Without the Trail builders, our trails would deteriorate and become unrideable. It takes a special skill to appreciate the angles which ramps should be or the curve that a berm should hold to ensure that riders stay on the trail. One of the more important and less loved parts of mountain biking is trail building (and maintenance), because someone needs to keep the trails running when they get run down, or take the time to make new ones. I first started fixing jumps and trails when I was 12 - with my friend Thorin - at my local pump track in Fish Hoek. By the time I was 13 I was building jumps at the Black Hill jump-line near my home. Over the last 3 years we have maintained this line and expanded it to include new jump lines.