Fruitloop

More trail building history which will draw doubt in some eyes on who and the timeline etc...But it has to be said cause someone has their trail creation dates wrong and who made em or who followed along them after being made and claiming them as built by him/them.

So back in the day when there was very little trails to ride in the Don Valley as most were walking trails used as bypasses to get through the park to other areas. It was the Ridge pottery to Thorncliffe ( yes most sections were walking trails!), The Flats in 2 sections, Sun valley if you liked gravel and a circle and various other short walking trails cutting through the valley like Vanderhoof Hill and Boomerang Hill which both lead to roads at the top of the paths.Thomas H. Thomson Nature Trail aka Road Apples and Glendon Forest Trail were also already present throughout the early years.

I started building FL sometime after connecting the Flats and it was cause of seeing this going up the DVP on my way to my grandmama's every weekend. https://www.trailforks.com/photo/28007265/

Futher along the others as well QL connector and Dr Quads (though I didn't build the stunts along it or the bridges) You had to cross the muddy sections by logs or get a lil muddy. Getting to the big mud slide section at the north end was a lil challenge at the time.

I remember clearing up that section which looked like a dirt road and getting to the top where it didn't continue on and so had to make the trail as there was nothing to show if there ever was. I know Cyborg claims his order of trails built as.
"1. Taylor Creek park, Fruit loops, training loop, boomerang
2. Bayview to sewage plant
3. Sewage plant to parking lot
4. Parking lot to Overlea, Catalyst was built from there not by me.
5. Pottery Rd to start off Bayview (lol what?!?!)
6. East Don - same time as RA, we worked on each other's trails"

Which if he did start FL before the Ridge sections (lol) then why wouldn't there have been a trail along there (FL) that I would've seen and connected to. I hate to say it but but I would put Cyborg as being like Christopher Columbus discovering NA what was already there and just laying claim to it. No doubt adding to it but first to build...Nope!

Expect for Boomerang but I started that off FL and after noticed someone was building along it as well which I jumped ahead on for a couple sections and then went onto other trail builds. Maybe he thought it was RA or just a walking trail to lay claim on for mtbers like the Ridge...

RA was the first one to build the wooden bridges along Cata which was another trail I first blazed through sometime after Beaver Flats and many others. How does one build many trails? Rough em out and let the riders break it in (which the don has plenty of willing riders for) which is prob why some are claiming as they built the trail which is why I'll say building a jump/stunt along them doesn't make them the trail builder.

Till the next old Don fact session. *Oh I also never named my trails so names given are ones riders likely never contributed towards them.

Is the trail that goes straight up the hill right at the north end of Fruitloop an actual trail or is that just erosion?

Big fallen tree at south end of trail.. May 27 2025