From Space Mountain to Bunny Mountain

[Abui]

Originally Posted by kanga

Here's your trailworkers/sanitizers on hidden pond and space mountain:

http://www.smmtc.org/Maintenance_pix.htm, predominantly a hiking and backpacking group.

Pics of their work on Space Mountain, even showing how they removed the rocks:

http://www.venturacountytrails.org/R...Mtn/_Page.html

This is what happens when hikers do trailwork with no mountain bikers present. CORBA wasn't involved in these ones.

When we (CORBA and other mountain bike groups) have been out there doing trailwork alongside hikers (I have yet to meet an equestrian doing trailwork...doesn't mean they're not out there), we get to explain that keeping the trail technical and a little on the rough side actually slows down mountain bikes making it safer for the hikers, and more fun for the mountain bikes.

Most of them, after working alongside us "get it." We also gain a lot of respect by being present at the trailwork.

We should all realize that multi-use trails can have any number of different groups working on them, and by working with each other, we all get to learn about the needs and concerns of the other groups.

So come out and do trailwork... be seen as a mountain biker and represent!

WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND HE IS US!

The WTF trail workers revealed.
(read the photo caption)

The MTB site is North Ranch

If you want to make comments join their egroup on Yahoo.

[FoShizzle]

Originally Posted by kanga

Here's your trailworkers/sanitizers on hidden pond and space mountain:

http://www.smmtc.org/Maintenance_pix.htm, predominantly a hiking and backpacking group.

Pics of their work on Space Mountain, even showing how they removed the rocks:

http://www.venturacountytrails.org/R...Mtn/_Page.html

This is what happens when hikers do trailwork with no mountain bikers present. CORBA wasn't involved in these ones.

When we (CORBA and other mountain bike groups) have been out there doing trailwork alongside hikers (I have yet to meet an equestrian doing trailwork...doesn't mean they're not out there), we get to explain that keeping the trail technical and a little on the rough side actually slows down mountain bikes making it safer for the hikers, and more fun for the mountain bikes.

Most of them, after working alongside us "get it." We also gain a lot of respect by being present at the trailwork.

We should all realize that multi-use trails can have any number of different groups working on them, and by working with each other, we all get to learn about the needs and concerns of the other groups.

So come out and do trailwork... be seen as a mountain biker and represent!

complete friggin retards...seriously. hikers suck ass, all of them...i dont care if i am politically incorrect but all hikers can kiss my ass and all equestrians should have their horses sent to the glue factory

[DBD]

Ok, I gotta comment, that is just bad and wrong. I went and looked at the pics of the work and ...

In the first pic I post they say the water bar is a hazard...... well ok, maybe to the numskull who does not pay attention to where he/she is going but with the line of sight heading towards the log there is more then enough time to go around WITHOUT going of the trail.


Now in these three pics, what the heck is he thinking?
The guy did all this work to ride the trail of a small non hazardous root of some sort that was not even ON the trail and in the process create a place in the slop for the dirt to give way soon as the rain starts again.




There are other examples as well. What I do not get, I have ridden with the NRMB a couple times at Chesboro and they had NO problems clearing the more technical sections. I have also crossed paths with them up at Hummingbird and Chumash and they ride those with out problem so why they would sanitize the trail that bad is beyond me. Granted not all the workers are part of NRMB but still, someone should have said something.