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Hey Nickel,

What are the chances you and the rest of the trail crew will be in the GLC at some point during the last weekend? I would be glad to buy you guys a jug of beer for all the great work you have done this year.

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Bottom line is Alan has been the person working the longest and hardest to save trails on cypress.

The builders were told no structures.

The NNL builders have admitted they built the trail with no intention of it being allowed to remain so they obviously knew they were crossing the line.

The good thing that has come of this is it has provided the catalyst for the builders to form a group to preserve the riding experience on cypress.

Let's move forward now and support the new group and work with the land managers to save the cypress trails,

Again more confusion in communication!
They built it knowing the area was going to be developed and likely would become housing…….They went and spent countless hours building something that many riders had been wanting!

For those of you that don't ride Cypress, here's a photo of a structure "modified" by deadend.

This is what he did, knowing about "no structures" and being explicitly told that NNL needed to come off the radar.

This is what he thought was acceptable.

This is why what happened to NNL is no surprise.

You seem to be misleading the truth. The builders did go back up and tear that structure down along with the other in the background. Both we replaced with dirt to dirt………no different than other recently built stuff on Cypress. Builders were told that still wasn't good enough but was ok on other trails????? Oh the confusion!

Yes I can confirm NNL is dead! Was riding with a crew tonight and went to go into it but trail entrance was blocked with logs and sticks. All jumps, stunts, woodwork, have been removed. The powers that be did what they had to do I guess.

NNL trail has been sacrificed for the freedom of all others!!

In talking with the builders NNL will be reincarnated, but location will be known only to a selected few……..far far far away from Cypress Mountain! (happy now) Sorry no trails for all……

RippersLounge, the trail that is in question was built outside of a verbal agreement that there would be no new trails built on Cypress. Existing trails (including sex girl, roaches, tall can) are under negotiation. Please show your support for Cypress and attend the open house later this month. Efforts are under way to save existing trails. See Alan B’s post earlier in this thread for more info.

Open house info here:
http://westvancouver.ca/sites/default/files/dwv/assets/home-building-property/docs/major-projects/upper-lands/Upper%20Lands%20Study%20Review%20Newsletter.pdf

" the trail that is in question was built outside of a verbal agreement that there would be no new trails built on Cypress."

Are you sure about that??? Why did the builders keep changing trail to accommodate the LM then? I saw them working on the trail a number of times, re-doing their hard work in order to please the LM.

Is this the beginning of the end for the trails on Cypress?

Stunt shown in picuture doesn't even exist anymore. I am pretty sure the builders took it down in order to be accommodating to land manager.

My prediction is this trail will lose all its fun factor, then other trails owned by LM manager such as Sex Girl, Roaches, Tall Cans etc will follow and lose what has made them great rides for the experienced rider.

Get out the hard tails, Cypress is getting dumbed down! Congrats North Shore you've managed to go from being one of the most epic riding areas to an area catering the beginner to intermediate. Trails for All….BS!

Time to move somewhere out of the lower mainland where one can own a house and ride trails for all levels…. Enjoy Cypress, Mr. Owner of 3 million dollar house, that is empty because you don't live here, you are overseas!!

Why is BPP up at the entrance of Sex Girl anyways???? What happened to this:

"BPP has a right to develop below 1200'. Fortunately the bulk of the bike trails are above 1200' and on steep land. They would make valuable community concessions. This should be a win-win situation."

NSMBA AGM dude - were you there?

I wasn't able to make it to the AGM but would really like to see the meeting minutes and read what was discussed about Cypress.

Saturday Jan 18th Mint Conditions today on Cypress.
Awesome day on the hill today with riding crew. Trails (Mystery, Sex Girl, SOB, NNL, Quadmire, Wild Cherry and Roaches) were awesome. Only downer was seeing the hard work of some builders destroyed by British Properties……Shame BPP decided to tear up the work done on the new entrance to Sex Girl. In my opinion the new entrance is much safer than the original entrance which is extremely eroded. I guess a sign of things to come….. :cry:

Also word of advice to BPP, if you are going to tear up a trail, please do not leave giant boulders in the line creating a hazzard.