Building Mountain Bike Trails - It Never Stops At Everstoke

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We have started another mountain bike trail build. This time it's deep in the woods of Everstoke and the potential is off the charts. It will start out with some really good flow and pop right in to a rock line. The progress is moving fast on this one. I hope you enjoy the action.

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@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

I think this was one of my best time lapse videos

@mjenkins2251 3 ай бұрын

I do like the time lapse. Really see how the trails take shape. Know it’s hours of hard work, but makes it easy to see how Everstoke is coming along in short chunks.

@mattspen 3 ай бұрын

I 100% agree, I noticed at 8:20 that your timelapse camera just kept rolling during each relocation, with no stop re-start between locations and that’s brilliant!!!!! Smooth transitions and we get to see the whole trail during timelapse instead of disorienting cuts to new spots. Bravo! 👏🏼 I would love to see more of that “single-take” timelapse without and cuts.

@chuydawg707 3 ай бұрын

dude yea😎, I'm liking it, and yes ill be going to everstoke soon, hopefully 😅

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

That's great to hear. I look forward to your visit. There is a lot to ride

@rextilian 3 ай бұрын

Bees or wasps? We rarely if ever have bee problems when building it is almost always wasps or hornets. Sure is sounding dry I guess that rain didn’t make it to Everstoke? We could all use some rain in the west. Thanks again for taking the time to film and edit this content. Appreciate all the work!

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

We call them meat bees. They're wasps though. This year those little buggers are bad.

@bstill30 3 ай бұрын

Buzz Kill 🤘🏻

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

Oooo... I like that

@bstill30 3 ай бұрын

@@mtbingadventures1551 seems fitting 👍🏻

@silhouettesofthesun 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the videos! They have inspiried me to go out and build my own trail :)

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. It's really great to read comments like this

@Friskee62 3 ай бұрын

Love ta see some Rockin' & Rollin'...out in the woods

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

Thanks, I really wish the GoPro showed the rocks a little better. This is a really cool section.

@furion.. 3 ай бұрын

HotShot or Spectracide make cans of streaming wasp & hornet spray that shoots like 10-15 feet and comes in handy at our home & property which is 2 acrres that looks a whole lot like EverStoke and is maybe 50 miles from you. 👊🤠

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

I think I'm going to try a trick I saw on KZbin. Buckets of soapy water with meat hanging down low. I guess when the wasp tries to fly away with a piece of meat it falls a few inches before it can adjust for the weight. They end up getting stuck in the soapy water and die. This one guy caught around a 1000 in a single trap. If I locate a hive I'll use that spray

@furion.. 3 ай бұрын

Hey that's a cool natural way of doing it if that works! I know that I had fleas years ago when I first got my dog and as a puppy I let him play with a friend of mine's dog that I didn't know was flea bitten so of course buddy brought home a bunch of fleas and it was only a couple of days that room was filled with them because I let him sleep in the house, so I got a bowl I think it was pyrex, when you trying to flashlight The whole bowl would glow so I got an LED flashlight that I knew would last all night filled it with Dawn blue detergent water and the next morning that bowl had a thousand fleas in it and I hardly had any on me that day that night I did it again and that was the end of our flea issue of course I got buddy on some Good anti-flea meds. I love natural ways of doing things 👊🤠

@mjenkins2251 3 ай бұрын

The new trail looks sweet!! Nice flowy single track with some good chunkiness. Just gotta my cargo camper done and find the time to make the trek from Texas! SF

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

This trail will be ready for when you get here. I just put a bunch more work in on it this last weekend

@mattspen 3 ай бұрын

Trail is looking good! Those rocks look fun, nice riding Dan, and nice meeting you at Everstoke. I’m excited to come back and ride this! Fun to see a video filmed while I was there. That rain his us as we arrived it was less than 15 mins away.

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

That was a bummer the rain missed us. Next time, maybe.

