Discussion: re: mountain bike trails - ...

re: mountain bike trails - a lot of people ride, and though I'm not a mountain biker, I suspect that a lot of the riding fun is in the swooping bumpy bits.

A). Set mountain bike courses at local meets and actively promote them to the local mtb community?

B) With most maps being generated per meet from OCAD, it wouldn't be tough to add a sub-symbol whereby primary trails & jeep tracks get one symbol code and mtb trails get a different code. Then at meet time, you can print the advanced maps with just the primary trail system and WYO maps with full trails. Only downside is folks with local knowledge would benefit from mtb trails even if not printed on map.

Somebody would have to go field check the MTB trails, which seem to sprout quickly. Not sure if there is any answer to it, but they are not a welcome addition to a nice forest like Ansonia (or Sessions which now has a bunch of them), presumably almost anyplace else, soon.

That's the problem, the fun bits for O' are the fun bits for biking too. I just wonder if they know that they're wrecking another people's sport (and forest) while covering every available meter in wobbly trails?

Any idea what impact these trails have on the wildlife?

When I was remapping Norwottuck, the southern part of the map was undergoing rapid mountain bikification. I'd map a new section of trail, only to end with a 'hidden' tool cache, then come back a few days later to map more extensions. At some point I had to call it 'finished' even though trail building was ongoing and many unmapped trails were encountered on the courses.

And they do like to visit every major rock feature in many terrains.

There were some rock features on the bike trails on the Blue Mountain map that I had a hard time believing a mtb-er would survive jumping. 2' high or more, with smaller rocks on the landing!