Greensfelder Workday photo gallery up

Greensfelder workday gallery posted. Photos here.

Added more pictures today from Eagle Valley and other parts of the trail.

Greensfelder Workday, this Saturday 4/9/11

Hey everyone,

This is our last workday to prepare the singletrack at Greensfelder for the May Greensfelder Challenge race. It's only a month away. We hope to see you there because we have several maintenance projects we need to complete.

Greensfelder Workday - Trail Construction

Date: Sat, April 9th, 2010, 9am to 1pm (FREE LUNCH!) - Bike or Hike After!

Location: Greenfelder Park, St. Louis County

What: We will be armoring and finishing up the new trail constructed on 2/26. It is time to get it fixed up and ready for use. We might also take on a few other projects given a good attendance by skilled GORC folks.

Where: Greensfelder Park, Allenton Rd. behind Six Flags (Park at Tower Lot)

Take Interstate 44 to the Allenton/Six Flags Exit 261. Go north on Allenton Rd, past the Six Flags entrance. Allenton Rd. bisects Greensfelder Park. Lunch will be afterwards at the Mueckerman Shelter located at the corner of Allenton and Hencken road.
(See www.gorctrails.com for directions and details of the park)

What to bring: Gloves, Sturdy shoes, eye protection, and something to drink on the trail.

GORC & St. Louis County Parks provide: Trail building tools, instructions on trail building, and safety guidelines.

Please post to our message board if you are coming.

Greensfelder Gallery Posted

Twenty photos showing what GORC does best - build trail. Check it out.

Greensfelder Workday recap

First of all, looking at the above photo you can clearly see that this weekend was a crushing success. GORC finished the labor intensive switchback project that was started over a year ago.

Several volunteers set and lay stone for hours while three other crews worked on the other side of the ridge repairing erosion damage on all three of the climbing turns that get you up to the rollercoaster ridge section of the DeClue (going clockwise, this is the long climb after the monkeyheads.)

The flavor of the trail was taken into consideration with a new climbing turn that is now only 10% instead of the old 22% dirt channel that continued to get deeper after every rain. The second climbing turn was widened in place, smoothed out and a berm cut in where dirt was available. Lastly the third turn was slightly extended to facilitate better flow and control while maintaining your speed. All should handle the water much more effectively than in the past.

Check out the GORC handiwork for yourself and consider coming out to our workdays. If you like what you see in the woods then just think how much more can get accomplished with more pulaskis in the dirt.

Gallery Yourself

Read what el presidente had to say about the weekend at the bottom of this forum thread

Greensfelder Workday This Saturday 11/6/10

Greensfelder Workday
This Saturday

Attention members! As always, we need a strong showing of GORC volunteers to lead the other volunteer groups that show up. St. Louis County has scheduled a large gathering of volunteers and we need as many GORC participants as possible.

When: Saturday, November 6, 2010

Where: Greensfelder Park, St. Louis County

Directions: Take Interstate 44 to the Allenton/Six Flags Exit 261. Go north on Allenton Rd, past the Six Flags entrance. Allenton Rd. bisects Greensfelder Park. Lunch will be afterwards at the Muckerman Shelter located at the corner of Allenton and Hencken road.

Details: We will meet at Greensfelder Park, Allenton Rd. behind Six Flags (Park at Tower Lot). Start time is 9:00am and will work until 12:30 or so. Lunch and bike or hike after.

What to bring: 
Sturdy shoes, gloves, eye protection and something to drink.


Lunch will be provided by St. Louis County Parks.

What we are doing: Maintenance at Greensfelder Park in preparation for the long hard winter. We will start construction of a large switchback on the Declue Extension and will be doing other maintenance projects on the Declue trail.

GF Blog... What?

Bet you forgot that GORC has a separate Greensfelder blog... which can be found on the Greensfelder Trail page.

It transforms once a season into the GORC / UFD Greensfelder Challenge Race Blog but the rest of the year it's dedicated to news and info about Greensfelder. It's primarily maintained by me so the updates may be infrequent at times but I try to keep it current. Bloggatronix

Maps Posted

The SIUE trail map has been updated here.

The official Greensfelder race map has been posted over on the Greensfelder race blog.

Greensfelder Workday Update and Gallery

Thank you to everyone that came out today. We managed to armor three major wet spots, deburm some of Declue and open a 0.7 mile extension to the Declue Trail. Then we rode our bikes on some of the best conditions Greensfelder has been in April in forever. What a great day! Thanks for helping.
A new Greensfelder gallery has been posted using Picasa.

April 10th, Greensfelder Workday

Greensfelder Workday
April 10th, 2010, 9am to 1pm
Trail Construction

Date: Sat, April 10th, 2010, 9am to 1pm (FREE LUNCH!) – Bike or Hike After!

Location: Greensfelder Park, St. Louis County

What: Help build new trail and do maintenance at Greensfelder Park in preparation for the May 8th Federation of Dirt Greensfelder Challenge. We will be adding 0.7 of a mile of singletrack to the Declue Trail and armoring several drainages.

Where: Greensfelder Park, Allenton Rd. behind Six Flags (Park at Tower Lot)

Take Interstate 44 to the Allenton/Six Flags Exit 261. Go north on Allenton Rd, past the Six Flags entrance. Allenton Rd. bisects Greensfelder Park. Lunch will be afterwards at the Mueckerman Shelter located at the corner of Allenton and Hencken road.
(See www.gorctrails.com for directions and details of the park)
What to bring: Gloves, Sturdy shoes, eye protection, and something to drink on the trail.

