New Flow Trail in Woolastook

Riders – we are opening another flow trail. This time, it’s in Woolastook’s front-country and you won’t have to crank out twenty-one switchbacks to get your lap down.

A few weeks ago Kodiak Trial Works returned to Wooly and started digging with an aim to carve out a descent that will run from the “summit deck” to the trailhead. Today we are ready to tear down the caution tape and open up the first section of the trail. While things may still be settling, we think it’s ready to ride down to the intersection with Summit trail. Have a look at these progress pics and go catch a session in the week of sultry weather we have coming up!

For now, the trail will keep it’s temporary “T-8” designation from our Woolastook Master Plan. We’ll wait and see how the rest of it feels before giving it a name. It will be a moderate (blue) grade that it will keep through the rest of the build and it will also be a downhill-only direction. Sorry, because of the expected speeds and the jumps this one isn’t suitable for hiking or trail-running.

T-8 on Trailforks.com

While we are at it… there’s a few other updates we’ve recently made to clean up the map for Woolastook park. All of these updates are live on Trailforks now so update your app if you use it:

• Split Rail has now been finished all the way to where it joins with Kelly’s Cove. Thanks Bev! We’ve updated the entire length of this trail to give it a ‘green’ grade.
• Rock N’ Roll, The Otterbahn, and Owl Be Back are all new opened in the last few months.
• We’ve renamed the trail built around the Fox’s Den to ‘Silver Fox‘!
• A few old legacy trails are decommissioned (as per our plan). These include Dave’s Drop, Bev’s Knoll, Mel’s Fav, Rough Start, and Snakes N’ Ladders. These were great trails for their day but they’ve been retired to make room for streamlined new trail junctions and other modern design improvements.

We hope you love riding the new T-8 and the completed Split Rail! These projects wouldn’t have been possible without the generous funding from the Canada Community Building Fund AND from the heroic quantity of volunteer effort that has poured into this park since our project began. If you love Woolastook, as well as the other trail systems we support, it’s not too late to contribute. RVC’s 2024 memberships are still available! Plan for a riding as the leaves change colour and the air turns crisp.