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Posted by: nortonwhis

Nickel, Is construction on going thru the fall in creekside? I have some backyard loops up there that often cross the park, don't want to get in the way.

It is indeed. There's work happening in insomnia, around South park there's 3 new trails being worked on, and the possibility of sporadic tree felling pretty much anywhere.  

Our crew will be going to the end of the month. Not too sure how long the contractor team plan on going. 

I get the appeal for those living in the area. Your consideration is much appreciated.

Glad to hear it, it's been a challenging but satisfying summer.

Agreed. It's a creekside thing. "But I live over here" is a pretty common refrain when confronting poachers. 

My recent favorite is a guy who rocks up on active tree felling. I ask him how many closures he rode past to get to where he is, to which he replied "soooo many"

It would be sick if people stopped poaching closed trails. Lately this has been savage in Creekside with people riding through freshly reworked mud and full on Tree Felling Closures. Please just stop doing it. If you absolutely must ride out to creekside and all the trail options in front of you are closed, ride down the ski run of SFT. Stay off the closed trails. We're going to start pulling passes as someone is going to get seriously hurt, maybe us.

Re:f2b road gap, if you're comfortable with reasonable speed on the biggest at Joyride jump park, it's not crazy different in size. Make sure you're consistently landing perfectly composed though. The corner after the first f2b drop is basically immediate. The run in is chunky but it doesn't require a ton of speed. You could start from a stop at the armor rock in the run in and be fine with a bit of work. 

The second one usually requires a bit of pedaling unless you nail the corner and pump the rollers with finesse and power. The step up onto the operating table often requires a small brake tap. The speed is all over the place in there tbh, picking the features apart one at a time isn't the worst way to go.

Correct. Closing day is the 12th or 13th or whatever the Monday is.

Posted by: ReductiMat

Hey nickel, I’m guessing now is the time to give up all hopes on Crabs making its 2020 debut?

That seems likely tbh. No one has straight up said to me that crabs isn't opening but it seems silly to put the man hours into it that it needs at this point only to put it all to bed in just under a month. We've got lots to do anyways.

Kevin is correct. It's the operating table that changed. Landing and take off also got a rebuild to match. Rest of trail is unchanged.

It's about fire suppression in case of smokers throwing buts.

As for least ridden, cirque du soil,  renegade, the dirt merch end of after Atlantis, lower Joyride, the section of freight train below Crossroads, all strong candidates for this honor.