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Rebuilding the Manpon

Zach Dank

Zach Dank

Turbo Monkey
Jun 28, 2005
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Some our favorite trails got straight destroyed by the Winter storms this year. Usually we see a little snow up there for a few weeks. This year there was a glacier up there for 3 or 4 months.
When the snow melted, it took the jumps with it. They got mangled.
Anyways, we've been digging our a$ses off to get them rolling again.
Almost there.









 
ZHendo

ZHendo

Turbo Monkey
Oct 29, 2006
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works of art, as usual. i honestly don't know how you do it, i've never seen jumps as pretty as yours.
 
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Miller

Chimp
Sep 17, 2006
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wow, that place is amazing, do you do it all with shovels? how long on average does it take you for one takeoff/lander, with how many people??
 
Castle

Castle

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Jun 10, 2002
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gorgeous! keep it up, I'm gonna get out tomorrow, it's finally stopped getting into freezing temps at night here...
 
Zach Dank

Zach Dank

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Jun 28, 2005
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Cru Jones said:
God what I wouldn't give for some better dirt around here.
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I feel ya man. I would have abandoned Skeleton after 1 day of digging.
I've spent too many days at spots with bad dirt. Now when i start digging in some bad dirt, i pack it up and move on as fast as i got there. Just not worth it.
 
Fool

Fool

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Sep 10, 2001
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Wow. (plus this to fullfill the required amount of letters in order to allow me to submit a post to this thread)
 
manhattanprjkt83

manhattanprjkt83

Rusty Trombone
Jul 10, 2003
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those are unreal, i love when you post pics of that spot. It's so funny how much atmosphere and vibe around trails can really make them. Lines in so cal just dont do it for me...but dark wooded and in this case red dirt with scrub pines make that place totally mystical...

I am definitely of the opinion that oregon/norcal has the best dirt for trails, with the PA/MD area here in the east a close second. Our dirt here in Pittsburgh is pretty damn good we were actually digging a spot yesterday...Just a nearby residential line we built up...
 

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kidwoo

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Cru Jones said:
Afraid not. But, they are super fycking sick. Lookin' good Z! God what I wouldn't give for some better dirt around here.

Here's some more dirt art..



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Those look pretty and all but I have to wonder how they hold up in rain....especially when they're new. That place is in the UK right? All those vertical walls just can't be that stable once the piles get saturated with water. I guess that could be some nasty clay...... It just doesn't seem practical to build jumps like that unless you want to rebuild them every five minutes until they get truly setup like concrete. I'd love the see how they were shaped initially.
 
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VPFreerider

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Jan 5, 2006
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I think what I like most about your trails are that it really shows how you pay just as much attention to detail when shaping the top, sides and back of your trails as you do on shaping the face of the jump itself :)

Pure beauty...

-matt
 
FR4life.

FR4life.

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Nov 2, 2004
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The Bay
definately some of the nicest dirt I have seen in a long time. I'd love to ride them. they look pretty pitted, does it flood between the jumps? thats the problem I have with my local trails, which I am also in the process of rebuilding.
 
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Strauss

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Aug 22, 2007
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kidwoo said:
Those look pretty and all but I have to wonder how they hold up in rain....especially when they're new. That place is in the UK right? All those vertical walls just can't be that stable once the piles get saturated with water. I guess that could be some nasty clay...... It just doesn't seem practical to build jumps like that unless you want to rebuild them every five minutes until they get truly setup like concrete. I'd love the see how they were shaped initially.
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Yes but the steep walls use less dirt - more for other jumps yes?
 
sittingduck

sittingduck

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Jun 22, 2007
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FR4life. said:
definately some of the nicest dirt I have seen in a long time. I'd love to ride them. they look pretty pitted, does it flood between the jumps? thats the problem I have with my local trails, which I am also in the process of rebuilding.
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If you live where it rains a lot, drainage issues MUST be addressed. If you can't trench the water to lower ground, you have to dig a trench to a basin for water to be bailed from.
 
FR4life.

FR4life.

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sittingduck said:
If you live where it rains a lot, drainage issues MUST be addressed. If you can't trench the water to lower ground, you have to dig a trench to a basin for water to be bailed from.
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That's exactly what I've been doing. it works ok, but the real shame is there is a small cement creek right next to the jumps (which we use for water) and the edge of it is just barely too high to trench into. although the dirt we have is really nice, when it is wet it is probably the stickiest, heaviest crap ever. which is also a big reason our jumps fall apart in the winter. you can't walk 10 feet without having 20lbs of mud on your shoes, and you can dig, but the dirt stays stuck to your shovel. the dirt has just become dry enough to work with again, I just need to haul ass and get the jumps ready for summer when the creek dries up.
 
kidwoo

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Strauss said:
Yes but the steep walls use less dirt - more for other jumps yes?
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I don't think I've ever 'run out of dirt' anywhere I've ever built....;)


The structural integrity is more important than finding dirt most places.

That spot obviously looks like it has been there a while so it must be working........I just can't relate to whatever kind of dirt they have there.
 
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grom-dom

Turbo Monkey
Jun 27, 2006
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Chapel Thrill
sooooooo good

i just started on a line in front of my house. gonna be 2 speed rolelrs, a left berm, bowled out a bit, step up straight, step up left hip, wallride or quarter, then a couple more jumps. should be sick.
 
Windowlicker

Windowlicker

Monkey
Dec 27, 2007
443
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Santa Cruz
MY TURN!!
welcome to Sasquatch Canyon

the wallride ^

the first hip ^ [our trail builder boss man Jackson is a beast!]

the second jump ^

the tree hip^

front view of the second ^

berm after the second hip ^

first and second after the rain ^

the landing of the second hip ^

just for your entertainment that is A-Lacko on a BMX 360ing the 5th at PO earlier this year.
 
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