Friday, April 30, 2010

Opening day is finally here!

It has been 5 1/2 weeks since we first began our pre-season maintenance and trail building campaign. The ParkLogic crew has been putting in some incredibly long days to get the park dialed just in time for opening day! As you can see by some of the posts here in the blog we have made some great progress and have rationed our time wisely by improving existing trails, while adding some new features and lines here and there. 

It has been a fun five weeks and we have accomplished most of the projects we set out to tackle.  On the flipside, there are a few projects that are not quite complete for opening day and we wanted to give you the heads up. As follows:

-U.S. Open Chute - As most of you know, this fun little section was eliminated in order to accommodate a very important ski trail project last fall. We have a solid plan in place to re-establish this area but we are going to need 7-10 before we can finalize and revamp this section. Very worst case, this area will be reopened the week prior to the U.S. Open (and remain open the entire season). We've rerouted the mid section of Asylum to avoid the chute. 

-New section of Ego Trip - this relatively short section will be open this weekend, however it is not 100% complete.  There will be 1-2 features added within the next two weeks so if the section doesn't quite make sense yet... now you know. There was a delay in our metal shipment which caused us to fall behind on this new-ish intermediate section.

-There are still quite a few features and trail sections that are on our wishlist and we are going to squeeze-in as many projects prior to the U.S. Open as possible. In addition we have an all-new trail called Revelation slated for early summer. Revelation will replace 'Evil Bob' and take advantage of some epic natural terrain. 

It is going to be a great season and we look forward to seeing you at the park!

Diablo Mountain Bike Park
General Manager & Marketing Director: Shawn Orecchio

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