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Status History

	Age	Notes
Green	6 years	Nursery section has had some love and is in real good nick. Horse Trail section is getting a little blown out in places. Muppets loop is fine. Not strictly part of this track, but the Larool Fire...	view
Green	6 years	Green. Except for that small sharp something that punctured my front Tyre...	view
Amber	6 years	a bit of water on the St Ives ST today	view
Green	6 years	Only rode the Muppets loop, but it is fine.	view
Green	6 years	The link track from Muppets to Ryland was drier than I expected. Horse trail had a couple of damp spots. Nursery Track was fine. Didn't do Muppets. Linigen Pl track was also good.	view
Green	7 years	All good after the rain. A tree down on the Nursery section, but it already has some ramping on either side to make it rideable if you see it early enough. Horse Trail section and Muppets are...	view
Green	7 years	Linigen Pl trail, Nursery track, Horse track and Muppets are all fine. Obviously had plenty of use over the long weekend.	view
Green	7 years	Nursery section, Horse Trail and Muppets all are fine although getting a little loose and rutted in places. Linigen Pl trail is all good as well.	view
Green	7 years	Nursery sniggle, Horse trail and Muppets all fine. Linigen Pl track OK as well.	view
Green	7 years	Rode the Nursery, Horse Trail and Muppets sniggle this morning. A few wet spots but overall fine.	view
Green	7 years	Still a bit of water on the link trail across from Linigen Place. Nursery sniggle is fine, Horse Trail also. Muppets is a bit rutted, but no longer wet.	view
Amber	7 years	Nursery sniggle is fine - a little slippery at the top end, but the drainage works at the bottom are doing their job. Horse track section is a bit wet in places and getting chewed out where water...	view
Amber	7 years	Only rode (or tried to ride) the section from the old Nursery up to the Showground on Friday. Work had resumed on the drainage at the bottom end so the first third of the track was closed off....	view
Green	7 years	Rode through from Linigen Pl to the old Nursery, Nursery Track, Horse Track and Muppets. Only a couple of wet spots on Linigen, Nursery Track is fine (still a little slippery near the top end),...	view
Green	7 years	Nursery section is fine after a couple of dead trees have been trimmed. Horse Track section is OK. Muppets is fine except for dead tree now at chest height across the track towards the bottom of...	view
Green	7 years	Linigen Pl trail is fine. Nursery sniggle is good. Horse trail is fine. Still a tree across Muppets on the clockwise down slope, otherwise all good.	view
Green	7 years	Linagen Pl track is fine. Nursery sniggle is good, drainage work seems to have finished (or not resumed yet?). Horse track is fine, although construction at the gun club has recommenced, so be...	view
Green	7 years	All good. Looks like some more work to come on the Nursery section, as there are multiple ANL bulker bags dropped on the side of MV Rd. Horse track is fine and looks like construction work on the...	view
Green	7 years	The Nursery section, horse track and Muppets loop are all fine. Still a low hanging tree across Muppets.	view
Amber	7 years	Still construction work underway on the Nursery sniggle, so it may be closed at times during the week. Horse trail section is fine, low hanging tree still impeding the descent on Muppets....	view
Amber	7 years	Still some construction going on in the Nursery section. Was open today however. Dumbing it down a bit, but at least entrenching the track. Still a tree down near the bottom of the Muppets...	view
Amber	8 years	The section from the western end where you cross from Cascades and head up to the Showground is closed temporarily while the energy authority puts in anti-erosion measures to protect their gas...	view
Green	8 years	Nursery sniggle has had a HRB along most of it. Cleared a few bits of fallen timber, but otherwise all good (if a bit black). Horse track is fine, but construction work has started on the gun...	view
Amber	8 years	Nursery section is fine except for a bit of water damage at the lower end and a nasty little erosion drop off / step up up near the old pump house. Horse trail section is pretty good. Muppets is...	view
Amber	8 years	Still a few trees down, has drained well. No info on muppets but expect it is a muddy mess.	view