@EarlLewis 3 ай бұрын

Hey Aaron @mtbingadventures1551. I've got to tell you that I visited Everstoke back in early July and really enjoyed the trails. Unfortunately I didn't get to ride too many but you're doing some cool stuff in a very small area. Kudos for some great trails and I'd be remiss if I didn't say something about the hundreds (thousands?) of hours that you've put in on the trail building, along with all the other work at Everstoke. Amazing. One thing I'd suggest is that you improve your climb trails a bit so it's a little easier to run laps. All the trails are pretty short and they just beg for lapping and trying out everything you have. A little easier climb (mostly just the crazy high switchbacks) would seal the deal on this place being a cool destination for a few days riding.

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

I'm glad you made it out to Everstoke. I hope next visit you'll be able to check out a lot more of the trails. The Climb Trail will be able to improve on all the switchbacks and is already on the punchlist for when I go back through and do my improvements. I don't spend a lot of time on my initial cuts due to possible reroutes and lack of volunteers. To properly do a switchback by myself, it will require a full days worth of work. Hopefully. They'll be done by the end of this year. Thanks for the feedback, and thank you very much for coming out.

@furion.. 3 ай бұрын

Hey Aaron, it's always a good day when you guys post another video. You know I was watching a video yesterday, I'll put the link below, who's talking about forests and how we've prevented fires and turned them into serious tinder boxes where super fires will occur and kill everything instead of a normal fire just burning the base brush and so on and I was just wondering but if you offered a week or two for anybody and everybody to come up and bring as many bike trailers as they can buy borrow rent or own so that everybody there has one and imagine a couple of hundred people scouring your property for 2 weeks filling up trailers with combustibles and getting them off the hill... - just a thought 🤔

@furion.. 3 ай бұрын

Still trying to find that link, I'll send it a few minutes, it's a fairly short but eye-opening and educational video about proper forest tending.

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

I'm huge on clearing out much of the overgrowth. It is very possible to have people come out and haul away some brush. Right now I'm looking to raise the canopy and cut down around 100 more trees that are clustered together. I've had a few professionals out to give us some pointers of how high the canopy should be as well as how many trees we should have per acre. I think we are in a pretty good spot at this point. I've built about 15 trails and a fire road. Each time I cut in a trail I remove tons of brush and dead branches. Every winter we burn a ton of brush and dead wood. I think by next summer we will be as safe as we can possibly be (as long as I get a few more groups to help me out).

@EarlLewis 3 ай бұрын

@@mtbingadventures1551 My son is working as a wild land firefighter this summer. I only mention this because his early season was spent doing prevention work in the nearby forest. Once the fire season settles down you might want to ask the local forest service fire team to come out and make recommendations for mitigations you should take. If anyone knows about wild land fire mitigation it's those guys.

@GarySixSixty 3 ай бұрын

watch out for those mean beez 🙈

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

Totally! They're horrible this year. We've killed thousands of them with traps, and they just keep coming. I keep finding their nests while trail building. I'm at total war with those things now 😆

@mp29k 3 ай бұрын

Jealous of the soil you have in Cali. I build trails here in Maine, and our ground is usually a 3-8” layer of duff filled with fine roots, then a rock layer with lots of fist to head sized granite rocks, then finally mineral soil. It usually takes myself and a friend 3-4 hours to build 20’ of trail.

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

Ouch, that sounds brutal. I heard a pitchfork works great to move all the duff off the trail. I've never tried it. But, with that much to deal with. It might be worth a shot. Hopefully, you can get some good-sized crews helping you

@mp29k 3 ай бұрын

Good suggestion, I’ll try it. We use a lot of pick Mattock’s and USFS fire rakes.

@furion.. 3 ай бұрын

The video is called "Preserving our forests is destroying them" by Wilson Forest land I tried to send the link multiple times and different ways by posting only the last part of the link from watch? forward - but effing U-Toob's Ai keeps removing them.

@mtbingadventures1551 3 ай бұрын

You can send it to my email. MTBingAdventures@gmail.com