Finding the Steeps in East Burke: Rude Awakening

The Kingdom Trails are awesome; for sure. But I couldn't find anything in that trail system that was steep or gnarly enough for my liking. So, we decided to tackle Burke Mountain. And DANG am I happy we did!
Both Rude Awakening and Upper J-Bar reprepresent the best in show for steep, rocky and rooty terrain in Northern Vermont.
I had heard they were steep, and technical, and down right scary. Heck, I was almost convinced I should leave these trails alone. Thank goodness I'm not good at taking sound advice.

[@MagnumoftheMountains]

Glad to see you back, Dusty! Your channel deserves many more subs for the quality of your biking videos, voice over, narration, and thought process. Just when I was thinking, "Hmmm, I wonder what happened to him?" Your channel came back with new bike content in my hometown of Vail! Cheers!

[@mbilly333]

SICK!

[@DustyTrailsMTB]

stoked!

[@CornellHarris]

How are you liking the Fuel over the Remedy?

[@DustyTrailsMTB]

oof. Tough question. At the moment I wouldn't sell the Remedy in order to pick up a Fuel. But... I kinda already did that. So now I'm stuck trying to figure out how to make this bike work for me.

[@CornellHarris]

@@DustyTrailsMTB I understand that. Just swapped from a 27.5 enduro bike to a 29er. Spent the past few months getting used to it.