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Ronan, Greg and I(Bill) converted that fallen tree to a nice send/roll feature a couple weeks ago. It’s pretty sweet. Now working on a berm right after it to help out.

The 2 drops pictured to the west are still there, they have no individual names. Basket is at the very beginning of Upper Picnic (the only 2 way area of Upper Picnic). There is a carsonite post that even reads "Basket Drop". It's the perpendicular, not angled drop - most people roll it. Basket Drop is the first thing I hit in the video...and I ride it the correct way, dropping it. Excuse all the other bullshit in the video...I was in that experimental video phase. Basket and both Upper Picnic Drops, as well of Big Ravine...

If any of you are skiers or snowboarders you know that little groms hitting features doesn't count.

Yep... I think you and I both fooling have dropped Cru on our wife's comfort REI bikes, LOL. I rode all of Picnic including Basket, Big Ravine, Beer, and both Upper Picnic drops on my wife's teal comfort bike with 80mm fork. Novara Flirt FTW...look at that "passive dropper post" I did have to replace her seat and pedals.

Today I did a ride in Penitente Canyon near Del Norte.

I always just launch straight down the middle and go up the same way. I have used the cheater line up, exactly once. For me, the timing gets me, I tend to mash and bash vs being light and lifty. When I slow down and go lighter I tend to make it.

Are there plans to extend picnic x all the way to 183 and then to ymca? Seems like there is room for more single track to be threaded along the creek. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I've always been pretty decent about resisting peer pressure, but this is why I'm even more tentative these days. Note that the left x-ray is the front view, not a side view: There are days when I wake up in the morning with the first few steps hurt a bit, and every time I hit one of the screws on something, it's a good reminder. I was luckier than Berm Peak Seth in that I did not have ligament or nerve damage though.

That's just trail names...Greg is wanting map with feature names. NOTE: Josh's Caltopo includes planned, but not actual trails as well as closed stuff - Picnic XX, Secret Squirrel(rogue, but actual), Meg option, and of course Up and Over (aka 5.0) is closed.

My 6yo grandson just points his snowboard downhill, goes as fast as he can and tries a "jump" or a "trick" and eats it half the time. I would be a bloody, broken mass of bone chips and meat halfway down the first run of the day if I did it his way.

I often say that I must've been made of rubber as a kid. Sometimes I look back on the stupid things we did and absolutely cringe... we used to ride our freestyle bikes at SHSU, before "street riding" was a thing, launching off 10' staircases on super stiff 20" 48 spoke wheels and steel BMX frames with zero flex... a "huck to flat" that I wouldn't even consider on 8" travel DH bike now, makes my whole body hurt just thinking about it... but we didn't even think twice, it's just what we did. Even further back, pre-teens, it was all about launching higher, HIGHER!... and we crashed a lot, but I don't remember anyone getting hurt... at least not badly. I remember one time, we were at my neighbor's house, and their (2 brothers) dad was building a detached garage, and the slab sat for some time. I remember it being about shoulder high at the back, so at 10-ish years old, probably about 4' high, with a gentle slope down a couple more feet to 2 or 3 stacked railroad ties, then a flat back yard. The driveway sloped down from the street, and we'd get as much speed as we could to try to clear the ties... after a few cases and face plants, we realized that it wasn't going to work. So, our solution, instead of going in to play Atari, was to build a ~12" ramp at the edge of the slab to boost us a few more feet high for a longer arc... We sent it over and over again, until we were bored with it, and decided that wasn't enough... we drug their rickety wood picnic table probably 20-30' past the landing (rural neighborhood, big yards), then propped up some plywood on some boards, so that we could launch them consecutively... that was a hoot, until one of the brothers cracked his '80 Diamondback Pro frame, THEN it was time for Atari... My Mongoose held up fine though 😁 And I wonder why I have so many joint problems now... 🤔

I once saw a kid from a ski class of 7-8yos get completely taken out by an out-of-control snowboarder, took his legs right out from him and laid him out on his back. The ski teacher rushed over, checked for broken bones while the kid was still crying, whipped out a baggie of gummy bears and gave him one. He shut up, stood up and skied away like it never happened.

Good suggestion! I’ll start getting that together. There is much to say.

By the way, the temperature at the start of yesterday’s ride was just under 50 degrees and was right at 60 when I finished.

I’m an old XC weenie and I’ve done basket and Cru Jones on my old cyclocross bike, both when I was around 42. 46 now. Basket was wet when I did it, lol. Cru really is nothing on a full suspension rig. You got that!

I see why you compared it to Sponge Bob. The top 3 or so feet are very much like SB, but the runout is better at Cru Jones. BTW, watching kids do stuff does not give me confidence. I get more confidence watching old XC weenies like me do stuff. Even better is just following someone I trust. That's how finally did basket drop (rolled it though).

See that AntonioGG, shots fired.

Cody's youngster hitting it should give you confidence.

Mulligan Exit = Cru Jones? I've never ridden it, even though my brain says it's OK, other body parts say NOPE.

After finally breaking free of the gravitational pull of the Gunnison area we drifted south. We had seen a dirt road on the state highway map that went from west of Saguache to Lake City (30 or 40 miles). It took some time to find it but it was a magical drive creeping along in the van. Amazing scenery! Saw only a few people, one who was bike packing a segment of the Colorado Trail. Saw a moose and her two calves on the drive.

Near Creede, Colorado.