About Me: I'm not a pro mountain biker. Just an average dude loving all the adventures mountain biking has to offer. I do tons of trail building at Everstoke with Brian from BKXC. If I'm not building I'm riding my bike on some sick singletrack or hanging out with my family. Adventuring every day I can.
I do end up bench cutting a lot. There are several ridges on the property. In order to get longer trails, I have to utilize the yop and then go down the sides of the ridges. It forces me to be creative and work a bit harder
I love seeing the trail double back on itself at 2:54, really cool section. With the perfect no brakes grade and this comment at 18:10 maybe you should call it “Let it Roll” … it’s looking awesome, I would love to freeride it just like that. Looks super fun!!! I got stung by two wasps right at the bottom of Mills Peak they live in a hole right where you wait for your buddies to finish.
@@mattspen I will probably make a poll on what to name this trail. Buzz Kill and Rad Gnar Rock are a couple of other goodies mentioned in the comments. Lot's of great participation in this video. I really appreciate that.
Ouch! I'm really concerned with getting stung anywhere on the head or face. They're really aggressive this year. Last year, I didn't have problems with those little suckers
Research what kind they are and what they eat like that other comment said, then put bait down far away from the trail. That might get them out of your way. Or it might make them stronger lol
@@Prodiod Take a pic or 2 and compare them to what you see when you research them. It would interesting to know what they are and if they might be harmful in any way...
Such good stuff goin' on as usual. Keep track of your bee bites. Research how many bites you can take before they might turn on you. Find out what kind of critter is biting you. No end to your trail prowess. NICE...
I've already lost track of how many stings I've gotten. I got three on my ankle, one on my elbow, a few more on my arm, one on my ribs, one on my chest, and a few other places. It's crazy building trails out here right now. It's like a war zone.
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.
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
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.
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.
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. 👊🤠
I think I'm going to try a trick I saw on RU-vid. 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
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 👊🤠
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.
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 🤔
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).
@@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.
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.
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!
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 😆
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
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.
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.
It was great to meet you this weekend! Our family of 6 stayed in site 5. We had a blast! The trails are amazing and it’s so nice to camp right on the trails, I was able to do quick laps between outings (epic lakes) and it was great that the kids could ride the skills area within sight! 👏🏼
It was really great meeting you. I'm always stoked to hear when people have a great time. Thanks for coming out. I look forward to having you back out.
@7:05 you mention more elongated berms that carry speed perhaps these half-pipe like G-outs could also be more longated then the Killzone ones. I really love the final ones on Killzone so fun!! They slow down but they also feel like wall rides, I’m only suggesting having this trail feel different by being less steep. This opens it up for one of my favorite sensations which is to berm these at the top arch so that you can mega lean downhill while arching in a rainbow. #MultipleAxis Then for advanced riders have a lip low on the inside of the berm so you can step-up-transfer landing like a wall ride at the top of the berm. Or if you jump super deep it’s more of a hip landing on the downslope part of the rainbow-berm. Make sense?
I love the idea @6:16 of a secret transfer onto the parameter trail!!! I’m wondering about an idea where you use pavers in the take off part of the berm to guide trail users in the direction of the alt angle. Then in the primary angle you ride over them diagonally but they are flush with the berm. My thought is this would help keep the lip crisp from the different directions but also communicate both.
Pavers are definitely going to be used on many things like take offs and hard berms. We are always on thelook out for bricks, pavers , and cinder blocks. It will be a lot of work getting them to the location
I got behind after being on the road camping. This video was fun because we just stayed at Everstoke and rode this feature! I had my kids watch with me and it was fun when they realized where this was and got excited. We had a blast at Everstoke this weekend, thanks for all your hard work! The trails are sooooooo fun! We will be coming back for sure! (PS I tied one of your times on Strava.)
Great work! Sikads had so much fun this weekend! Love the trails! Wish I had more time to shoot video! Definitely coming back on September. Beautiful Campground and nice flow trails!
Watching you gets me itching to cut in our new line but it is too damn hot and dry. There are over 320 forest fires burning in our province so it’s smokey on top of it all. Thanks for the updates. You drinking enough water myguy?
I just sweat through it all and keep pushing forward. I have been hitting the river a lot lately around noon. Feels amazing after trail building. I drink around 5 liters of water a day when building.
Thanks, I felt really strong this last weekend. I hope I will actually be able to bust out another trail soon. That build will start next weekend. I'm going to really do some cool stuff on the next build. Very excited
