New trails and stunts for Twenty-Ten
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a hotel with a pool and a bar
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plattekill isnt a place for built up highland style trails/drops/ramps berms here and there are really fun, but no keep it how it is! maybe just a lil better trail marking system, but then again. there are SOOOOOOOOoo many its almost impossible.
Just have the bar upstairs opened in the summer? Yes? No?
Only in the rain. Otherwise the parking lot is good.
Thee should definitely be more floozies and alcohol.
I will endeavor to oblige.
I will endeavor to oblige.
Resurrect some of the old-school, cornhole clenching, oh-sh*t factor, fall line trails that made the place infamous. I remember accidentally going down some crazy-steep chutes and rockgardens that were overgrown in 2004. Now they are all but completley gone (Senior, a little location help here since you are the godfather of Platty). Then throw in some man-made TLC to keep it flowing all the way to the bottom. I like the DS course on the triple side. Keep it rollable for all categories but make the doubles and step-up/step-down a lot bigger and more define for the pro/ex riders. All in all its a great course as is, nice and fast, easy to spectate, and fun,fun,fun!
the new freeride section is pretty dope. I guess adding something like that course. the Maxxis drop used to be the bomb, but now looks like trash...would like to see that back in action. Everything has such a natural flow, but I would add better transitions on some of the drops, if at all possible. and YES, the bar on the second floor should be open with $3 beers - long over due with those long HOT summer days
I like Plattekill the way it is... But some general TLC to older trails would go a long way. Also, new features on the mountain are always fun, but they never seem to out live the classics.
Showers.... they can be as ghetto as the bathroom stalls and run off of ice cold well water, as long as they don't smell like diesel.
Bar open, yes.
Showers.... they can be as ghetto as the bathroom stalls and run off of ice cold well water, as long as they don't smell like diesel.
Bar open, yes.
There are so many over grown trails on the triple side. They need to be cleared up and maintained through out the summer. There have been so many trails lost to the the platty jungle. The new stuff is great but I would like to keep the platty trails pretty natural and not turned into diablo
More triple side days, and therefore trails. MARKED beginner friendly trails. Would be nice to have easy trails to take people down or just go WFO on, but not have to search around for. Trail markings and maps are always good, too.
A trail with a ton of pocket berms would be sweet. I heart drifting teh shailz.
Repeat ad nauseum!
the head man of Delta House will have a new position as head of mountain biking/trail building next year...there are great things to come in 2010!
I would love to see more triple side trails cleared out. I know they are there but just unrideable at this point. By what i saw today riding there is going to be a LOT of clearing that is going to have to happen next spring even on just the trails that have been used this year.
so you going to come out and help next year?
I plan on it. Would be happy to commit a long weekend to getting the mountain ready or building new stuff.
we'll get details to a build weekend soon.
any chance of getting buffed style trail a la alpine and anything at highland?
I loves me some berms at highland, but since the mountain is flat I get tired of pedaling. Some pumpitude would be swell, maybe right in the middle so it's accessible by both peaks.
I loves me some berms at highland, but since the mountain is flat I get tired of pedaling. Some pumpitude would be swell, maybe right in the middle so it's accessible by both peaks.
ill throw the idea at Nolan, but im not sure if thats the direction he wants to go.....but i could be wrong.
im heading up next weekend for a final ride....gotta go big
I say no buffed trails at platty. There needs to be rocks and vert berms.
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I will make it to the work weekend in the spring for sure just like the last two year. Then we will see after that.
yeah its kinda impossible to have those buff trails at pkill, but thats not what pkill is about. they are fun but not pkill like. the small berms are awesome and fun but yeah not pkill
whoa ladies, I'm talking about making plattekill MORE fun. Having an extra trail will not make plattekill LESS fun.
Those trails are great for warming up your arms, your brakes, and just having some fun. If anyone can tell me the section that already exists midway down the mountain (large "landing drop" into a small table with berms on either side is NOT fun, then I'll be really surprised. Yeah it's not a paved trail like some trails at highland, but it doesn't have to be to be fun and fast.
Why wouldn't you want more people coming to platty and more options available?
I actually think well built wooden stunts is not what platty is about, but you built them anyways. Usually everything there looks like it'll not only break you when you fall, but also give you tetanus.
