The Tip

We're staying at Buescher SP Wednesday and Thursday night this week. What are the chances of the RHR trails being ok to ride either day? 

Install the Austin 311 app. Take a picture of every camp every time and send it in right then, The more reports the better. 

The city IS removing camps, They just don't move as quickly as we would like of course.

Hopefully no conflicts.

On 10/18/2023 at 11:14 AM, The Tip said:

It is soon to be official. The stakeholders and the city officials have met and okayed the name to now be "Maxwell Trails". It will take awhile to be changed on all the different platforms.

https://www.facebook.com/MaxwellTrail

Did anyone ever try to educate him?

7 hours ago, AntonioGG said:

My first take is this is for clearing trail.  

Exactly. That is of course what it is for. Several people have observed what you have. The amazing thing to me is that the author of that article, that is merely reposting a viral video, is posting it in A BIKE MAGAZINE! Obviously that guy never does trail work. I give him a semi-pass though because lots more people watch "The Walking Dead" than do trail work.

4 hours ago, mack_turtle said:

Fast Friends on the south side next to I-35. It's also close to the far-east segments of SATN, so it could become a hub for rides there.

Rumor has it there is now a trail connection from the brewery to the Boggy Down trail. Pretty cool

On 7/14/2023 at 12:35 PM, WhoAmI said:

Admittedly, I don't go south of the river much and really only ride the GB when I do.  I've ridden some of the SATN trails once recently and some of it long ago before people started calling it SATN.  

 

As far as Trail Forks, I was looking at Google search results, and the only result that showed that name was Trail Forks. Also, I only use Trail Forks in places in which I'm unfamiliar with the trails.

 

It is soon to be official. The stakeholders and the city officials have met and okayed the name to now be "Maxwell Trails". It will take awhile to be changed on all the different platforms.

It's hard to miss the reroute and it is so minor it doesn't affect the recording of the Strava route. 

BTW, there are all sorts of sponsors for this. I don't know how much swag they are bringing but it's cool that Shimano, Giant, Santa Cruz, and Sram have all jumped on board. It's going to be fun

Dang, that's not good. Thanks for the heads up.

All social media and schedules were scoured for conflicts prior to this date being picked. Oh well, more coordination in the future hopefully.

I guess folks will have to decide if they want a single track mountain biking experience or an interesting road-dirt hybrid ride. Either way, winners all!

67 miles. Free. Fun. Shirts available. yada yada yada

Detailed info:

https://www.mtbatx.com/satnsocial2023

On 9/25/2023 at 6:59 PM, The Tip said:

At the top of Cairn Me Up at Glorieta, NM 

(experimenting with a different way to post a picture. Hope it works)

Trying yet ANOTHER way. We had to take our bikes to the room because the place we had to park was sketchy

 

I tried another way. Posted another one from our hotel room in Biloxi too. Can these be seen? Expand the quote to see the new attempt

11 hours ago, circuitbreaker said:

i can't see the pic.

Thanks for the feedback. I am so techtarded!

I think other folks beat you to it. 

When did Mother Nature get so darn sensitive anyway? I still haven't found a really compelling reason why they are so bad. Even the individual National Parks themselves cannot agree on a policy.

At the top of Cairn Me Up at Glorieta, NM 

(experimenting with a different way to post a picture. Hope it works)

Trying yet ANOTHER way. We had to take our bikes to the room because the place we had to park was sketchy

I can't remember exactly when it was. 20 years at least. But it was after reading about maybe the third road biker getting killed or injured on 360 by a car. "I'm not riding road anymore!"

I bought a rigid Trek at a pawn shop and started exploring the trails starting in Dick Nichols Park. Still ride them of course. There's a little bit more trail than there was back then. 😉

I drive to the ride when I a take the ice chest for post-ride dranking.

I drive to the ride a lot. 😁

I also drive to the ride if I'm going somewhere far and exotic, like Walnut.

But like Sluggo said, most of my SATN rides start about a block from my house.

I couldn't even see my own picture. sigh

Epocalypse.

Ha! They probably have been reading our Apocalypse threads all this time and came up with the name.

We should sue

If they develop that little sliver of land on the northeast corner of their tract, it will indeed impact the Danz Creek Cut Through. I can't imagine what they could do with it though,

25 acre lot. The "project site" is just in the middle. A church owned that piece before.

But even if they put up a fence it won't be the end of the world. 

31 minutes ago, AustinBike said:

My Black Box is full of wine.

cardboardeaux

That might be another interesting poll to ask what trail app you use.

I would guess the majority use Strava, then TrailForks. That guess is based on the small sampling of Crank and Drank riders.

It originally was called Slaughter Creek only, true. But now it's called Maxwell by those of us really in the know. This is to differentiate it from the multiple other trails in the SATN that are also named simply Slaughter Creek. There is a Slaughter Creek trail in Bauerle Ranch. There are the Slaughter Creek trails in Circle C park. And guess what the new multi-use trail in Mary Moore Searight is named? yup, "Slaughter Creek Trail Loop." 

And an irony about Maxwell Slaughter Creek is that you never see Slaughter Creek itself except at the entrance!

I'm not sure what TrailForks you were looking at. But the one I just checked had it properly named:

https://www.trailforks.com/trails/maxwell-slaughter-creek-trail/

3 hours ago, AntonioGG said:

 was being able to do something like the EB, 

Or Dragon Slayer, or SATN Social (end of October)

"Slaughter Creek" is one of the choices. I'm guessing that is referring to Maxwell Slaughter Creek? We regard that as part of the SATN. 

I ride SATN almost exclusivly because I'm in the middle of it and can pick and chose what experience I want for each ride. I have ridden all the other choices on the poll except Thumper and Spider. I will ride them eventually.

Someone posted somewhere that according to TrailForks Austin has over 1,000 miles of single track. I didn't doubt it all. I also saw a weighted map of the USA showing the density of trail. There were not many spots in the country with as much a concentration as we have. We are very lucky to have such a diversity and choice of trails.