Posted by: cooperquinn
Nearly all Cypress routes involve some version of snakes and ladders with the road if you want to ride eastside and westside trails. You can get a little bit creative and off the map to make it work, but the new climber isn't a panacea. But it is a nice addition - for better or worse I imagine the majority of traffic on it will be ebikes, but that's probably true of more trails than I want to admit.
Anyway, it's been a very long time coming, and I'm excited to see the final bridge go in. The trail looks awesome, and while perhaps in the minority I'm gonna definitely use it for eastside laps, and as part of bigger Cypress routes.
Yup, Cyps has never been a convenient mtn to do laps on unless you're shuttling with multiples vehicles, like Shuttlewhore party style. I've found that it works great shuttling the first lap, climbing the second and then retrieve or do a third lap if you have a third vehicle. And of course it's all dependent on the rack situation. With how steep Cypress is and the way the road is, pedaling multiple laps on both sides of the mtn is a pita.