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We're done with the mini-x (for now). We built 12 new berms, a big roller, and lessened the slope of the trail after the bridge that crosses the drainage ditch and takes you under Parmer Lane. We foucsed our efforts on the corners that were slowing everyone down. The biggest change is that long dusty right hand turn in the cedars before the roller section, you can now pedal as fast as you want through that section. I'm guessing everyone's times are going to drop by 30 seconds, it will be interesting to watch. Report back how much your times have dropped...fyi some of the berms will still need tweaking and to be ridden in.

Shout-out to Radiantm3 who came out and de-rocked/smoothed the new transition for the Drop Zone. This was no small task. Thank you for helping to get this ready to go!

Radiantm3, you de-rock!

People like you are why I like this place.

From a Niner RIP9, circa 2012 or so. Fox Float Factory, Kashima, remote lockout (I do not have the remote any more). I could sell it on eBay for $100-150 or so, but that would entail me getting off my butt, which is why it has been sitting for years. Name your price, I can be very reasonable at this point.

I think everyone has seen my rants about cutting/altering/fixing/etc trails. I am trying to not create another rant. But this need to be discussed among those who are here and want to keep using these trails. From my experience when I find and talk to these folks, they think they are doing good. They don't seem to understand what they are doing has a good chance of getting the trail closed. That would be PERMANENTLY closed to all users. Signs help a very little bit but they do help. After all - they think they are doing good so that sign does not apply to what they are doing. No matter how the sign is worded or what logo is shown - people ignore the signs. Two things seem to help. One is a 'polite conversation' between other users (mtb, moto, etc) about what could result from exactly what they are doing. The more other users that tell them that same thing the better. It takes time and numbers to convince them "the good" they are doing is really bad. Would everyone please help with those polite conversations??? The other thing that helps is game cameras and public shaming. Some people may have seen a few years ago when I posted such pictures on Facebook. Someone identified the person (by name). The result was he were told by a number of his friends that what he was doing was a problem. That problem stopped. Fortunately, I have not had to do that in years. Identifying the person and a private conversation is usually all it takes to correct. Unfortunately, the problems are getting worse again. We can blame it on whatever we want - e.g. more users, new users, uneducated users, entitled users, etc. Regardless of the cause, we need to correct it if we want to keep riding the trails. Even more unfortunate is the BCP staff just told me that they bought a bunch of new game cameras. I hope to catch and correct problems BEFORE the BCP staff does. So if you see game cameras on many local trails (not just CP), they may be mine or they may be the land manager. If we want to continue to use the trails, we should all be trying to play by "the rules". Just so people know, I was walking some 'bandit trails' with BCP staff to see if we can make them "official trails". The situation with the BCP staff has improved that much. It would not take much damage to reverse the improved relationship.

Told the cops that once Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk

You sure those are rocks? it reminds me of this creepy graveyard photo from RPR... But yeah, if I get out there soon enough, I'll throw some bones over the hill.