Advance registration is required for Saturday. Please contact Sue Kuhnert at 314-615-8822 or email skuhnert@stlouisco.com

GORC & St. Louis County Parks provide: Trail building tools, instructions on trail building, and safety guidelines.

Greensfelder Workday - Feb. 27th, 9am to 1pm

Yellow line represents new trail reroute to eliminate fall line at the end of the DeClue trail. Blue is existing DeClue. Trail in Blue after Yellow line intersecton will be reclaimed back to forest. This will be about a .35-.45 mile piece of new singletrack built to IMBA standards.

Date: Sat, Feb 27, 2010, 9am to 1pm
Location: Eureka, MO

Join GORC & St. Louis County Parks at Greensfelder Park on Sat, February 27th, 2010 from 9am to 1pm to help build new trail and re-route sections of existing trail at Greensfelder Park.

We will be re-routing a short steep section at the end of the Declue/Greenrock Trail where it ties into the Scenic Loop road.

Come out, work with us in the morning, we'll serve you a nice lunch, and then we'll bike or hike afterwards.

How to get there: You're headed for Greensfelder Park on Allenton Rd. behind Six Flags. You should park at the Tower Lot. Take Interstate 44 to the Allenton/Six Flags Exit 261. Go north on Allenton Rd, past the Six Flags entrance. Allenton Rd. bisects Greensfelder Park. Lunch will be afterward at the Mueckerman Shelter located at the corner of Allenton and Hencken road.

What to bring: Gloves, Sturdy shoes, eye protection, and something to drink on the trail.
What GORC & St. Louis County Parks provide: Trail building tools, instructions on trail building, and safety guidelines.

Maplewood Bicycle is sponsoring this workday and will have coupons available after the workday. Check out their website for training classes related to bicyclists.

Advance registration is required. Also, post on the messageboard if you are attending. Please contact Sue Kuhnert at 314-615-8822 or email skuhnert@stlouisco.com

Greensfelder Workday/Party-- December 12th

Saturday, December 12th from 9am-1pm we'll be working on rerouting the section around the creek crossing below the rock garden. This is a fall-line section that's unable to be maintained. After this, there will be only a few other sections on both DeClue and Dogwood which are fall-line, and should help extend the time that Greensfelder is rideable throughout the year. We're also going to be doing a short reroute on the DeClue extension, and if we have enough people, there are a lot of other little projects we can work on.

Afterwards, there will be a party with refreshments for GORC volunteers to thank them for the hard work they've put in over the year to build new trails, and make the ones we have better. More info and sign-up are here.

Greensfelder Workday - Oct 3rd, 9am - 1pm -->> Come Help Build Some Sweet Trail!!!

Greensfelder beckons....

Yes, the fall workday schedule is in full swing! With the Burnin' at the Bluff 12 hour race and the Berryman Epic coming up quickly do yourself some good and bank some great race karma by attending a GORC trailbuilding workday.

We will be working on connecting the DeClue extension all the way to the Scenic Loop road. We need your help to finish the leg this year and get the trail connected so it can be ridden as a loop before winter! Some people have already been making it into a loop so we just need to do some final benchcutting work and making it awesome. If you ride a bike or a horse or use hiking boots then do yourself a favor and make your favorite St. Louis County park even better.

Maplewood Bicycle is sponsoring this workday and will be providing coffee, juice and bagels. They will be providing cool swag giveaways.

Details
9am - 1pm, lunch provided, group ride following lunch
Meet at the "tower" parking lot - first paved lot on the right side of Allenton road coming up from 6 Flags.

Greensfelder April 18 Workday Recap

Thanks to the 23+ people who came out and made the workday a success. We nearly completed 1/4 mile of new bench with your hard work. The rain even held off and gave us perfect weather for working and lunch. Thanks to Maplewood Bicycles for sponsoring the event by being there bright and early with coffee, bagels and muffins. They also provided gift certificates to everyone that attended and a few attendance prizes including a full bike fit worth $250.00. Thank you one and all. We'll be back in the fall to continue this piece of trail.

That tree stump ran home crying for it's Mother after John Twist and Bryan Adams got done with it!

Greensfelder Workday This Weekend 9am-1pm

On Saturday, April 18th, 2009 we're having a workday at Greensfelder Park, and all interested people are invited...Mountain Bikers, Equestrians, Hikers and Avid Outdoor type persons. This workday will be co-sponsored by St. Louis County Parks and Maplewood Bicycles.

Maplewood Bicycles will have somebody attending the workday and they will also be giving away cool schwag.

Here's the basics:

Directions: Take Interstate 44 to the Allenton/Six Flags Exit 261. Go north on Allenton Rd, past the Six Flags entrance. Allenton Rd. bisects Greensfelder Park. Parking is in the paved parking lot for the Radio Tower/Scenic Loop on the right at the top of the hill.

What to bring: Gloves, Sturdy shoes, eye protection, and something to drink on the trail.

Please RSVP to: The St. Louis County Park's (SCCP) office as advance registration is required for Saturday. Please contact Sue Kuhnert at 314-615-8822 or email skuhnert@stlouisco.com.

GORC & St. Louis County Parks provide: Trail building tools, instructions on trail building, and safety guidelines.

Why: To add more multi-use single track (natural surface) trail to the existing Declue/Greenrock Trails.

After the workday: St. Louis County Parks will provide lunch, so that's why it is important to RSVP so they have a headcount. Bring your bike we'll ride afterwards if conditions are good.

Before you come out: Please read pilznr's article about what to expect at a workday.

If you have any questions AND to let us know if you will be attending, please post them here. Thanks.