Please indulge me whilst I rant:
For the past few weeks, during my rides, I've spent time shoring up the trail out as ATT. Due to last years fire storms, those of you that ride ATT know that the place got hammered, badly. Most, if not all of the vegetation was burned away, making the trail a bit hard to figure out in some places, even for those that frequent the place.
Nontheless, there is so much evidence of people straightlining corners,ad-libbing, and creating pussy lines around the established ones. It's joke.
I've spent a considerable amount of time on each of my rides, trying to shore things up a bit. I've placed brush and burned out trees in turns where people are straightlining. I've placed boulders and stones along the trail so that the original line(s) can be seen. I've filled in rain ruts and shored up erosion damage as best I can (without tools).
I can understand if a rider is confused and just can't figure out the original lines, but what I saw yesterday just rubbed me the wrong way. On a section towards the end of the trail, someone had taken my huge pile of brush, which was covering the recently formed pussyline and had re-arranged it over on the original line, reopening the pussy line. It just illustrates laziness on some rider's parts.
The area from 4 corners down is mess as well. What was once some nice twisty singletrack is being transformed into a series of straightlined ruts.
Please don't ask me which portion of ATT this is. If you are familair with the trail, you know the section(s) that I'm refering to. "Fight Club" and all that.
Again, it needs to be said...If you can't ride it...F***ing walk it!
Rant off.
For the past few weeks, during my rides, I've spent time shoring up the trail out as ATT. Due to last years fire storms, those of you that ride ATT know that the place got hammered, badly. Most, if not all of the vegetation was burned away, making the trail a bit hard to figure out in some places, even for those that frequent the place.
Nontheless, there is so much evidence of people straightlining corners,ad-libbing, and creating pussy lines around the established ones. It's joke.
I've spent a considerable amount of time on each of my rides, trying to shore things up a bit. I've placed brush and burned out trees in turns where people are straightlining. I've placed boulders and stones along the trail so that the original line(s) can be seen. I've filled in rain ruts and shored up erosion damage as best I can (without tools).
I can understand if a rider is confused and just can't figure out the original lines, but what I saw yesterday just rubbed me the wrong way. On a section towards the end of the trail, someone had taken my huge pile of brush, which was covering the recently formed pussyline and had re-arranged it over on the original line, reopening the pussy line. It just illustrates laziness on some rider's parts.
The area from 4 corners down is mess as well. What was once some nice twisty singletrack is being transformed into a series of straightlined ruts.
Please don't ask me which portion of ATT this is. If you are familair with the trail, you know the section(s) that I'm refering to. "Fight Club" and all that.
Again, it needs to be said...If you can't ride it...F***ing walk it!
Rant off.