Roaches permissive bridleway maintenance April 14th 2018

We had a fantastic turnout for our first Staffordshire “dig day” on the Roaches Estate last weekend. Sixteen volunteers met in Gradbach on a fabulous sunny Spring day, giving up their precious riding time to make our Peak District trails better. Jon Rowe from Staffordshire Wildlife Trust – land managers of the Roaches – was […]

Aston Bridleway Maintenance March 2018

 The Peak District MTB Dig Team kicked off the first engagement of the season at Aston, in the Hope Valley, on a dry Thursday in March. We’d last done bridleway maintenance here in late 2016, reinstating a french drain near the bottom. After some brews at Cafe Adventure in Hope and the handing over […]

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Dig days – 2018 Trail Maintenance Schedule

Here’s our 2018 Schedule of trail maintenance AKA ‘Dig Days’. We really hope you can spare time to come along to at least one of these events, essential to keeping our beloved mountain bike trails in tip-top condition. Keep your eye on this as we add additional dig days. Our dig days start at 10am […]

Peak District Trail Maintenance Update

As you may be aware we get stuck into a lot of maintenance on the rights of network in the Peak District, everything from rebuilding drains on bridleways through to re-affirming the lines on widening tracks, all with the intention of keeping the tracks and trails open and in the best condition possible. To do […]

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Bridleway Maintenance near Aston, Peak District

Here’s a great time lapse video showing some of our trail maintenance volunteers working hard to sort the drainage on a bridleway near Aston in the Derbyshire Peak District. Bridleway Maintenance at Aston – December 2016 from PDMTB on Vimeo.

Whinstone Lee Tor to Cutthroat Bridge Bridleway

Today the Peak District MTB maintenance team have been out and started work on Winstone Lee Tor to Cutthroat Bridge Bridleway. We have previously reported about Whinstone Lee Tor resurfacing works. For various reasons the planned above works are yet to begin. Which presented a interesting opportunity. What could be done by volunteers to improve […]