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Went to my first dig day today building legal trails and features that is.
Little Rock jump
Catch berm me and my dad built just us 2 we built 3 more berms and I put a lip into one of them just didn’t grab photos
and that berm I also built part of and did some work on the part I didn’t build. All around super fun day. Our little group built 5 berms total a rock jump and a lip into a berm/hip. Glad to be building some Legal trails other people can enjoy and not just me and my buddies. Super cool to meet older people who thought the stuff me and my friends have built or are building is cool and want and like that we helped them with their trails since non of them have really built jumps or berms.
looks like the wider model is regarded as the best but can’t find it in stock anywhere. Think 5.5in is wide enough? Looking to mainly just do a rough rake and ride kinda trail, some small corners. Dry ass dirt utah high elevation spruce forest kinda stuff, don’t think i’ll be dealing with a ton of roots
looks like the wider model is regarded as the best but can’t find it in stock anywhere. Think 5.5in is wide enough? Looking to mainly just do a rough rake and ride kinda trail, some small corners. Dry ass dirt utah high elevation spruce forest kinda stuff, don’t think i’ll be dealing with a ton of roots
Oh dude used one of those today. And I think it better than the wider ones. And it cuts out roots just as well as the wider ones. Also a lot lighter. Would recommend
BiffbarfThats sick bro can't wait to ride my brakes through those berms
Lol trail clones, just like the people helping. Tbh it was kinda cool having them help build considering they ride the trails the most and are the main group of members in the MTB association. They were willing to learn about how this stuffs made and help me with berms, jumps, rollers etc
WoFlowzWent to my first dig day today building legal trails and features that is.
Little Rock jump
Catch berm me and my dad built just us 2 we built 3 more berms and I put a lip into one of them just didn’t grab photos
and that berm I also built part of and did some work on the part I didn’t build. All around super fun day. Our little group built 5 berms total a rock jump and a lip into a berm/hip. Glad to be building some Legal trails other people can enjoy and not just me and my buddies. Super cool to meet older people who thought the stuff me and my friends have built or are building is cool and want and like that we helped them with their trails since non of them have really built jumps or berms.
sick shit man. How long is the trail and what’s the vert
switchlip2Love to see people building public trails instead of trails just for them and their friends. Major props dawg
Yeah I’m rly tryna get involved here all our legal trails tend to be flat or mostly uphill XC trails. Or janky af 20 yearold tech trails. Tryna get some more flow around here and steeps and jumps
looks like the wider model is regarded as the best but can’t find it in stock anywhere. Think 5.5in is wide enough? Looking to mainly just do a rough rake and ride kinda trail, some small corners. Dry ass dirt utah high elevation spruce forest kinda stuff, don’t think i’ll be dealing with a ton of roots
ThegenericskierSuper stoked for this track, we had a pro racer come by and scout where we want the trail. Gonna be hand cut loam with a sick ass rock chute
Damn sounds so fun if I’m ever down that way I am so hitting there and snowshoe
ThegenericskierSuper stoked for this track, we had a pro racer come by and scout where we want the trail. Gonna be hand cut loam with a sick ass rock chute
Dude knows his stuff, I know he helped design the snowshoe wc track and that turned out sick, it’ll be cool to see how your track turns out! Looks like you have some cool terrain to work with
ski_salmon69Dude knows his stuff, I know he helped design the snowshoe wc track and that turned out sick, it’ll be cool to see how your track turns out! Looks like you have some cool terrain to work with
It’s a shame he didn’t want to use our black run for the race even though it’s a classic race track, it’s stupid gnarled with 1-2 feet rock steps and steep ass rock gardens
ThegenericskierBest part about my mountain is the bike park is only 3 years old so it’s still unknown with very short lift lines
sugar is quite underrated. Hopefully will be going to app state for school in a year or 2 so that will be my local. Will def help yall dig whatever there. Would love to help improve the local scene
clindblomskiersugar is quite underrated. Hopefully will be going to app state for school in a year or 2 so that will be my local. Will def help yall dig whatever there. Would love to help improve the local scene
Southeast is the best region for DH in the country
clindblomskierThis is categorically true because we got tired of having shitty trails so everyone made really good trails and now its great
Would rather ride in SE than any other region of country maybe other than PNW
The naturally terrain of the region makes it superior as well with the combination of dedicated trail crews. Especially in the above 4000ft parts in the Appalachians
clindblomskiersugar is quite underrated. Hopefully will be going to app state for school in a year or 2 so that will be my local. Will def help yall dig whatever there. Would love to help improve the local scene
That’s super sick! Right now we’re full with trail crew, but our bike park is stupid underrated
ski_salmon69I wish more people would build multi line trails(not strava lines, more like dh track shit). Me and my buddy worked on one today and it's fun af.
Know some guys who did this at HV so about a 600-700ft of very decents and so glad these dudes showed me them cause they are so fuckin fun
For anyone who’s built a drop, how do you go about where to put a landing? I’ve built like smaller ones before that didn’t really need a landing, but i’m working on one that’s a little bigger and I don’t wanna fuck it up and die on the first hit
ski_salmon69For anyone who’s built a drop, how do you go about where to put a landing? I’ve built like smaller ones before that didn’t really need a landing, but i’m working on one that’s a little bigger and I don’t wanna fuck it up and die on the first hit
just fuckin send dude thats how it always is but hitting a lot of shit helps and it helps you to know how much speed u need or how much a lip will pop u helps
ski_salmon69ok big guy, you can hit it first after i put the landing 10ft too far
All id say about where u put the landing is it's all relative to how fast you're gonna be going off the drop, hence his comment on learning trig. cooking into that hit? put it far out. just want to roll off? put it close in.
ski_salmon69ok big guy, you can hit it first after i put the landing 10ft too far
Get your buddy to ride into the drop at trail speed and stop on the lip. Then throw a rock off the drop at approximately the same speed they was going. Build landing where rock lands. Or just have common sense
I love trail building! Sad that I had to stop because work takes up all my summer. These are some digs Ive done in the past
I was shut down from working these 2 trails, but the work still shows 7 years later. If you are in Nelson in the summer, go ride Slingshot and Smiling Budda on Mt Station. Although my hands havent been on the trail for a while, the lines are still smooth as butter. It was awesome to see a trail go from a forgotten trail to the most popular trail on the mountain from the work Ive put in without any help.
