whilst the Majura Pines remains open during this period, the adjacent Mt Ainslie and Majura Nature Reserves are closed overnight on Sun, Mon, Tues, Wed and Thurs, from 6pm to 6am from the 12 June to the 31 July. This will affect … Read more

Rocksanne Trail Day – Sunday 18th June

Rocksanne Trail Build this Sunday (18th June). The top section of Rocksanne has become very eroded. Come and help fix the hub deep ruts and add some new features to the upper half of this trail. Everyone loves the adjacent Touching Cloth and Rocksanne can be just as good. Meet at 08:30 at the top … Read more

Trails Status – 12/5/23

Baby and Mama Bear remained CLOSED. They need to dry out and firm up a lot more. If they are ridden all of the good volunteer work done last week will be ruined. If you see anyone riding these trails or removing the signs and sticks please have a polite word. The good news is … Read more

How We Doubled Our Donations Thanks to Covid

If there is one thing that the Covid-19 pandemic taught everyone, it was how to use QR codes. By adding cheap, simple signage incorporating QR codes we more than doubled both our cash donations and volunteer sign ups. We have always had posters promoting our work on the notice boards at the entrances to the … Read more