This trail is AWESOME. On our way down to Ranch Style in Grand Junction we stopped by Snowmass to pick up our photo buddy Seth Beckton Photo. We only had a short while to check out the local trail scene, and this trail was literally in his backyard. Two miles of easy climb then a 5 mile decent of awesomeness.
It was ‘Elk Migratory’ season so the second half was closed which is another handful of miles descending towards the highway into Aspen. High speed single track that will be sure to make you second guess how fast your going while goal posting though aspen trees. Crazy good flow, steep berms and amazing scenery made this the ride of the entire trip… and we rode Fruita and Grand Junction as well. And, be sure to stay carb loaded:
If your ever find yourself in Snowmass and enjoy high speed single track shred, check out this trail.
Trail Review: Snowmass ‘Rim Trail’
Dirt Rag Magazine Photo!
I had no clue about this half page spread in Dirt Rag Magazine for an article on Valmont Bike Park. Stoked!!
Brandon Semenuk – From Outer Space
This is shenanigans. Up box manual to tail whip? One of the most dialed MTB dudes!
Tuesday race series begins at Boulder’s Valmont Bike Park – Boulder Daily Camera
Check Out the full article HERE. via DailyCamera
“In terms of gravity racing, downhill, dual slalom, there’s not much on the Front Range,” said Joey Schusler, a pro mountain biker and member of the University of Colorado Cycling Team who won the national collegiate downhill and dual slalom races in the fall.
So it’s nice that a dual slalom series will start up at the Valmont Bike Park on Tuesday, Schusler said.
For the next four Tuesdays, the city and Boulder Mountainbike Alliance will host a new series of evening races on the park’s dual slalom course, a pair of tracks that wind down from the hill in the center of the park.
Gooning
HA! The bar has just been raised for bar hump goon riding. Pic from Mike Giese.
Annnnddd… that was Unfortunate
One of the few instances where the full face didn’t help very much.
Kyle Rosencrans & DJ Brandt – Brakeless
Those Grand Junction kids are at it again! Go Kart gappers!
JettMTB Commercial – Rider Proven
The other day Nate Adams and I headed up to Maxwell for a quick film session for a JettMTB commercial. Hopefully you should see this footage in commercial form on VitalMTB soon. This line is pretty insane and the footage doesn’t quite capture the shear gnar in and over this gap. If you ride Maxwell this is the rock garden by the chain link fence. The takeoff is the flat, slightly up sloped rock. The landing is the down sloped flat rock about 15ft away. The rocks leading in make this really hard to line up, at least for myself… Nate had no problem cranking this line out about 10 times early in the morning.
Valmont Quad Video
I’m in the process of learning to fly one of these bad boys and use it just like this guy. Probably closer and more reckless however. Flying GoPro videos soon!
Trail Review: Hewlett Boondocking
The other day, Jimmy and I set out on a quasi boondocking mission up Hewlett Gulch. For reasons neither of us can comprehend, we both have never rode this trail. It’s amazingly fun, fast and technical all in one. There is some really great riding and scenery out there but signage is nonexistent. Hopefully this will help some people as Z helped me finding the trail loop. On the way up, there is a new trail being built that bypasses the gnar decent section. If you or anyone you know is involved in the trail construction: bank the turns slightly (berm it) with a water diversion roller or two exiting… you would increase fun and flow by about 10 fold… and it would be 100% to IMBA trail construction/erosion standards… just sayin’.
Overall, the trail should be awesome if you prefer to run the loop clockwise and climb this section. The new segment joins just before the T intersection, where it can get interesting. Descend down from it and you do the lower loop. However if you stay high, you continue west to a ridge line meadow. It look me two outings to Hewlett to figure this out, but just after the ridge line meadow and another slight climb turn right on what looks to be an animal trail. You should come across a sketchy abandoned mine just off the trail. Continue past it towards the mountain to the north. There is a trail but it’s pretty damn faint and you’ll feel like a tracker trying to follow it. Head straight up (literally) some weird ancient bulldozed trail to the top of the north hill. 
Here you descend continuing north. Here is where it gets tricky and we messed up: just after a sharp left hand turn, stop. If you encounter what looks to be some awesome terrain for jumps or a gate, you went too far. As you can see on the GPS track, we messed up twice and had to retrace our steps, this section being one of them. At this turn you follow the ridge, eventually ending up at the top of the small loop. 
We accidentally descended into the gully, which should be avoided in hind sight. 
I don’t know if there is a trail in this section, there should be some semblance of one I assume. We just boondocked and kept a close eye on cactus which are everywhere. Overall a great loop and you still get the fun high speed clockwise descent segment. 
Ronnie and Canard
So if you don’t moto, this won’t be nearly as funny. However, we can all recognize the goon. Here is a newer one with Ronnie Mac. Quite possibly the scariest nose dive death rev. My brain has been trained to fear that over rev noise and I cringe every time he does it, expecting to see a gnarly crash! Trey Canard still has the golden video (with over a million views), quite possibly pulling the EXACT opposite body movement in every situation required to ride moto well. Enjoy.
History Lesson Kids!
This is where we came from. No, it didn’t start with Brandon Semenuk or Aaron Gwin. This has been a long 14 years to come from this reto flick to where we are now. Write a few things down: 1)Shaun Palmer was doing the backyard 50cc track thing way before ’50 Nuts’and was cool. 2) Back then doing a 360 and a flip at a dirt jump comp was insane. No, not at the same time… on different jumps. 3) Steve Peat has been the SHIT this whole time, that’s pretty epic in it’s own right. 4) You think AllOut Productions is awesome for having a bunch of T n’ A shots, this film straight up has boobs.
Exploring Poudre Canyon 2
I see a theme developing here… boondocking and exploring on the MTB’s!
Pastrana to NASCAR!
Any of the die hard Nitro Circus fans will recognize this awesome youtube comment, “The Foam Pit Knew his Future… No Right Turn!”