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Osprey is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Is this really a blue trail? Felt more like a green. Does anyoe see a trail on the right? I missed a optional side black trail.
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Middle Ridge is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's berm turns, doubles and table top jumps.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
This is the green entrance trail for the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. Everyone rides this trail to start unless they are going directly to Bunker Hill. With about 25 ft of vertical change, it's a pretty flat trail. To get m...
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The Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. The system has several downhill flow trails ranging from green to black. They has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. They are not too long so you could do a few laps on them in day.<...
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This is an intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has sweet berms, nice jumps and fun rocks. It starts at the same trail junction as Lucky 13, which also runs into Bluejay so a run down ...
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This is a short intermediate downhill flow trail in the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It splits off and rejoins the Nighthawk green downhill trail. The video is from the start to the bottom of the downhill so beginning a...
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This is a downhill flow trail int the Northwoods Trails system north of Hot Springs, Arkansas. It has nice berms and several styles of jumps on this trail including optional gap jumps. It was not hard to follow even with all the leaves. It runs in...
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The Fossil Flats trail is called the birthplace of Arkansas Mountain Biking in 1989. That is the loop that you start and end on. This ride also included Sawmill Loop, All You Can Eat, Racer's Hill, We Can Take, Sparky and Orville. Devil's Den Stat...
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We Can Take It is a cross-country trail in Devils Den Arkansas State Park. It goes along the side of a ridge above other trails. There are lots of spots where you are biking along a rock wall on one side of the trail. Theres also a creek crossing ...
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This is the downhill half of the Philips Ridge & Canyon Loop which is near Teton Pass in Wyoming. The start has some of the connector trails between Philips Ridge and Philips Canyon trails. The climb up was a good workout, but the downhill was wor...
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The Slaughter Pen trail system has tons of fun trails in Bentonville, Arkansas. Many are directional with both flow and tech downhill trails. Walmart has donated a lot of money to the trails in Bentonville so theres lots of fun bridges and other f...
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Dragon Scales shares a start with Loam Wolf from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. I rode Loam Wolf as well, but I didn't get video of it.
Trail Links:
- Trailforks
- MTB Project
Lombard is the climbing trail to return to the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. Since this is a climb, the video is a time-lapse. Near the top there is a detour due to trail work.
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Wildfire is a short beginner downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas.
This is from my first trip to Bentonville and all the videos in this set are my first time down the trail...
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Catapult is an intermediate downhill flow trail starting from the Castle in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has lots of wood bridges going over the other trails that also start from the castle. You don't have to get air...
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Schroen Train is a downhill flow trail in the Slaughter Pen trail system of Bentonville, Arkansas. It has berms, wood bridges and a rocky tech section. This video is showing the downhill part. There's another part that is the climb up to a juncti...
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This is a full trail video of Tech Gnar in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a black trail with a couple of wood features.
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- MTB Project
- Trailforks
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This is a full trail video of Walter's Whistler in the Slaughter Pen trails. It starts at the Tech Hub just north of the Flow Hub. It's a green trail with some berms that's good as a warmup and lets you see some of the other trails coming down fro...
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These three trails start at the Flow Hub in the Slaughter Pen Trail system. They are on the south side in the phase 3 area. All three are short, taking about a minute each to ride down. The first one, Boo Boo, is full of berms and small jumps. The...
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Coler MTB Preserve has a mix of levels and types of trails. On the north side there's a few downhill trails starting from The Hub which are the ones at the start of the video. Then I made my way to the other side of the preserve to Thunder Dome du...
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Thunder Dome Trail
Thunder Dome is a dual slalom race track in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is on the opposite side of the park from the other trail videos from this trip.
Trail Link: Trailforks
Music: Motion Array - Power Up
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Fire Line is a blue flow trail with lots of jumps that starts at the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is the last of 5 videos I recorded when starting from the hub. It was my first time riding all of them.
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Rock Solid is a double black tech trail in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This video shows most of the trail; the end of the trail was wet and slippery this day. 
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This is a full trail video, but it's been sped up (aka I had the Gopro on the wrong mode). I wish I could bike that fast. I decided to make a video of it anyway and mix it with some short funny video music.
Rock Soft is a tech trail that...
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Rock Salad Video Thumbnail
Rock Salad is a tech trail that starts on the climbing trail (Pedal Assist) up to the hub in the Coler Mountain Bike Preserve. This is a full trail video, but I did cut out a couple spots where my tires slipped on wet rocks and I stopped.
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Cease and Desist Trail Vdeo
Cease and Desist is a jump trail starting at the Coler Preserve Mountain Bike Preserve Hub. This is one of many videos from a trip to Bentonville, Arkansas.
Naturita Ridge
Desert riding going up to a ridge between two valleys in Colorado. This is actually a route of several doubletrack trails and roads, even though it shows as a single trail on Trailforks, that are also open to atvs and dirt bikes. There wasn't any ...
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Spin Cycle Trail
Spin Cycle is fun twisty downhill trail near Park City, Utah. Its grand finale is in a gully with big banked turns and creek crossings. In the gully section, there are a few spots where work was being finished up and a couple of downed trees. I le...
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Winding Snake, Ucluelet, BC
citxaa iyii (Jit-hwah Hy-eee) transalted as Winding Snake is another downhill flow trail at the base of Mt. Ozzard. It is on Vancouver Island near the town of Ucluelet, BC and Pacific Rim National Park. Like citkaaatas (Rolling Downhill) next to i...
