[the wop]

any of you monkeys been to winter park ? I'm heading there on sunday ,is it wort it or should I keep trucking to keystone or vail . I like keystone and vail
but I rode keystone alot last year and want to try some thing else. Is the treck over the pass worth it???

 

[Renegade]

I find winter park's lift assisted riding to be "xc oriented". They really don't have DH trails. There's a couple trails that are fast but they're simply a singletrack that traverses the slope; you can rip them at high speed, but they also collect a lot of tourists. There is a cool technical xc trail on the north side called mountain goat, but it's fairly short. and requires a LONG ride, including uphill, to get back to the lift.

So to answer your question, I would go to keystone or vail. Winter park is not DH riding.

 

[the wop]

good looking out man , my bike is heavy , uphills piss me off

 

[Renegade]

I hear ya, and like I said, it's not dh riding. No drops, no jumps, no steeps.

Not a bad place to take a mountain biking lady for a date though! :love:

 

[the wop]

my lady is hard corps. we rode jones park last weekend ,which by the trail guide is supposed to be DH , B.S. there was almost more uphill than down and the down was lame . took us forever to find the damn trail too . she was pissed at how pussy the trail was. love those mtnbike chicks

 

[axlvid23]

I found it to be fun on a slalom bike....but nothing there is worthy of more than 4 inches of travel. They did burm lots of the turns last year and like renegade said it's pretty fun to pin it...but I'd keep going to vail or keystone.

 

[T0mo]

well crap. After reading this, I don't think I'm gonna bother going.

 

[FunkMaster]

I heard they put a bunch of jumps on the only trail that really went downhill last year at Winter Park.

But I just got back from Keysone and it was incredible. Couldn't imagine better conditions. I'll be back tomorrow.

 

[Slick50]

hows that new bike treating ya

 

[axlvid23]

I heard they put a bunch of jumps on the only trail that really went downhill last year at Winter Park.

But I just got back from Keysone and it was incredible. Couldn't imagine better conditions. I'll be back tomorrow.

Define "jumps"......are they nice??!!