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I heard some rumors the trail is closed due to errosion. True???
I heard some rumors the trail is closed due to errosion. True???
Hey Peter Pot,I heard some rumors the trail is closed due to errosion. True???
I heard some rumors the trail is closed due to errosion. True???
Not exactly. In most of NJ, there's a relatively thin layer of "good" dirt over top of clay or sand, both of which are not great trail surfaces. The top layer is mostly made up of decaying vegetation and is held together by living and dead root systems from grass, other ground cover and nearby brush. It's already weakened by the process of clearing the live vegetation to create the trail, and when it's wet, the traffic on the trail easily tears up the stuff that holds the top layer together. Once this happens, it's much easier for rain to wash the soil away. That's why you usually don't see much erosion of the ground that's not part of the trail.There’s only one perpetrator to erosion: Mother Nature. The rain from above moves more dirt on trails then any bike ever will.
Not exactly. In most of NJ, there's a relatively thin layer of "good" dirt over top of clay or sand, both of which are not great trail surfaces. The top layer is mostly made up of decaying vegetation and is held together by living and dead root systems from grass, other ground cover and nearby brush. It's already weakened by the process of clearing the live vegetation to create the trail, and when it's wet, the traffic on the trail easily tears up the stuff that holds the top layer together. Once this happens, it's much easier for rain to wash the soil away. That's why you usually don't see much erosion of the ground that's not part of the trail.
But to people who want to ride in the mud, it sounds like you're telling them that it's not them, it's the rain, so might as well ride.It was meant more towards the myth that bikes only cause erosion and are to be blamed for any and all damage a trail is exposed to...