J-drop traps...careful those who ride (post from MTBR)

[andino]

Rode J-drop Saturday midday and noticed many unusually organized piles of rocks as I decended. They didn't really interfere with the ride, because the trail is plenty wide for alternate lines.

Then, just above the switchbacks, I came upon a long wooden board completely blocking the trail at chest/head level. I was moving at a good clip, and might have hit it in a low light situation/night riding.

After I moved it, I noticed many other rocks purposely placed in the normal bike lines. Someone spent a good deal of time screwing with the trail, so please be careful.

please be careful those who ride this trail

 

[gurp13]

Where's this trail? OC? San Diego?

 

[dstepper]

Where's this trail? OC? San Diego?

Santa Monica Mountains.

 

[Pain Freak]

Santa Monica's. Great short run.

 

[dstepper]

Santa Monica's. Great short run.

Beat ya by a minute. You may ride faster, but I can type quicker.

 

[Pain Freak]

LOL, no argument there.

 

[FyrFytrRyn]

do be careful, i read a story somewhere about a year ago that stated some enviro. activists were putting sharkline across trails @ head or neck level, digging ditches and putting shaprened sticks in the ground neer some sabotaged corners. one moto-xer was injured. i dont remember where i read it though.

 

[crispy]

do be careful, i read a story somewhere about a year ago that stated some enviro. activists were putting sharkline across trails @ head or neck level, digging ditches and putting shaprened sticks in the ground neer some sabotaged corners. one moto-xer was injured. i dont remember where i read it though.

There is a place I went riding out of the 14 a couple months ago (motorcycles) and it is a designated OHV area, but as I was out there I noticed an area with a few jeeps and a few ranger trucks. Turns out there were some bonehead environmentalists up there planted some endangered plants in the area to try and get it shut down. What a joke!

From what you said though it sounds like they are destroying the land more than we do. I know when I am out on a trail, if I see trash I will pick it up and make the trail a better place after I leave it.

Between the developments buying out our land and demolishing our trails so people can have cool houses in the mountains and the environmentalists and the sierra club, we wont have anywhere to ride one of these days.