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Cyclone Gabrielle hammers HB Mountain Bike Park... we need your help to rebuild.

$7,541 donated
Given by 54 generous donors in 10 weeks

Hawkes Bay Mountainbike Club needs your help to repair trails and replace trail building tools lost

Eskdale, Hawke's Bay

Valentines day 2023 will never be forgotton.

The Hawkes Bay region was directly hit by Cyclone Gabrielle with particular areas more so hit than others. The damage to the district, and in particular Esk Valley, where our mtb parks are located was something we could not believe.

Post the water subsiding, the initial inspection of the Main Park reported that EVERY track, approx. 75km of established trails, was impacted with land slips and/or trees littering the tracks, which as you can appreciate, will take a significant amount of time and effort to reinstate. At present, HB MTB have no tracks in the Pan Pac MTB trail network that are rideable.

In addition to the trails being badly damaged, we also seemed to have lost a container that stored ALL of our trail building tools and equipment. We believe it was washed out to sea (potentially heading to Chatham Islands) and we have lost everything. Our high viz tops, hand tools, to our motorized wheelbarrow. It's all gone.

Getting our MTB community back out on their bikes is a priority for the Club . We know we have passionate people waiting who will roll up their sleeves and start the rebuild, we just need the tools and funding to enable both our volunteers and paid track builders to get things moving. We all know that our bikes bring us that much needed ‘joy’ during times of difficulty! We need our park back!!

We would appreciate any support you can offer and hope, in time, you can head to HB and ride the trails you have supported.

Use of funds

Replacement of trail building tools, container and repair of 75km trail network in our MTB park.

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Plan going forward  28 June 2023

Thanks so much for your support. These funds are being used to purchase our new trail tools as we have finally been allowed to access back to carry on with working bees in the Waipunga block.

AGM next week so will let everyone know what is happening and if/when we can welcome you back to Eskdale mtb park!!

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Mike
Mike on 26 Jun 2023
$100
Richard
Richard on 25 Jun 2023
$1,000
Guest Donor
Guest Donor on 24 Jun 2023
$100
Laura
Laura on 18 Jun 2023
$150
Jill
Jill on 16 Jun 2023
We have often MTB there and love the trails.
$100

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This campaign started on 15 May 2023 and ended on 30 Jul 2023.