Duthie Oct Status Report

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Hey folks,

Thanks to all of your hard work, Duthie is really coming together! We've got almost 4 miles of rideable XC trail and several freeride lines are getting close to completion. Here's a quick summary of the plan:

Mission:
Professionally design and build a suburban Mountain Bike Park by March 31st 2010 that features flowy cross-county and freeride trails, and is a place where riders of all ages and skill levels can gather to share an exciting mountain biking experience.

Deliverables:

• >5 miles of flowy XC trails
• >1 mile of Freeride trails
• >2 acre clearing for park's central hub
• Access from Duthie Hill Rd to the North: 600 ft boardwalk over the swamp
• Access from Issaquah Fall City Rd to the South: maintenance access road
• Detailed Phase 2 design

And below is the end Oct status report. Click here to sign up for a work party and let's git'r'done!

Cheers,

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Oct Status Report

Overall Status

-- We're on track.

Total work complete:	~70%
Total work planned:	~70%

We have 5 months of brushing and 8 months of solid construction under our belts. With 5 more months to go, we're on schedule but we're going to have to get the volunteer #s up a bit and recruit a few builders to work independently on the XC trails' optional features. We're also right on budget, but we're going to really have to watch spending.

Key milestones:

• Jan 2008: started project planning and design
• Sept 2008: started brushing XC trails
• Feb 2009: started building Bootcamp trail and several FR trails
• April 2009: south maintenance access road complete
• May 2009: started north access boardwalk
• June 2009: 1.5 mile Bootcamp trail rideable, clearing complete
• Aug 2009: 1.5 mile NE XC trail rideable
• Nov 2009: 1 mile SW XC trail rideable
• Jan 2009: 1 more mile of XC trail rideable... for a total of 5 miles

XC Trails

-- On Track.

% Complete:

• Flagging: 100%
• Brushing: 100%
• Benching: 75%
• Drainage, Berms, Flow & Route Tuning: 30%
• Features: 20% (most feature construction moved to Phase 2)

Mileage:

• almost 4 miles of the planned 5 miles are benched and rideable
• 1.5 mile Bootcamp trail benched and rideable
• 1.5 mile NE XC trail benched and rideable
• Over 0.5 mile of the SW quad trail benched and rideable.

Freeride Trails

-- On Track.

No shortage of builders and volunteers who want to build more advanced freeride lines. Huge thanks to:

• Dirt Corps for the expert flowpark line (>50% complete)
• DWBs for the advanced/expert flowpark line (>50% complete)
• Highlife Crew for the advanced freeride line
• Zeb & Leif for the mini-D DH line (>50% complete)
• Jamie for Ryan's line modeled after Flowtron.

And a huge thanks to our first teams to step up and take on a few beginner freeride lines:

• Fredrika & the LunaChix for beginner drop, step-down and tabletop jump lines.

Boardwalk

-- On Track

Almost 500 ft complete and 100 ft to go. Lookin' awesome!

Maint Access Road

-- Complete

Clearing

-- On Track
Completely re-cleared. 2 tasks remaining: 1) bring in a wood chipper to chip up the alder branches -- we should be able to handle that in 1 day. 2) haul away the alder root balls piled up in the clearing.

Budget

-- Warning.

We're looking good, but we need to watch every penny.

.	Expenses	Budget (total)	%Budget (total)
Materials:	$xK	$xK	x%
Services:	$xK	$xK	x%
Capital:	$xK	$xK	x%
Contingency:	$xk	$xK	x%
Total:	$xK	$xK	x%

Volunteer Hours

-- Less than expected at general work parties and on XC trails.

-- More than expected on Freeride trails.

Total hours:	xxx
Total Project Target:	xxx
%Target:	xxx%

Materials & Tools Donations

-- Exceeding Expectations.

We ran the initial budget assuming no significant materials, tools and services donations. Very generous donations so far:

• storage trailer loaner from Chris Bentley
• excavator loaner from Hertz Rob Gibson
• toter and hand tool loaners from King County Parks

Thanks to all of our awesome donors!!