Amber	8 years	Still calling this amber. Sniggle up from the nursery is OK. Horse track is not too bad, with a couple of wet areas, a bit of erosion and a tree down near the pistol club. Muppets is a bit of a...	view
Amber	8 years	Muppets is a bit of a mess with a big tree down on the descent and a few big puddles that don't seem to be draining. The Single track along Monavale Road is in reasonable shape.	view
Green	8 years	Phil's Sneaky is fine. Nursery sniggle has another dead tree down near the nursery end start which requires a bit of a shimmy to get around. RFS have put in some burn line clearings running off...	view
Green	8 years	Linigen Pl track has a bit of water in the usual spots. Nursery sniggle is in great shape, with some spade work having been done on the big potholes near the top end and the two fallen trees...	view
Green	8 years	Lingen Pl track has a couple of wet spots. Nursery sniggle is fine. Horse track is fine. Muppets is fine. Larool track rock armoured section is gradually sinking into the bog it was put in to...	view
Green	8 years	Rode through from Linigen Pl via the nursery sniggle, show ground, horse track and muppets. All dry and in pretty good nick and getting plenty of traffic. Some tidy drainage work on the horse...	view
Green	8 years	All Good today	view
Red	8 years	Aĺl management trails in Ku Ring Gai Chase and Garigal NPs closed until 17th Jan by NPWS due to heavy rain Sun-Thurs last week. Singletrack will be sodden as well. Please respect the trail...	view
Green	8 years	Linigen Pl track, nursery sniggle, horse track sniggle and Muppets are all in fine fettle and getting quite a workout today.	view
Green	8 years	Dry and fast. Mostly in really good condition. The steep rock garden descent heading west (second-last climb going east) on Muppets is getting badly blown out, with a lot of sand being...	view
Green	9 years	Wildflower Garden is in quite reasonable condition. Damp at the bottom of some gullies but otherwise good, and rideable. Light misty drizzle this morning held the sandy bits together well.	view
Amber	9 years	Rode through from Linigen Pl to the Nursery sniggle, horse track and muppets loop today BEFORE the rain. It was still a bit damp in places from yesterday's rain and will be pretty messy after...	view
Green	9 years	Rode the Linigen Pl track, nursery sniggle, horse track and muppets today. All pretty good. There's one root step-up on the nursery sniggle heading east that is going to start catching people out...	view
Green	9 years	A couple of wet spots rapidly drying in this morning's sun, mainly at the Ryland end of the Snives Sniggle. Nothing to worry about. Worst mud / water was on Phil's Sneaky (Linigen Place...	view
Green	9 years	St Ives snuggle is in great form compared to recent times. The mud is gone. Muppets is great. Great cool morning to ride before 34c hits. Track is totally clear. Get out there.	view
Green	9 years	Rode through from the Nursery, Horse Trail, Muppet Show today. No problems.	view
Green	9 years	Wildflower Track, Horse Trail and Muppets all fine. Muppets looking a bit worn in a few places.	view
Green	9 years	Great.	view
Green	9 years	No real problems.	view
Green	9 years	Overall pretty good. Some slush just before the showground coming up from the nursery and some of the lower parts of Muppets could do with a rest, but otherwise all good. Has anyone ridden the...	view
Amber	9 years	Muppet Show is very boggy, and getting badly cut up in the lower parts. I recommend avoiding, and taking the link that keeps more parallel with Mona Vale Road. The rest of the trail...	view
Amber	9 years	Wildflower garden was in surprisingly good condition today. I was expecting it to be much wetter. There were dry lines through everything except the real low-lying sections where the groundwater...	view
Amber	9 years	There is a large tree down on the Eastern side of the show grounds, and some large, deep puddles	view
Amber	9 years	Rode the sniggle through from the nursery to muppets and back today. Some wet, slippery bits near the old pump house and up at the Ryland Track end, but otherwise not too bad.	view
Green	9 years	All good on the Nursery section. Showground pretty busy setting up for concert. Horse trail OK, with a few muddy holes at the Ryland end. Muppets good.	view
Green	9 years	mona vale sniggle, muppets show, jonnys jaunt etc etc... all bone dry. enjoy	view
