Trail Rumors

Jakers
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"Trail Rumors" - Coined by @paddydigital
Recommended by @Ahab 

Forum Rules:
no locations
just pictures
lesser known, secret, unsanctioned,

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1/23/2024 9:22am

dontdoomthespot

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owl-x
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1/23/2024 10:04am

Showing up early here to say this is a bad idea. Great idea for me--so I'll be checking back in often--but bad idea overall.  

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sspomer
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1/23/2024 10:32am

1999

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ctbiker888
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1/23/2024 11:38am
 

bring it back. 

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Jakers
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1/23/2024 12:01pm

Voreis blowing up all the trail secrets 25 years ago

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Dave_Camp
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1/23/2024 12:11pm

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Jacob_Richard
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1/23/2024 1:07pm
Dave_Camp wrote:

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looks like a place you could slip and slide a lot at

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ebruner
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1/23/2024 3:20pm

These were taken a few miles away from each other, on different trails.

Many miles away

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owl-x
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1/23/2024 3:32pm
ctbiker888 wrote:
  bring it back. 
 

bring it back. 

so this is amazing 

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wydopen
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1/23/2024 3:38pm

No longer rideable and it never got totally finished but it was fun. Old go pro's sucked though..

Gets gnarly around 3:30 Way steeper than it looks..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbSLMUg2bqg

 

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Scrub
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1/23/2024 4:17pm

Warning

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Big Bird
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1/23/2024 4:38pm
Scrub wrote:

Warning

The world needs more signs like this.

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Big Bird
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1/23/2024 4:39pm

Can I nominate All of the Fun Trails in Sant Cruz County?

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1/23/2024 6:34pm

I blew it and missed this before starting the Trinidad, Colorado thread. Happy to let it die. Long live Trail Rumors. 

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StudBeefpile
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1/23/2024 7:46pm

How much of this is just an issue because N. America just sucks ass for building trails?  Sure, no one wants to ride rutted clapped out trails.  But I feel the larger issue is everyone is scared shitless that their favorite trail that doesn't exist is going to get bulldozed.

 

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mfoga
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How much of this is just an issue because N. America just sucks ass for building trails?  Sure, no one wants to ride rutted clapped out...

How much of this is just an issue because N. America just sucks ass for building trails?  Sure, no one wants to ride rutted clapped out trails.  But I feel the larger issue is everyone is scared shitless that their favorite trail that doesn't exist is going to get bulldozed.

 

Or the opposite a bunch of butt hurt riders when they find they are loosing trails that were never legal and those who knew always knew they would disappear when they were ready to use the land.  

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Jakers
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1/25/2024 11:28am

trail rumors
no locations
just pictures

Jakers
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1/25/2024 11:32am

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Big Bird
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2/3/2024 3:31pm

I have no photos. Some Aptos lads made a video. But there's this place. It's in the middle of nowhere. The greater of two gas station exits in the Central Valley. From the top of the trail, for 360 degrees, there is not a tree in sight. Just rolling grassy hills with a small canyon at the bottom which you should generally stop for. Unless you are said Lads from Aptos. The trail is a lot of fun, but the (Trigger warning!) off trail LOAM is amazing. Sorry, it's not loam. It's this super dusty crust over super grippy dirt that will hold you until your pedals or bars dragging stop you. There are high concentrations of gypsum in the soil (I've found some massive crystals while riding there.) that seem to have a fondness for tire rubber. Hands down the best tire grip that I've ever experienced. Bone dry hero dirt. Thank you Manny.

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smelly
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2/3/2024 3:40pm

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Falcon
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2/6/2024 1:59pm Edited Date/Time 2/6/2024 1:59pm
Jakers wrote:

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It doesn't seem like there's much danger of having a bunch of trail poachers show up there. 

Jakers
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2/21/2024 9:36pm

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