For René Wildhaber, the special year 2020 is all about trail building. Due to the many event cancellations, the Flumserberg ambassador and BikerBerg co-developer was able to devote three months to the new construction and extension of the existing hiking trail from Flumserberg Tannenboden to Unterterzen. The newly created, challenging SwitzerlandMobility route "See-Abfahrt Flumserberg No. 469" was opened just in time for the summer vacations. The "Red Bull DIY" construction project and trail maintenance work continued seamlessly - with apprentices on the one hand and a civil defense deployment on the other.

"Build and ride" at the "Red Bull Do It Yourself"

The call to participate in the "Red Bull DIY" build project was very well received by the bike community. Five bike enthusiasts were selected from the numerous applications to work in the small group in a Covid-19-compliant manner. Over the course of three Saturdays and other individual assignments, they worked together to build a new trail section on the "RedFox" bike trail. "Building the trail section with the motivated DIY crew was a lot of fun and brought some surprises to light," enthuses René Wildhaber. On the occasion of the BikerFestival Flumserberg, the new trail section was opened on Saturday, August 22, 2020 with the maiden ride by René, the DIY crew and trial world champion Tom Oehler and has been available to all mountain bikers ever since. The result is a flowing section with several jumps and a crisp start.

Support from the mountain bike competence center

It was important for René Wildhaber to provide information on legal trail building in addition to the off-road construction tips. To this end, he invited the mountain bike competence center BikerNetzwerk to give a presentation. They provided input on legal route development and presented their current #Wägmacher project, which is committed to organizing the maintenance of mountain bike routes in the Heidiland vacation region.