The World Trail team has landed back onto the volcanic tableands, to a town called Atherton. Late last year the trail crew constructed a 7klm loop, named "Ridgy Didge", and the responce was so positive, a contract for the next stage was rolled onto our team to deliver another iconic style trail for the region. Construction started last week on an All Mountain trail with Downhill B-Lines, with delivery expected by late June.

 The long awaited trail systems planned for Falls Creek, in Victoria are now rolling along at full steam. The trail crew on the highland resort are busy designing, constructing and shaping a bunch of trails with spectacular scenery and lookouts close to the village centre.

This stage which is expected to be complete by late April, early May, will showcase new trail layouts, featuring large boulder slabs, iconic snowgum forests and lush green grass fields throughout the high country destination.

 Ever since the opening of Stonefly, the trail entry from Howqua Gap caused a few people to struggle up the initial climb. The series of tight and steep switchbacks were in place because the original design, crossed through a densely vegitated creek, which was deemed to sensitive for a trail.

In 2010, some massive flash floods and large thunderstorms hit Mt Buller, resulting in the entire creek being ripped open and left bare. After some years a revisit onsite site found that the original design could be instated.

Last week the trail crew cut a gentle 200 metre link, bypassing the old tight switchbacks, opening up a crossing which feature 263 large microwave sized boulders dug into 43 metres of trail.

 As the trails evolve and grow on Mt Buller, every now and then, our trail crew revisit various older sections of trail which need extra attention.

This year our team attacked a couple of areas within the trail network which needed this extra love.

On the trail leading to Corn Hill, just past the Delatite is a nasty rock corner, which always challenged riders. Unfortunately the corner had a 1 in 5 rating of success within only 20% of all who approched it. The decision was to widen the corner, yet keep the technical part of the challenge. Widening the trail took days and days of transporting large rocks to fill the corner, then harvest huge flat rock plates. 

The result is a corner with more of a success rate, yet still technical enough to appease the core riders.

 Just an hour or so from Melbourne, sits the vintage township of Trentham, which was once one of the largest potatoe producing regions in Australia.

World Trail was asked to construct a small, yet fun Pocket Park for the ride community near the centre of town. The park had loads of support from the local community and riders, who over the years, put in alot of effort. Finally, Trentham got the tick of approval for the project to get the ground, making all the hard work a reality.

Expected to be complete by mid February, the park sits beside the local skate park and features various beginner to intermediate obstacles, all constructed by our Alpine trail building crew.