DEVELOPERS TO THE RESCUE!?

It was madness. My wife and I were putting the final touches to the 3rd Edition of the Western Australian MTB Guide Book and in the back of the guide there was a list of pump track locations. In 2011, for the 1st Edition, it was a pretty limited compilation, and despite being somewhat extended, the same was the case for the 2nd Edition in 2015. The 3rd Edition had a pretty tight printer deadline, but despite that, I started the process of updating the pump track list for a third time in an attempt to make it as comprehensive and up-to-date as possible.

I got in touch with my contact in the relevant government department. "We don’t know where all the pump tracks are," he told me. Then I tried contacts inside the MTB community, as well as professional trail builders, and got the same reply. They'd heard lots of places have pump