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06-02-2019, 08:22 PM #301
Been digging a lot around the house to have an option For the kids without getting in the car..
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06-03-2019, 01:21 AM #302
Not real trailwork but did a couple rides today to check out how overgrown the trails are. The answer - pretty overgrown on some side trails. Lots of rain plus warming temps have caused brush to explode. Lots of poison oak too. And some downed trees to cut out. Will be back to do some trimming!
Ride #2 at another area I babysit. Somewhat overgrown and only a little PO. I seem to spend a lot more time here undoing the stupid shit that other people do - b-lines around every trivial rock; shortcuts; cairns; sanitizing lines.
Not sure why cairns annoy me so much but I always remove them. This is a very obvious intersection unless your head is too far up your ass to notice all the tire tracks turning onto the trail.
Much better...
The dirt in this area is very erodable. Here the trail used to be level with the top of these two rocks but has been worn away to the point where its very hard to get through here. This is the very top of a steep switchback. Both rocks are embedded and won't budge so I'll probably build up a ramp/platform in between them to ride over. Everyone here seems to freak out at rocks so I'm sure that will be as big of a problem as the narrow squeeze.
Around the next corner people is a b-line that formed because the smooth rock line on the left is SO SCARY!!! I've been blocking and re-blocking the cheater line for a couple years. Going to get a group out and plunk a huge boulder on that line that can't be moved. I know, first world problems and I shouldn't care but people are so fucking lame here, every trivial rock has to have a go round. Fuck them....
The trail here went up and over this little roller on the left. The horror! Of course a line through the gap formed immediately. I've been meaning to plug it with a ramp so people are forced onto a rock roll.
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06-03-2019, 07:32 PM #303
Loam berms reconditioned
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06-05-2019, 01:44 PM #304
I see the same thing, constant ride arounds of rock features, to the point where the actual feature becomes unrideable because the detour has compressed the dirt so much you end up with a big ledge, instead of just a roll. But then the same thing seems to happen with every rooty section. But it is going to happen unless there is only one possible line, at least that is better than people doing things like removing the rocks.
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06-05-2019, 07:12 PM #305
...the joys of a big winter.
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06-07-2019, 10:06 PM #306
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06-08-2019, 12:15 AM #307
Saw this while reading another article someone posted, pretty funny. Trail runners actually do a fair amount of work around here (while claiming that they do a LOT of work)
https://www.outsideonline.com/239692...lazy-parasites
"Anna Zawisza, director of community relations and strategic partnership with Volunteers for Outdoor Colorado (VOC), the state’s oldest and largest organizer of trail crews, ranks trail-runner turnout right down there with public-trail-riding equestrians"
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06-21-2019, 10:04 AM #308
Cutting new trail above Golden
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06-21-2019, 10:50 AM #309User
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06-21-2019, 11:15 AM #310
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06-21-2019, 11:31 AM #311
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06-21-2019, 11:54 AM #312
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06-21-2019, 11:59 PM #313
Its always a good day to.build teeter totters
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06-22-2019, 05:23 AM #314Banned
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For the last 3 years, I've been working on stringing together a long (for Vermont) DH single track off the "Backside" of our little Mtn of Paine here in Nrthfld Vt. I used 1 short existing trail, and a section of fast, buff old road along the narrow ridge and added 3 more sections of primitive single track on natural benches and terraced terrain, as well as 2 climbing trails. Maybe 3-4 miles total trail added in addition to routine trail work on the other existing 15 miles of trail in town in that time. This one East Side project total hours for me maybe 250 hours.
As a comparison, for a pro crew to come build 3 miles of flow trail would cost $75,000 up to $150,000 dollars. The finished product would be less sustainable. The disturbance to the earth would be infinitely larger. The experience of riding it would be no more flowy, exciting, or quality, and likely far less interesting and engaging. My hourly would be looking pretty good on this project. I could under bid the pros by 2/3 and still make 100 bucks a hour...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyVBxYBT-6A&t=4s
I'm stoked with how it rides. I hate how many trail builders turn through the fall line. Riding long sections of side hill feel more natural to me on a bike, like surfing a wave. I also like to climb if I'm pedaling, and when I start to roll, I want to roll for as long as I can without pedaling, and with as little braking as possible. For me this is largely what Flow is. This clip is the last 2 sections of trail, about half the total run, 800 vert, 2 miles with basically no pedaling.
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06-22-2019, 09:02 AM #315
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06-22-2019, 09:54 AM #316
Looks fun Dave.
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06-22-2019, 09:59 AM #317
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06-22-2019, 09:14 PM #318Registered User
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06-23-2019, 06:29 AM #319Banned
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Nice Turnpike. Special kind of fun moving large rocks covered in in wet clay.
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06-23-2019, 08:49 AM #320Registered User
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06-23-2019, 11:51 PM #321
With a wet winter and now a couple months of warm temps the brush has exploded here in Socal. Including copious amounts of poison oak. I've spent numerous afternoons and evenings lately cutting back brush and spraying PO. There's nothing more satisfying than coming back a week or two later and seeing that stuff all shriveled up and dying.
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06-24-2019, 06:10 AM #322Banned
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We built this 10 years ago on an old road that went through a swamp. I think we came in at about 30 bucks a foot. Built a couple stone culverts and crushed tons of rock on site by hand. What did I learn on this project? You don't build a castle in a swamp. Looked great in the end.
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06-30-2019, 09:37 PM #323
Cut new reroute. Rode it
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07-01-2019, 09:34 AM #324
The first 1/3 of a mile is done, the kids are enjoying it.
Now for a pump track feature or 4 and some technical moves for me.www.dpsskis.com
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07-01-2019, 09:40 AM #325
Link isn't showing up on my computer, but will play on my phone...
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Fukt: a very small amount of snow.
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