The lift beside the apartment door is where every work day and MTB adventure at Mt Buller starts and ends. It’s like a scene from The Matrix as the synthetic voice intones ‘Going Down’ while you sit on your bike waiting to burst out of the metallic, artificial confines of the lift and out on to the trails. (more…)
Work on the Alpine Epic continues! ATM we’re working directly across from a massive hillside of ferns. It’s an awesome place for bike trail and a pretty cool tea room for a morning break! (more…)
The World Trail crew were super fortunate to be invited along on Mt Buller’s Pygmy Possum monitoring program.
Until relatively recently the Pygmy Possum (Burramys Parvus) was thought to be extinct. It turned out however that small communities were surviving in various alpine locations. The guys at Mt Buller estimate the Pygmy Possum population within the resort area to be currently (only!) ~70 and have an extensive management plan in place to protect these resourceful little critters and their environment. (more…)
Summer weather is full force with Victoria enduring a week long heatwave with maximum temperatures pinned at 40+ degrees.
It’s pretty tough trail building down in the valley in that kind of heat. Relief comes in the form of Total Fire Ban days, during which construction work must cease. There have been a couple of Total Fire Ban days this week so it’s been a good opportunity to get out and ride. (more…)
