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Shuttle Day at Blackrock in Falls City, OR.

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Turbo Monkey
Apr 2, 2004
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Everyone loves Falls City except the push up. They are having a fundraiser shuttle day this coming Saturday with $20 or $25 for all day shuttles to the top. Any of you who have been wanting to come down, this is your opportunity.

I'm gonna try to make it down and probably stay at my bro's house in Salem.

Here's the website http://brmba.org/

Info from their site:
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Shuttle day fundraiser at Black Rock trails (August 26th)

When: Saturday, August 26th from 9am - 6pm

Where: Black Rock trails (Falls City, OR) - driving directions

Cost: $25 all-day ticket or $5 per trip - if you PRE-REGISTER at Santiam Bicycle then all-day ticket is discounted to $20.

Lunch? TracE will be cookin up gourmet lunch featuring smoked BBQ burgers at Basic Training. Pre-sale lunch ticket is $8 (or day of event is $11) buy tickets at Santiam Bicycle.

It's all about the DOWNHILL (some trails offer 3 miles of single-track)! Bring your bike. Bring your gear. Shuttles to top will run from Basic Training area to near top of Mt Brown - for your descent choose from easy Banzai Downhill, intermediate Sickter Gnar, or advanced Granny's Kitchen or Sunday Stroll trails.
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Hope to see you there!
Tim
 
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Turbo Monkey
Apr 2, 2004
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Hillsboro
I think it was around three months ago that they added several new trails and stunts. I haven't seen them yet. I'm eager to get up there before the weather gets bad.
 
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Chimp
Aug 4, 2004
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Salem, Oregon
I think in the last 4 months the only significant building has been on the new section of Bonzai Downhill - its a flow trail with low jumps and big banked corners. Not much has been happening because the dirt is too dry to pack and chainsaws were banned. If you've been out there since the ET jump and HALO drop were finished, then there's not much new. But, we're fast approaching the end of the chainsaw ban and there's a bunch of projects just waiting to roll.

For example:
  • The last section of Granny's Kitchen is roughed out, including the log bridge over the stream bed so it will see serious work.
  • We have an excavator lined up to fill the remaining box jumps on Brake Check which is a nasty piece of trail thats sure to be popular. The excavator will also be used to finish at least one and possibly two new road gaps on Granny's Kitchen
  • The Porpoise line in BT will be getting lefthand and righthand hip-to-wall jumps. BT will also be getting a skinny-drop-to-rock-garden-to-skinny-drop-to-gap-jump section.
  • The long skinny line out of BT that runs along Bonzai Downhill is likely to progress real quick with another 100+ feet of wood already in the right place and just needing chainsaws to put it together.
  • The upper two sections of Bonzai Downhill are already flagged and approved and just waiting on build season; expect to see them get cut quickly and then peppered with banked corners and jumps/drops all winter long. If you like the new rerouted section in the middle of Bonzai then you're going to love seeing the same type of trail only 3 times as long! When done it'll start at the top of Mt Brown and run all the way down to the orange gate - with stunts and banked corners throughout
 
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Turbo Monkey
Apr 2, 2004
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Hillsboro
I think it's been less than 4 months since I last rode there (I hope). They hadn't finished the extension of Sunday stroll or the rest of Dual Slalom or Lower Grannies Kitchen with the new drops and road gaps. There is also the new part of Bonzai.

I'm really gonna try to ride Saturday, even though my left thumb is still messed up from Crankworx.
 
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bikegrrl

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Seattle...but hopefully BC soon!
oddblob said:
Not much has been happening because the dirt is too dry to pack and chainsaws were banned.
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How dry? Wash-out-on-berms dry? That's the way SST is, and I know Oregon has been way hotter. Just wondering what to expect if I head down.

Is Santiam doing any more shuttle days going into this fall?
 
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Chimp
Aug 4, 2004
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Salem, Oregon
Blackrock tends not to get washy when its hot and dry. There may be an occasional place where a trail was cut late in the spring and didn't get ridden in good before summer, but the trails tend to just get hard in the summer. Some of the new banked corners on Bonzai may have some loose, but because the banks are so big it just filters down to the inside - and since they're banked you can't wash out on them anyway.

It the Black Rock Mountain Bike Association that does the shuttle days out there. I know tomorrow is a shuttle day, and its possible they might do one more this fall. Even without the shuttling it's well worth the trip out there.
 
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