Clearly you didn't find the good trails in socal. Having ridden BOTH coasts AND the midwest (IL, WI, OH, MI), and some NZ and OZ, nothing comes anywhere near close to some of the trail in Socal, not even in the same league. Neither in length or physical difficulty, or technical difficulty. Although you are right on the xc/am of socal, f-ing sick AM trails too.after having lived in Cali for the last 13 years and moved to the midwest I can say im enjoying the east coast/midwest action way more.
Far more technical rock and root sections and people actually build big jumps and bike parks (which are seemingly non existant in so cali.) Cali is great for XC/AM kinda riding. I do miss Aliso Woods, Laguna Canyon and The San Juan trail, however just riding all the vertically challenged areas here in Ohio and PA I can say that ive had sooo much more fun. Jumping, table tops and stepups and big mossy, greasy rocks kill the loamy, less technical terrain that is most of Socals riding.
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