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Agreed, but in the case of this article I feel like it is about optics and location.  An abandoned line that turns into a watercourse is unsightly, and visible to many users due to the popularity of the North Shore mountains.  People are more likely to react to something in front of them rather than something far off, perhaps because they believe they can change it.  In terms of location, the easily accessible nearby forest is a much more scarce resource than a far off place, so people react more significantly to changes locally.

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Different strokes for different folks.  The vast majority of trails on the shore absolutely require jank removal and dumbing down as they progress from loamer to established trail or they can lose their fun factor and become downright dangerous.  And even with some smoothing the trails are still chunky and technical AF. 

I do see the appeal of the authors style of fat biking though.  Sometimes when I'm building I find someones personal little offshoot janker line that has basically no work done and would be best ridden on a hardtail or fat bike.  These are trails that consist of meandering forest floor with a few sticks kicked out of the way.  A slower, different way to experience the forest, and their jankiness generally prevents them from becoming popular.

Nice, that was better than expected! Good job

"After an encounter with a legendary Whistler cougar"

Anybody know what band plays that song?

Jeez I hope I qualify to ride crabapple hahaha

Sick bike

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best hardtail evar

My mistake, it's 10*.  PNW Range carbon.  I have the aluminum bar on my Wilson and like the shape.  Interested in the vibration damping aspect.

Just bought a 800mm wide 38mm rise bar with 12* backsweep.  Love that there are choices like that for us weirdos now.  Look at Dakota Norton, fast AF with 50mm of spacers underneath his bars!  Maybe we should all try riding higher.  Never know how it's gonna feel until you try it (on an actual trail, not the parking lot).

50% off all 5.10's on the Adidas website, I just ordered a fresh pair of Impacts.

Nate is a good kid and has very supportive parents, they came out to a trail day this year and I've seen them around Cypress hill numerous times.  What a shredder too!

Clarification: the fewer publicly visible unsanctioned trails on trailforks or equivalent, the better.  Yes, there are some safeguards in place on trailforks to hide trails.  But there are now some trails that are visible to the public that have not been there until recently, as the previously posted screenshot shows.

The fewer unsanctioned trails on trailforks or equivalent platform the better.  Maybe land managers know of every trail, maybe they don't, I don't think that's the most important factor here.  The problem with new trails being publicized is multifaceted.  

One, the builder may not have the capacity to maintain the trail if it gets discovered by the masses. There are organizations that help maintain sanctioned trails, so they are often better suited to handling traffic. Unsanctioned, not so much. And shit-kicked trails don't help anyone. 

Two, not everyone likes biking and new bike trails. If members of the public start seeing a bunch of new trails popping up, they are more likely to complain to land managers. Public complaints can force land managers hands. It depends on their tolerance to these trails. 

So who decides what should be on trailforks? The nuts and bolts answer is the trailforks region admin decides. Someone uploads a trail, it is approved, then it's posted. If the builder wants it removed, admin is generally responsive to that. Sometimes not, especially if it is a well used trail. 

Land managers are strategic about maps and only include trails they want the public to know about and use. So the answer to your question about public maps is it depends on who the audience is. The map at the trestle bridge shows the three sanctioned trails and nothing else, which is completely understandable. 

Like it or not unsanctioned trails will always exist. Even in hiking areas there are "community paths" not on maps. Many sanctioned bike trails started as unsanctioned. If you are morally opposed to these trails, no one is forcing you to use them. It is better that they stay under the radar though, and if you are passionate about legitimizing trails and increasing access the best way to go about that is through your local trail advocacy group because "blowing the spot" online could have the opposite effect. It's akin to shouting a secret that wasn't yours to tell in the first place.

Just checked Trailforks and can confirm there are some trails that have appeared on the map that shouldn't be there.  "Sheriff of Seymour" should reach out to Trevor to have them removed.

I think high rise bars make a lot of sense over stacking spacers under your stem because high rise bars preserve your reach.  The only downside it they look weird!

I had the opposite experience recently.  I overforked my Devinci Spartan HP and intentionally left the steer tube long.  The extra 10mm of travel and spacer under the stem felt a little weird in the parking lot and on flat/climb trails, but gave me so much more confident on gnarly steeps and fast DH trails.  Now the bike feels close to the setup of my Wilson DH bike, which I prefer.  If I were riding lower gradient trails I would experiment with a lower stack though as the extra reach and lower bars would help with cornering.

Absolutely, thanks mates.  I rode on Wednesday as well and am super satisfied with how all the DH trails are running this year.  It's a culmination of ten years of consistent effort and the last two years have helped realize the vision with the extra labour available.  Things are running great overall and hopefully we get a bit of rain soon because the new stuff on lower meats is getting a bit chewed up, but that's par for the course for a DH track.  There's still some work to be done on upper and middle meats, no big changes but a bit of effort here and there to keep the line choice and improve flow.  The next public trail day is the weekend following this one, sign up here.