Red	9 years	Only rode this morning as it's part of my commute to work. I'll ride Mona Vale road tonight though as the Sniggle is a creek. Please stay off the trail even over the weekend or it's going...	view
Green	9 years	Tree still down on the entrance to the showground end of the section through to the nursery. A tricky deep hole / puddle a few metres in as well. Rest is fine. Horse trail section is getting both...	view
Green	9 years	Tree down on the entrance from St Ives showground, but a new trail has formed to avoid it. The rest is all good, dry, quick, fun.	view
Green	9 years	Sniggle is all fine, though there a couple of spots where holes seem to have hollowed out with a bit of use while wet and you have to be pretty careful with line, wheel placement and pedal stroke...	view
Green	9 years	Wildflower Nursery through to Muppets all good. A couple of small puddles just before getting up to Ryland, but they will probably be gone by tomorrow. Didn't have time to check out Epiphany (the...	view
Green	10 years	Rode through from the Nursery to Muppet Show today. All good, getting a bit worn in places.	view
Green	10 years	Rode through from the Nursery to Muppet Show today. A few puddles up near the electricity towers before Ryland and again on the section back from MV Rd near Bunnings to Ryland. Otherwise all good...	view
Green	10 years	Rode the single track through from the nursery to Muppet Show. No problems to report.	view
Amber	10 years	St Ives sniggle has another tree down on the eastern end. Real flow killer. The rest is fine.	view
Green	10 years	Sniggle from The Nursery through to Muppets is all good. Has had a bit of a hammering while wet, but pretty much dried out now, except for a couple of damp spots. There is a detour around the...	view
Amber	10 years	Just be aware, there is a large tree blocking the Mona Vale Rd single track just after the entrance at the nursery.	view
Green	10 years	Rode through from the Wildflower nursery to Muppet Show & Bunnings today. All good.	view
Green	10 years	Rode the sniggle through from the Nursery to Muppet Show. A couple of wet spots up near Ryland, but they should be gone by the end of today if it doesn't rain again. Otherwise all good. ...	view
Green	10 years	Rode through from the Nursery to Muppet Show today and all good. Not even a patch of dampness after the light rain earlier this week. Dry and loose in places. A few tree roots starting to get a...	view
Green	10 years	A bit of water in a few spots near the power lines just before Ryland, but otherwise all good. Nice and grippy (although not in the sense that Phil Liggett uses that word.....)	view
Green	10 years	A few puddles on the section between the Showground and Ryland, but otherwise no problems from the rain. The stacked log roll over on the Wildflower Gardens end (the section that seems to...	view
Green	10 years	All good. Tree is still across the track on Muppet Show but is being ridden over.	view
Green	10 years	Superb. All dry all the way from Wildflower to Muppet show. There was only 2 small mud bits which you can go thru or around. Surprising its so dry after last weeks rain.	view
Green	10 years	The sniggle from the Wildflower Garden nursery through to Muppet Show is all good. A tad loose in places, but I'll take dry and loose over wet and muddy any day.	view
Green	11 years	There's a tree down blocking the track just up from the Nursery entrance (as well as a couple of new features). Otherwise all good. Horse Trail is fine. Muppet Show bedding in nicely. Still some...	view
Green	11 years	Most Sydney region parks will re-open morning of October 26. See: ...	view
Red	11 years	Here we go again. IMPORTANT: Due to the current fire emergency, all national parks have been closed across the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area until further notice. Some commercial...	view
Green	11 years	The NPWS total fire ban closure has now been lifted. See: ...	view
Red	11 years	Total Fire Ban All tracks and trails across all of the Metropolitan National Parks are closed Sunday 13 October 2013 due to Total Fire Ban. West Head Road is closed, however the basin...	view
Green	11 years	NPWS extreme fire danger closure has been lifted. See: ...	view
Red	11 years	Closed due to extreme fire danger. See: ...	view
Green	11 years	Very dry and dusty. And now I see what that chat about cleared trees was about. As one of the guys noted, funny how whoever is clearing logs has left the few downed logs that cross the trail...	view
