Trail Building and Maintenance

Island Mountain Rides provides trail building and maintenance services. IMR Trails specializes in hand built mountain biking and multi-use trails. We bring over 25 years of trail building and maintenance experience for your project needs. We are fully insured and operate safely and environmentally friendly. 🙂

Island Mountain Rides is recognized by the Province of British Columbia as a Qualified Trail Building Professional.

IMR also provides trail layout and network design services including trail and bridge/TTF safety and signage audits.

Projects:

Snowden Demonstration Forest: 2024 – 2025

IMR provided trail maintenance services for the River City Cycle Club. These works included many reroutes to improve trail sustainability through trail realignment and drainage. We also improved rider flow and fun through rollers, berms, jumps and other fun features.

Hornby Island Trail Improvements: 2023/2024

Over the course of 2 years, IMR performed trail improvements on the Hornby Island Trail network. These projects were for the Comox Valley Regional District in cooperation with the Hornby Island Mountain Bike Association (HIMBA). The projects consisted of trail layout/design and building. IMR used local labour and volunteers throughout these projects.

Snowden Demonstration Forest: January – April 2021

IMR Trails received a major works project through Recreation Sites and Trails BC in cooperation with the River City Cycle Club. This project was a 3 month duration and we had a crew of up to 8 persons working during the project. We built/maintained over 4km of trail and over 40m of bridges. All construction was hand built to Whistler Trail Standards. We worked on the following trails, Stickman, Grilled Cheese, Mudhoney Pass, Lookout Loop and Frog Legs. We worked in varied terrain and in tough winter weather conditions. We adapted to the weather and resources and had a successful build.

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Village of Cumberland Trails: 2017 – 2020

IMR Trails provided trail maintenance services for trails within the Village of Cumberland boundaries. These small projects in the Fall of each year were focussed on maintenance of existing trails. IMR worked with the Village of Cumberland Recreation Management to inspect all of the trails and determine maintenance needs. Maintenance involved creating new dirt features and rebuilding existing features to create sustainable and fun trails that ride well and drain properly. We have worked extensively on Space Nugget, the end of Kitty Litter, No Hole, Found Link and some sections of Broncos Perseverence and Mama Bears.

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