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Wow,
Thanks to the Park Rangers, SHARE, and the many others that put in their sweat and tears to make this trail open up.
During the ceremony, there were approximately 25 people listening to Ed, Gene?, and a SHARE member give a speech. The three of them cut the rrribbon and the trail was opened. Garret took the initiative and headed down first! I followed suit and ended up following one person behind Garret.
I brought my ContourHD camera so I have two videos going down Car Wreck. *The quality as usual is decreased when converting to vimeo and to a different file type. I just don't want people to base their opinion on the camera from my vids, haha.
Some highlights:
A guy on an ellsworth with a fox 40 climbing Mathis at least twice in a pace that is faster than most on trail bikes.
A fun technical trail being opened in Aliso!
Meeting some people and chatting at the bottom while watching people ride by just after they rode Car Wreck.
One of the more funny comments was something about how opening that trail didn't do much for him referring to that being the last time he was going to ride it.
As expected and said on previous threads, this trail caught a lot of people off gaurd. I don't think people were expectant of the nastier portions of the trail. It became quite crowded and I felt that people would stop at the wrong places. If you were riding a cyclocross FELT bike, I would like to thank you for standing far off to the side of the trail. This guy was so far off the side of the trail, I am surprised he had room for his bike that was behind him! Well, I guess the added people stopping on opposite sides of the trails from their friends located a bit lower just added a bit of technicality, haha. *disclaimer: I understand that some people just stopped at different sections because people in front of them were walking down the middle of the trail*
There are a couple of STR members in my videos, Garret and Kaliman (sp?)
Nice to ride with you guys.
Sorry to stick you with Youtube's current quality. I tried to convert to WMV to see if it was better than AVi but no luck. Any suggestions?
Hopefully vimeo quality will be better. I will upload those later.
*After the car, i'd suggest to stay high and to the right. If you watch both videos, you can see that the first time, I rode high and right and the tree never entered consciousness. However, in the second video, I had to put a foot down to avoid getting smacked because I took the lower left line. Also, I'd suggest staying high and left on the last rock garden. I kept going right, haha.
UPDATE: First video is now MPEG so the quality is much better
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[Youtube]0mZJOWfl2iI[/Youtube]
Thanks to the Park Rangers, SHARE, and the many others that put in their sweat and tears to make this trail open up.
During the ceremony, there were approximately 25 people listening to Ed, Gene?, and a SHARE member give a speech. The three of them cut the rrribbon and the trail was opened. Garret took the initiative and headed down first! I followed suit and ended up following one person behind Garret.
I brought my ContourHD camera so I have two videos going down Car Wreck. *The quality as usual is decreased when converting to vimeo and to a different file type. I just don't want people to base their opinion on the camera from my vids, haha.
Some highlights:
A guy on an ellsworth with a fox 40 climbing Mathis at least twice in a pace that is faster than most on trail bikes.
A fun technical trail being opened in Aliso!
Meeting some people and chatting at the bottom while watching people ride by just after they rode Car Wreck.
One of the more funny comments was something about how opening that trail didn't do much for him referring to that being the last time he was going to ride it.
As expected and said on previous threads, this trail caught a lot of people off gaurd. I don't think people were expectant of the nastier portions of the trail. It became quite crowded and I felt that people would stop at the wrong places. If you were riding a cyclocross FELT bike, I would like to thank you for standing far off to the side of the trail. This guy was so far off the side of the trail, I am surprised he had room for his bike that was behind him! Well, I guess the added people stopping on opposite sides of the trails from their friends located a bit lower just added a bit of technicality, haha. *disclaimer: I understand that some people just stopped at different sections because people in front of them were walking down the middle of the trail*
There are a couple of STR members in my videos, Garret and Kaliman (sp?)
Nice to ride with you guys.
Sorry to stick you with Youtube's current quality. I tried to convert to WMV to see if it was better than AVi but no luck. Any suggestions?
Hopefully vimeo quality will be better. I will upload those later.
*After the car, i'd suggest to stay high and to the right. If you watch both videos, you can see that the first time, I rode high and right and the tree never entered consciousness. However, in the second video, I had to put a foot down to avoid getting smacked because I took the lower left line. Also, I'd suggest staying high and left on the last rock garden. I kept going right, haha.
UPDATE: First video is now MPEG so the quality is much better
[Youtube]WrG7wRWpd0U[/Youtube]
[Youtube]0evozXhKpKc[/Youtube]
[Youtube]0mZJOWfl2iI[/Youtube]
. The steep rock garden at the top is definitely my favorite official feature at Aliso so far.
) and definitely a great workout.
