Ok so i read this in one of the posts in the DH forum and i was just wonderin. I hear all this stuff about this place called vietnam (not the country) that is like heaven for riding. and i never had any idea where it was. but then i read that its at n* or somethin? can someone clarify so i dont feel like the idiot that i am please...
Vietnam?
- Thread starter DroppinaNorco
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I've heard a section at the base of Karpiel called vietnam, cause a war vet said it was soo bumpy that holding onto the bars felt like holding on to a 50 cal machine gun. Kinda weird if you ask me...but I can't wait til Northstar 
There is a section of N* called that, and as far as why...........yojimborace's answer sounds good enough to me.
yea it was named for the 50 cal ness feel. and if you didnt know, its right under the lift goin to the top, right before the drop/shore
ok well thats good to know. yea the place i was thinkin of was the place near boston i think. i read about it in some magazine i guess. thanks
wait, are you saying that vietnam is another name for STD. or is vietnam closer to the bottom by K-12?
so vietnam is on dogbone?
so you hit the slabs and continue down right next to the lift. Vietnam is after you take the right instead of going straight/left down. Yes, it's on dogbone...
I can't remember where I took this photo, but I think it's vietnam or just right below it...
I can't remember where I took this photo, but I think it's vietnam or just right below it...
That portion is sweet. I miss that place. May need to take a trip sometime...
I am proud to say that both vietnam and STD own me.
Ok the real story is close but no cigar. I was riding without my armor one day and bailed on what at the time was second waterfall(no real name). Well I came in lost it, thought I had it, but should have just bailed off at the top. But waited until I had A LOT of speed before hitting the eject button. Landed on my back and F'ed it all up. Got to Vista Chair pulled up my shirt and asked some older guy "hey is this bad"? He said "ouch that looks like an old Nam injury I have". And that was that.yojimborace said:I've heard a section at the base of Karpiel called vietnam, cause a war vet said it was soo bumpy that holding onto the bars felt like holding on to a 50 cal machine gun. Kinda weird if you ask me...but I can't wait til Northstar
Oh, I read it somewhere lol...
Still have the scares!!!
I walk vietnam.
And I'm not afraid to admit it. The picture does it no justice. It's super steep ( or at least it seemed so last season ). I remember riding five feet of it and telling myself "it's not wourth it".
So really, I don't walk it. I just avoid it.
And I'm not afraid to admit it. The picture does it no justice. It's super steep ( or at least it seemed so last season ). I remember riding five feet of it and telling myself "it's not wourth it".
So really, I don't walk it. I just avoid it.
heh that reminds of this one time I saw this guy break his wrist on it. It was in one of the races there, anyway the fall climaxed with his head sandwiched between a rock and his lower body/bike. He jumped right back on, but then fell again after doing that drop after you cross the dirt road.
-Ryan
-Ryan
Did he break his wrist from the first fall?
Because riding the rest of that with a broken wrist is insane.
Because riding the rest of that with a broken wrist is insane.
I rode Vietnam two days after cutting the cast off my left wrist. I only had the cast on for a week, cut it off and rode. I ended up falling pretty bad on that same wrist on Vietnam. Didn't feel too good. I am not afraid to say I don't ride that trail anymore. If I do, I take it really sloooooow. Oh man, I'm gunna have nightmares tonight. That is if my my new baby boy doesn't keep me up all night.
I am not afraid to say I don't ride that trail anymore. If I do, I take it really sloooooow. Oh man, I'm gunna have nightmares tonight. That is if my my new baby boy doesn't keep me up all night.
Viet-Nam has owned me thus far.
It's my last demon on the mountain. This year it dies.
It's my last demon on the mountain. This year it dies.
yea I gotta get that down if I'm gonna be racing Jr X.
-Ryan
-Ryan