The last person to post a picture from their last bike ride wins access to the white courtesy phone.
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This sign now greets you at every entrance to our intown ravine trail system.
Word from the chief builder is that permission has been revoked by both land owners due to liability concerns. It has been getting a lot more traffic in the last few years from all user types. Nobody has been seriously hurt that I am aware of.
This sucks.
I haven't posted photos in a while... I stopped riding with my phone since discovering I'd smashed the glass back earlier this summer. Riding packless has it's disadvantages...
But I rode my favourite loop last night with a couple of buddies, one of whom brought his along for the ride.
This is the tech stuff I love to ride:
there's a high-speed chundery straight that leads into a sweeping left hander which spits you out into this mess of washed out trail and roots. You have to either ride it super slow, and super fast, there is no in between. love it.
at the top, before dropping in
finishes at the lake. SUP has become real popular during COVID lock down.
But I rode my favourite loop last night with a couple of buddies, one of whom brought his along for the ride.
This is the tech stuff I love to ride:
there's a high-speed chundery straight that leads into a sweeping left hander which spits you out into this mess of washed out trail and roots. You have to either ride it super slow, and super fast, there is no in between. love it.
at the top, before dropping in
finishes at the lake. SUP has become real popular during COVID lock down.
Gatineau?
If that was around here there would be an outcry that the trail is too eroded and difficult for anyone to ride or hike.
Looks fun!
Yup. though it's officially a hiking-only trail. There's a very popular lookout just below that spot, and the NCC has poured tons of $ into "rehabilitating" the trail up to that point (i.e. lots of gravel to flatten things out). But it's just way too steep with too many creeks that cause runoff beyond that point to try. I think. With the NCC, I wouldn't be surprised if they gave it a shot though. Gravel all the trails seems to be their moto.Gatineau?
If that was around here there would be an outcry that the trail is too eroded and difficult for anyone to ride or hike.
Looks fun!
the lookout (not my picture, just a random one pulled off google images)
And they don't help with the overcrowding issues, by making it even more accessible.
Depending on the scale they also need heavy equipment to come in and ruin the vegetation. I witnessed a local town replace a piece of single track with a wide path a few years ago. The destruction that they caused was great...trees had to be removed, they dug two feet down through roots and vegetation to lay the foundation for the trail etc etc.
Washington has a recreational zero liability law. Landowners aren't responsible for any unpaid recreational activities on their property. Not only does this open up a lot of land for use, it allows for more fun and technical trails.View attachment 163087
This sign now greets you at every entrance to our intown ravine trail system.
Word from the chief builder is that permission has been revoked by both land owners due to liability concerns. It has been getting a lot more traffic in the last few years from all user types. Nobody has been seriously hurt that I am aware of.
This sucks.
This is why I carry along a ~$100 Canon cheapy P&S camera. Way less fragile than my phone, and when/if they die, they are so much cheaper and easier to replace.
le bike by le creek at the end of le ride in le best pisgah. we never seem to stop or session for in-ride pics out there...
Ahh that is a good spot. I remember they had some good food there too.
Grabbed Lil Man's bike and hit the BMX track for the first time in about 18 months. After the first run he said "I forgot how tiring this is."
That is part of the problem, but when a forest hits 118 degrees bad shit is going to happen.
Quite the contrasting photos.
- random berries
- head in a cooler
- trail sabotage
The trail sabotage is actually work to replace the boards. The old boards are two 4" boards, but in places one of the boards is missing, so you only have a 4", which is kind of fun to ride, except in other places there's a big hole in the middle or no boards at all like in the picture. They are also like ice in the wet right now. There was a big fiasco a year ago because some guy with a dog posted a video of himself on FB calling out all the "fatbikers" for making these boards to get above the swamp, leaving nails, supposedly one got into his dog or something, except, it's not fatbikers or even cyclists that's building it, it's a hiker that lives nearby. Guy basically made an ass of himself. The route is semi-popular in the summer, tons of roots everywhere and real slow going, but it's very popular in the winter, one of the main access points for the winter trails, and it backs up against a few houses, so those people regularly get out and hike the area.
The cooler has been at our gravity trails trailhead for a week. Someone said there was beers in it, there was not. It looks like someone dumped it, after fishing. It's illegal to dump fish in most places around here, especially if it's excess fish.
The berries are Red Currants. You know they are safe to eat because they are bright red. That right there is nature saying "this is safe to eat for sure!".
The cooler has been at our gravity trails trailhead for a week. Someone said there was beers in it, there was not. It looks like someone dumped it, after fishing. It's illegal to dump fish in most places around here, especially if it's excess fish.
The berries are Red Currants. You know they are safe to eat because they are bright red. That right there is nature saying "this is safe to eat for sure!".
Or "this right here will kill you!"
Red Baneberry | Actaea rubra
Red Baneberry (Actaea rubra) is a native wildflower that grows in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York and produces white flowers in spring and red berries in summer.
wildadirondacks.org
