I went to Sugar today with JeremyR and Brady frm Hcor and Seth from GA today. My intent was to clear the top trail we cut last season but I got there way late....and of course just rode the piss out of the DH course all day.
At day's end I thought of all the people who might show up to ride the new section and not even be able to find it...5 foot high weeds covered it from top to Donovan's dungeon. I talked myself into clearing it in the rain. A few dozen segments of heavy duty weed eater line later and 2.5 hours of my life given to charity....the top is now READY TO ROCK!...literally.
It isn't marked so if you go here is how to find it. Go to the VERY top (not 3/4) and take a right. There is a wooden "gate" facing down the first slope on your right. Ride through the gate and aim for the pile of rocks to your left next to the water gun....go. You'll hit rocks, roots and then a long sweeping open section that is fairly wide and go into the big drop.
After the drop you pop out on the slope and go IMMEDIATELY ACROSS the slope and UP into the woods and hit a hip that drops back over to the right.
After this little hip, go straight back across the slope and back into the woods, down a shallow bank and into a mellow woods section(couldn't rip the entire fallen tree out with my bare hands, so twisted it as far out of the way as possible.) Up over a little flat rock and pop out into the open air.
You'll be looking down a really, really big wide flat rock about 70 feet long and you just go down it to the slope. Squeeze real tight on the bars or you'll tattoo yourself at the bottom. Hang a right down the slope and on your left (about 50 yards) will be a crappy "trimmer" job with the weed eater into the Cartman drop...you'll say "EHHH!" Drop down the bank (this is a technical drop so wear your pads) and veering tight right and then through a lot of boulders, some more boulders, 1 big mammouth root and down a set of stairstep rocks right into the first 90 degree turn of Donovan's dungeon.
Then ride the rest of the course....
At day's end I thought of all the people who might show up to ride the new section and not even be able to find it...5 foot high weeds covered it from top to Donovan's dungeon. I talked myself into clearing it in the rain. A few dozen segments of heavy duty weed eater line later and 2.5 hours of my life given to charity....the top is now READY TO ROCK!...literally.
It isn't marked so if you go here is how to find it. Go to the VERY top (not 3/4) and take a right. There is a wooden "gate" facing down the first slope on your right. Ride through the gate and aim for the pile of rocks to your left next to the water gun....go. You'll hit rocks, roots and then a long sweeping open section that is fairly wide and go into the big drop.
After the drop you pop out on the slope and go IMMEDIATELY ACROSS the slope and UP into the woods and hit a hip that drops back over to the right.
After this little hip, go straight back across the slope and back into the woods, down a shallow bank and into a mellow woods section(couldn't rip the entire fallen tree out with my bare hands, so twisted it as far out of the way as possible.) Up over a little flat rock and pop out into the open air.
You'll be looking down a really, really big wide flat rock about 70 feet long and you just go down it to the slope. Squeeze real tight on the bars or you'll tattoo yourself at the bottom. Hang a right down the slope and on your left (about 50 yards) will be a crappy "trimmer" job with the weed eater into the Cartman drop...you'll say "EHHH!" Drop down the bank (this is a technical drop so wear your pads) and veering tight right and then through a lot of boulders, some more boulders, 1 big mammouth root and down a set of stairstep rocks right into the first 90 degree turn of Donovan's dungeon.
Then ride the rest of the course....
:devil: i loved that thing 
