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The Halpatiokee trail system near the South Fork of the St. Lucie River has a directional set of mountain bike trails that form a loop. There a few spots where some trails can be skipped. It is mostly flat, but there's a few hills and some tight p...
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Camp Murphy is one of Florida's best trail systems for jumps, drops, berms and other tech. It also has sand pits, palmetto roots and rock gardens climbs. 
Bunker Hill is the black diamond trail near the trailhead. It's got rock gardens, drops, jump and other techy spots. 
Hare Trail is a green trail that takes you back to the trailhead. It is the last trail on the Camp Murphy Mountain Bike loop in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Florida. 
This video has two short trails sandwiching a longer one. Eight Tenths is a twist blue trail between Prickly Pear and Silo trails. There is an option to use a short cut between the two to skip it... 
Fire Ring has jumps like the other trails in Camp Murphy, but also has a long skinny and rock climb to keep things interesting. Camp Murphy is the mountainb bike trail system in Jonathan Dickinson State Park..
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A drop, a boardwalk and a pond view on a short trail in the Camp Murphy trail system of Jonathan Dickinson State Park.
Trail Links: Trailforks MTB Project
These are two trails a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. There's a few techy features...and some sand pits. Palmetto ends in a skills area with some skinnys.
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Big Burn is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trail system in Jonathan Dickinson Florida State Park. It starts out with a log ride and a jump. It has more jumps and berm turns. The trail also has a couple of sandy climbs that are sped up in the vide...
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Doe is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Florida's Jonathan Dickinson State Park. This is a video of the entire trail. 
Root Loop is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trails in Jonathan Dickinson State Park. This used to be a harder black trail due to the palmetto bush roots crossing the trail. They are more buried by the sand now and not as hard as they used to be.<...
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Osprey is a blue trail in the Camp Murphy trail system in Jonathan Dickinson State Park in Florida. This is a trail preview video of the whole trail. 
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... 
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 cross-country trail in Devil's Den Arkansas State Park has a few section where you are biking along a rocks wall and it has some great views of the river below. 
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.
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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... 
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 a... 
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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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 l... 
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
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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.
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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.
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This video is on the trails across the Columbia River from Golden, British Columbia. This is area has a mix of trails with jump trails and one where you can look down on the Columbia River.
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Highlights at Fernie Bike Park with raw audio. Trying to see what people like more - music or raw audio on the POV mountain bike videos.
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Fernie has a variety of trails. This video show a several different trails I was able to ride on an afternoon lift ticket.
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 Nationa...
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 newe...
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.
View from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr going into the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado. This video was taken from a roomette (you can see a temperature control in the window reflection).
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View from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr going into the Moffat Tunnel in Colorado. This video was taken from a roomette (you can see a temperature control in the window reflection).
Views of the Colorado River in Gore and Byers Canyons from an eastbound Amtrak California Zephyr. Sorry about the haze and spots, Amtrak needs to clean their windows.
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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/
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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....
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. 
Full trail video of Broadway Flow Trail in Anthony Lakes Ski Area, Oregon. The trail was open, but still had some work going on the bottom of the trail. 
Ridgeway Has Some Nice Views of the Nearby San Juans
Colorado Boy Pub & Brewery in Ridgeway, Colorado has a couple of excellent beers and a great pub atmosphere. They also have Paninis and free popcorn.
Mud Lake
Mountain Biking on easy trails in the Mud Lake Open Space near Nederland, Colorado followed by hiking in Caribou Ranch Open Space.
The Vineyards at Stone Cottage Cellars
In the West Elk Wine Region of Colorado, by Paonia there are several small wineries. During this visit we talked with owners and sampled the wines.
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.
The Benjamin Trail
The Benjamin Trail is a trail I worked on last fall; one day of trail building and one day of old trail removal. It is an addition to another trail at Betasso Open Space near Boulder. It opened in May and I was able to get a chance to ride it. It ...
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Arrowhead Lake (or is it Right Turn Arrow Lake)<br>Love Lake is just to the right and above the point of the arrow.
Hiking cross-country in Rocky Mountain National Park. After the lakes, we saw a couple moose, followed social trails and walked on logs before climbing out of the valley to the road.
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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Chasm Lake is one of the most scenic lakes in the park, especially when the ice is breaking up on it. The lake is at 11,800 ft with Longs Peak towering above it. 
San Juans Trips 9-09 - View When the Clouds Had Cleared
Mt. Sneffels is third highest mountain in the San Juans, 14,150 ft. The hike up this Colorado 14er is short, but steep.
San Juans Trips 9-09 - 57 Cascade Falls
Ouray and Ridgeway, Colorado! We visited a brewery or two, mountain scenery, found a great view of the town and a waterfall. Why was Mr. Grumpy Pants Brewery closed?
The Peak Sticking Up Above a Ridge
he Mountain of the Holy Cross, at 14,005 ft, is the third lowest 14er in Colorado. The Holy Cross Wilderness is one of the most beautiful areas of Colorado.
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
The Brainard Lake area is a popular mountain lake in Colorado. During the winter the road to the lake is closed and is a great place for easy snowshoeing.
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 ...
Maroon Bells 6-03 - Crater Lake with Flowers
Apsen area hike in late June with great views of the Maroon Bells. Wildflowers were coming our and we went by a couple of lakes.©2022 - 2026 Mountain Adventures LLC all rights reserved (Designed by On the Grid Web Design LLC)