It has come to my attention that several people were out there on Sunday (the same time they run the Cyclocross races) and were crossing the race-tape and walking up the road. This led to that and eventually Wick, the person that oversees ALL the trails at SST, made a visit to the flow-park.
I heard he was given quite a rude reception (as well as a cyclocross official) and was lied to as well. I'm not giving names as those people know who they are. Needless to say, if you want to be respected you must also respect.
More importantaly, Wick did a walkthru of the section and said everything is basically OK, but the large gap after the table has to go, as well as the other double after it along the trail.
IF THE GAP WAS NOT REMOVED THEN THE REMAINDER OF THE JUMPS WOULD BE PLOWED DOWN AS WELL.
So the bad news is that the large gap and subsequent jump following it have to go - the good news is that the rest of the section will remain intact...so long as there's nothing crazy-huge out there.
Yes, he saw the larger stepdown gap - I guess since it's not directly on the main trail and people that won't hit it know better, he must have figured he'd leave that one for us. That was cool of him.
In the future, if you are forced to interact with either a race official or a person that manages trails, I would seriously appreciate it if you talk to them in a respectful manner. Remember, what one person says can be taken as a direct reflection of how the dozens of other people are viewed.
As Wick has told my friends in the past, if you want to build the big-hit stuff, you know where it belongs - across the creek (aka - Softies).
Needless to say, if you come across us leveling the big gap below, don't get pissed at us - it's not our call on this other than we must cut a limb off to preserve the body.
We will likely leave it there until Tuesday for sentimental value/last hits, but will have to take it down after that.
I hope this doesn't cause a big to-do with the builders of that gap (wasn't us). All I know is myself and a few other people have done TOO much down there in the last year to have one poorly located jump ruin it all.
Any comments/complaints can be posted on this thread or just PM/e-mail me.
I heard he was given quite a rude reception (as well as a cyclocross official) and was lied to as well. I'm not giving names as those people know who they are. Needless to say, if you want to be respected you must also respect.
More importantaly, Wick did a walkthru of the section and said everything is basically OK, but the large gap after the table has to go, as well as the other double after it along the trail.
IF THE GAP WAS NOT REMOVED THEN THE REMAINDER OF THE JUMPS WOULD BE PLOWED DOWN AS WELL.
So the bad news is that the large gap and subsequent jump following it have to go - the good news is that the rest of the section will remain intact...so long as there's nothing crazy-huge out there.
Yes, he saw the larger stepdown gap - I guess since it's not directly on the main trail and people that won't hit it know better, he must have figured he'd leave that one for us. That was cool of him.
In the future, if you are forced to interact with either a race official or a person that manages trails, I would seriously appreciate it if you talk to them in a respectful manner. Remember, what one person says can be taken as a direct reflection of how the dozens of other people are viewed.
As Wick has told my friends in the past, if you want to build the big-hit stuff, you know where it belongs - across the creek (aka - Softies).
Needless to say, if you come across us leveling the big gap below, don't get pissed at us - it's not our call on this other than we must cut a limb off to preserve the body.
We will likely leave it there until Tuesday for sentimental value/last hits, but will have to take it down after that.
I hope this doesn't cause a big to-do with the builders of that gap (wasn't us). All I know is myself and a few other people have done TOO much down there in the last year to have one poorly located jump ruin it all.
Any comments/complaints can be posted on this thread or just PM/e-mail me.