Trails Update: October 4, 2025
back to the deep woods
After a week full of volunteer events and smaller projects on the lower westside, the crew travelled back to the tools we stashed near the top of Yummy Numby. It feels like a month has passed since we were last here! The mature forest surrounding Comfortably Numb features a dense root infested organic layer which gives the trail’s tread a split personality: When conditions are dry, the trail bed is firm and grippy and awesome. When conditions are damp, the “just ridden in” tread behaves like a sponge, holding water, creating a muddy, slippery slog. We were waiting for the latter to continue with our repairs to this iconic 25 year old trail. As fungus sprung up through the moss, the trail revealed its wetter spots. We closed out the week stashing the tools near the top of Bring On The Weekend (BOTW)! BOTW has quickly become a must ride trail for locals and tourists alike and has been the main reason for increased user numbers on C-Numb in recent years. We’ve ridden through BOTW with its caretakers to discuss various repairs and our plan for the coming weeks will be “to take some of the edge off”. And, perhaps take some of the mushrooms out as well… Speaking of Mushrooms: Get your tickets to the Whistler Naturalist’s Fungus Among Us festival before they sell out!
square shovels?
The RMOW trail crew has been morphing the Baylie Park BMX track into a jump park. When they reached out to WORCA for help, I saw it as an opportunity for the crew to learn and experience a new and fun trail building niche. Bike park and dirt jump aficionados are familiar with the iconic Square flat shovel. They’re used to move dirt (from a loose pile) and SLAP it down for a firm smooth finish. The WORCA trail crew only have Spade shovels in our arsenal. These are curved and pointed. These are more appropriate for digging down through rooty and rock filled soil which is more typical in the forest. We helped with sifting, raking, shaping and slapping before getting to the real fun: testing! Followed by more shaping and slapping and testing again. This week’s heavy rain has slowed the finish of the initial build but stay tuned for opening of this new facility later this month. I would like to thank the Whistler Rotary Club and the RMOW for their commitment to re-invigorating this part of Baylie Park! In other RMOW project news… Lower Beaver Pass and Whip Me Snip Me are open following wildfire risk thinning. Also, the new Al Grey memorial bridge over Wedge creek (Comfortably-Numb) is nearing completion. Please stay out of the area until all work on that site is complete. Remember to check Trailforks before your ride!
See you on the Trails!
Dan Raymond
WORCA Lead Trail Builder