Green	11 years	Aside from the chainsaw work mentioned elsewhere, the sniggle is all in good nick, apart from a couple of bits which are getting a bit rutted out.	view
Green	11 years	Rode the sniggle through to Ryland today. All good, has been getting plenty of traffic though, so wearing in a few places. Met a baby brown snake just before the water crossing after you go round...	view
Green	11 years	Dry and fast enough to be fun again after what seems like months of tip-toeing through the wet bits.	view
Amber	11 years	Rode the Mona Vale Rd sniggle today. A bit wet in the run from the rock drop to the pistol club road, but otherwise not too bad.	view
Amber	11 years	Some wet bits in the usual places, but overall not too bad.	view
Amber	11 years	Rode the Mona Vale Rd sniggle, with extensions, this arvo. Pretty wet in quite a few places. Needs a few dry days before it's fun again.	view
Amber	11 years	The upper sniggle was still a bit damp in places yesterday and is also in need of a bit of TLC in a few places. As far as I know, the bottom track is still unrideable. No evidence of mtb or moto...	view
Red	11 years	Did the ride back from Ryland after sniggle next to Mona Vale Rd. Its a swamp and overgrown with grass and lantana behind the gun club. Trees down everywhere and hills worn away with big rocks....	view
Amber	11 years	Be careful on the Sniggle between the shooting range and thecRyland fire trail. There's a tree down that's around head height. If you don't sight it, it could easily knock you on the head and off...	view
Amber	11 years	Be careful on the Sniggle between the shooting range and thecRyland fire trail. There's a tree down that's around head height. If you don't sight it, it could easily knock you on the head and off...	view
Green	11 years	Sniggle from the wildflower gardens thru to Ryland and thereabouts is in great nick.	view
Green	12 years	The upper sniggle is getting dry and dusty and well worn. Not going to venture down to the lower track until I hear that it's been cleared. Which may be a while....	view
Amber	12 years	Rode down Management track east today and back along the Mona Vale sniggle. There are at least 12 big trees down on Management track east from the wind on Thursday. It's a nightmare to get...	view
Green	13 years	Rode through from the Gardens to Forest Way on Sunday arvo. All good. A few dead branches coming down as the wind picked up, so a little care required.	view
Amber	13 years	Rode from Snives Showground through to Ryland Track today. Top bit of sniggle is fine (and well trafficked). Bottom run is still very muddy.	view
Green	13 years	Little bit of water in lower places but otherwise very dry and very fun...	view
Amber	13 years	Rideable. Mona vale sniggle is perfect, dry and all good. Ryland on the way back to the show ground was a different story thou. Very very boggy every 50 or so meters, would not be suggestible...	view
Green	13 years	Rode both the upper and lower sniggle from St Ives showground today. Seems to be getting quite a bit of mtb traffic. All good on the upper track. The lower track still has a couple of seepage...	view
Amber	14 years	Rode from the gardens, up the back of the showground, along the upper sniggle and back to the showground along the track at the bottom of the gun club. Couple of wet spots on the upper sniggle,...	view
Green	14 years	Only rode the single trail and was mostly dry. Puddle or two to force me to clean the bike but a nice quick ride.	view
Green	14 years	All good	view
Green	14 years	With the exception of the firetrail behind the gun club (which is only a little boggy) perfectly dry here.	view
Green	14 years	According to http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/dsp_content.cfm?cat_id......	view
Red	14 years	Sydney wide total fire ban. See: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/...	view
Green	15 years	RFS update page shows TFB removed and fire danger decreased: http://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/...	view
Red	15 years	TOTAL FIREBAN AND TRAIL CLOSURE IN KG / Garigal NP SINCE FRIDAY 20/11 @ 8 AM see: http://nobmob.com/node/11452...	view
Amber	15 years	The locked gate on east side of the garden is a small annoyance. Have a look around and it becomes obvious how to bypass though. Trail directly behind the gun club is very soggy still.	view

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