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Rolling Downhill, Ucluelet, BC
citkaaatas (sitk-augh-a-tus) transalted as Rolling Downhill is a downhill flow trail with jumps. It is on Vancouver Island near the town of Ucluelet, BC and Pacific Rim National Park. It's a newer trail than was opened last year. It's a short trai...
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Bamm Bamm Trail
Bamm Bamm is a short black diamond downhill trail with jumps, small drops and wood features in north of La Grande, OR. It's good for a quick lap or two.
Slate Creek Trail June 2021 - Video Thumbnail
Video of Slate Creek mountain bike trail in the western Uintas along Mirror Lake Hwy in the first year it was open. It is a smooth climb followed by a fun techy downhill.
This is the downhill half of the Philips Ridge & Canyon Loop which is near Teton Pass in Wyoming. The start has some of the connector trails between Philips Ridge and Philips Canyon trails. Philips Canyon trail is almost all downhill. The climb up wa... 
Ant Farm
Ant Farm trail was rebuilt in 2018. It is one of four downhill flow trails in Bob's Basin. The rebuilt improved the flow and little drops and side hits.
Trail Link: https://www.trailforks.com/trails/ant-farm/
Music: Kevin MacLe...
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The Dropout trail was rebuilt in 2019, a year before this video. It is one of four downhill flow trails in Bob's Basin. The rebuild improved the flow and added doubles.
Music: Birth of a Hero, https://www.bensound.com (Creative Commons L...
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Flume Trail
Most of this ride was on the Flume Trail with the upper section on Wild Iris loop. There was a mix a stuff on the ride, smooth trail, rock gardens, steep downhills and lots of views of the river. The GoPro on top of my helmet hit a overhanging tre...
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Highlights of my ride on the double black Captain Ahab trail in Fall 2019. It's one of the best techy trails in Moab.
This is an older video not published here before. It was take using a Mero 6 which explains the jerkyness not in my newer videos.
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BYOB is a downhill trail off the RTS loop with berms and jumps if you know what to look for. In one spot the trail splits into three with two rock roll options. 
OMH is downhill trail in the Lower Utah Olympic Park area that was built in 2018. 
Ridgeway Has Some Nice Views of the Nearby San Juans
This is the last of the three articles I wrote for the website Trazzler which is no longer. It's not a ride or hike, just a stop we made on a rest day between climbing 14ers. Photos are from a trip in 2009For most, the town of Ridgeway is wher...
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Downtown Juneau at Night
Head up a mountain right off the boat! The Mt. Roberts Tram is by the cruise ship docks in downtown Juneau and takes passengers up 1,745 ft to the top of Mt. Roberts.
The Eagle River
The Amalga Trail in Juneua, Alaska, goes by ponds as it follows the Eagle River toward the Eagle Glacier. There's sections of it that are on boardwalks.
Heintzleman Ridge
Thunder Mountain is not far from the shore and forms part of the once side of the Mendenhall Valley. There are two trails up the mountain which merge about half way up.
Arrowhead Lake (or is it Right Turn Arrow Lake)<br>Love Lake is just to the right and above the point of the arrow.
After Inkwell Lake there was some more above treeline rock scrambling. Two of us headed over towards Doughnut Lake, which is in a separate drainage from the other until below Arrowhead Lake. We found a great spot which overlooked both Doughnut Lak...
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Inkwell Lake
Rocky Mountain National Park has a road called the Trail Ridge Road, which goes above treeline for several miles. At its Forest Canyon Overlook, you can see several lakes in a side canyon. Many people stop and stare at them, but they get few visit...
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San Juans Trips 9-09 - View When the Clouds Had Cleared
(San Juans - Part 3)Mt. Sneffels is third highest mountain in the San Juans, 14,150 ft. The hike up it is short, but steep and fun. The drive from Ouray to the trailhead was very scenic and part of it is a shelf road with amazing views.
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San Juans Trips 9-09 - 57 Cascade Falls
A collection of photos from Ouray and Ridgeway, Colorado including a brewery or two, mountain scenery and a waterfall.
The Peak Sticking Up Above a Ridge
The Mountain of the Holy Cross, with an elevation of 14,005 ft, is the third lowest 14er in Colorado. Colorado has 53 peaks higher than 14,000 ft called 14ers. They range in height from 14,001 ft up to 14,433 ft. The Holy Cross Wilderness is one o...
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Water Flowing on Glacier Creek
Snowshoe hike in Rocky Mountain National Park near Bear Lake. We went by a couple of frozen lakes and by a snow cover waterfall while following a creek up a valley.
Crusty Snow on Long Lake
A few weeks ago a couple of us went for a snowshoeing hike close to Boulder. The Brainard Lake area is about 35-45 minutes from Boulder. During the winter the road to the lake is closed. The road...
Valley Loop Trail Hike 6-03 - Colorado River 1
This trail is on west side of Rocky Mountain National Park in the headwaters of the Colorado River where it meanders through pine forests and meadows in the Kawuneeche Valley.
Keystone 4-03 - Looking Down From Top About Noon
Weather can change fast in the mountains. This day, I was snowboarding at Keystone. In the morning the skies were blue and the snow conditions were not good. The snow was hard packed. This first picture is of the North Peak from the top of the fro...
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Maroon Bells 6-03 - Crater Lake with Flowers
These pics are from a hike near Aspen, CO, in a valley next to the Maroon Bells. This area is so popular that everyone has to take a shuttle bus in the area during summer days. If you go really early or in the evening the road is open to cars. We ...
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