So I went for a ride late Sunday down one of the UC trails, and ran into what I can only assume were intended to be booby traps. This was one of the lesser-known trails and is more of a DH/FR trail. After one of the drops, someone had put several branches across the trail in the landing/transition. These were probably-make-you-eat-it-and-endo sized branches. There was nothing placed on the approach, so there was no way you would have known until it was too late if you hit the trail blind assuming nothing had changed. Thank god I had a slight screwup right before this drop and so I stopped before it. Before walking up to re-do it I walked out to the edge to check it out, and saw the branches. I cleared them out, and then further down found more, again on the landing side of a fairly committing double. As this is a trail that very few people know about, I don't know why someone would go halfway down the trail and then booby trap a couple stunts.
Anybody seen anything similar on other UC trails recently? I'd be cautious for the time being and scope out the usual jumps/stunts before hitting them.
Anybody seen anything similar on other UC trails recently? I'd be cautious for the time being and scope out the usual jumps/stunts before hitting them.
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cut down live trees and then nail them into other live trees in the process of building sketchy stunts that quickly deteriorate into death traps - actually booby traps themselves - and in the process create more reasons to kick all cyclists off the trails for good.
