Making of the bicycle trails

Making bicycle trails on Sondela

Once a year on Sondela we have a bicycle ride day for the whole family. This is a nice bonding time for familys and for parents to do have fun with there kids!

And believe me it was a great day and even better weekend. We were full in the caravan park and the family's had lots of fun. We had give and take a little round about 260 people joing in on the fun and we had a 2km, 20km and a huge 40km.

Now everybody enjoyed the wonderfull weekend nobody really knows what went on behind the scenes. So im going to give you a little bit of information and a watch of behind the scenes for a whole week before the fun started.

We as students were asighned the work of making the trails for the bicycles to be able to drive. It was a long and hard week but worth it becouse now we are all able to go into a veld and re-construcked an old road that has been grown almost closed of trees and grass and make it a bicycle trail for people to enjoy.

We where diveded into groups each on with there own leader which was a second year student. In this groups we were working on deferent pieces of the road. Starting early and finnishing late. On the working of the roads we used the following:

• Spade
• rake
• pang
• Saw

With the making of the trails we learned how to start a trail and how to make a trail according to managers orders and to make it a health and safety trail witch means it is safe for cyclers to cycle on!

The trails were a huge sucess and the cyclers enjoyed the weekend with us!