Those trails are great for warming up your arms, your brakes, and just having some fun. If anyone can tell me the section that already exists midway down the mountain (large "landing drop" into a small table with berms on either side is NOT fun, then I'll be really surprised. Yeah it's not a paved trail like some trails at highland, but it doesn't have to be to be fun and fast.
Why wouldn't you want more people coming to platty and more options available?
I actually think well built wooden stunts is not what platty is about, but you built them anyways. Usually everything there looks like it'll not only break you when you fall, but also give you tetanus.
yeah no doubt they are a blast. It would be fun as hell to have one like that. Just lotta work w/ a mini excavator and some skills
What makes platty great is single tract next to tree,roots and shale. The last thing needed is tearing up the mountain and turning in to Diablo. Platty needs the old trails cleaned up and maintained through out the summer. The place has been open for almost 20 years there are allot of trails grown over which just need to need cleared out and used. The last thing platty needs is a buffed style trail a la alpine. Plattys a mountain for big boys with big bikes.
Im with sandwich, I will personally be building a tight bermy jump line. Unfortunatley the triple side will accomodate this style trail . 90% of the trail will be hand built. As far as the existing trails, All the race coarses from this year will be fine tuned a little further. Any trail that gets re- cut will be thought out so not to have to many trails in 1 area. Upkeep on all those trails are impossible for the amount of riders that show and ride these trails. Platty can and will have anything I can dream up and get done. keep the ideas rolling. More info. sandwich....I'll make it the way you like it.
how do you mean, exactly? Only accessible by the triple chair?
I think a trail like that could be fun and it doesn't have to lose plattekill's natural character (ie rocky death). It would be great if it could be right in the middle, with lines leading to it from either peak.
I think the strongest suggestion I have is better marked trail, both in name and location, and actual trail. Lots of trails braid, which I think can be fun (read: choose your own adventure) but I think having a well-indicated main line could benefit newcomers and old crusties alike. I have no clue how to get to the trail with all the new drops on it, but somehow I can manage to get there, sometimes. For people who don't have it memorized, being able to get there would be an asset.
Also, a good way to get trail workers is to offer free passes for a later date if they pitch in for a full day. Worked for me for highland, would be happy to do the same for platty, but I might get a season's pass this year. If you organize a thread, I'm happy to offer local bostonites a ride out to help with the trailbuilding.
who is this again?
Sandwich:
we do have a trail work weekend at the beginning of the year and Laz does give out lift tix for future dates.
yeah something simple as painting the tree's w/ different colors/stripes of colors to mark trails would be helpful. I too have trouble getting to the double side "jump" run sometimes and few other classics even tho i've been there for 10years.. just so many trails to keep track of!
Who are you?
i would have thought it was obvious
step downz and pocket berms with drifty corners.
drifting is a riders responsibility, not the corner's.
oooo burn!drifting is a riders responsibility, not the corner's.
I would suggest removing all things on the mountain that hurt when you run into them.
Line the drops with pretty girls to catch me when I eat Sh!t.
Maybe fashion some trails for those of us that like a few beers...something that doesn't require any kind of use of reflexes, or skill in my instance.
Instructions posted on a tree for riding off of that wood thing next tot he Maxxis drop into the old 4x course.
Seriously, I don't like anything man made, but I would like to see some kind of progressive table top jumps to play on and practice on without the risk of planting myself on the backside of the landing.
A few years ago they had that on the bunny slope which is probably where i belong anyway.
Line the drops with pretty girls to catch me when I eat Sh!t.
Maybe fashion some trails for those of us that like a few beers...something that doesn't require any kind of use of reflexes, or skill in my instance.
Instructions posted on a tree for riding off of that wood thing next tot he Maxxis drop into the old 4x course.
Seriously, I don't like anything man made, but I would like to see some kind of progressive table top jumps to play on and practice on without the risk of planting myself on the backside of the landing.
A few years ago they had that on the bunny slope which is probably where i belong anyway.
trail marking for sure the first time there every trail looked the same, like dhjunkie said i still have a hard time finding some trails.
make the jumps on the double side BIGGER
make the jumps on the double side BIGGER
there was someone on RM that made us a whole bunch of killer signs for the more popular trails...hopefully theyll be wiling to make up some more of them.