06 November 2023
03 October 2023
Richard Goldsbury has tireless energy and enthusiasm for creating and maintaining trails around Canterbury. When his brush cutter died after an honourable life, the Slush Fund and GC Super D stepped in to purchase a new industrial-strength Stihl so Richard and his cohort can keep up the good work.
22 August 2023
The Kawatiri Nature Environment and Communities Trust (KNECT) and the Buller Cycling Club are establishing a spectrum of trails throughout the 1000 acre native bush clad hills of Gentle Annie, a special spot just north of Westport on the South Islands' West Coast.
20 June 2023
The Marlborough Mtb Club manages an extensive network of trails and recently requested some 'loose change' from the Slush Fund to cover the short fall on their purchase of a 1.7t digger. The digger is now hard at work getting the trails at Homebrook and Wither Hills ready for the club to host the 2023 Skoda National School Mtb Champs in October.
23 May 2023
Back in 2020 the Golden Bay Mtb Club began an ambitious project connecting Takaka Hill Saddle with Upper Takaka. They have been hard at work this year inching their way down the hill building the grade three descending track which will form part of the Pikikirunga Trail. The Slush Fund donated another $2000 to fund more digger time.
14 March 2023
22 December 2022
17 August 2021
Damian Stones and his video camera capture construction of the new 'Butters' grade 5 trail in Nelson.
26 July 2021
21 June 2021
Artfully dodging forecasts of incoming inclement weather, thirty-odd keen trail elves scraped, shaped, crafted and benched Christchurch’s Taylors Escape track back in June 2021. With a load more trail love the track is running like a dream for summer 2023.
08 June 2021
The Ground Effect Slush Fund has hooked up the custodians of Lyttelton Mountain Bike Trails with some cash to purchase tools to help with trail maintenance and building efforts at Urumau.
12 May 2021
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