Why Mess with a Perfectly Good Trail - The Goat Rehab at Battle Creek 

Great video and thanks for documenting this change. I was finally able to ride it and love the updated trail. The soul of the goat trail is still there, but it is faster, more fun and way more sustainable. The reality is you’ll be hard pressed to find anyone that doesn’t have a massive smile on their face after riding a Buck built section of trail.

Great to see the background thought on this. It was a ballsy move to mess with people's favorite trail first thing but I rode Goat twice yesterday and the updates were well done. Making the best better will give people confidence on future trail updates.

I just recently discovered Battle Creek Park and its amazing MTB trails. Thanks Kristofer for making these movies that make me understand the stories behind better. Man, the trails are so sweet and the park so beautiful. And they still do improvements. Wow

Rode the Goat 5 times this evening! My son and I stumbled into it not knowing what a gem it was until we rode it! Fast, flowy, jumpy, rooty, rocky oh and there’s a gap down by lower Afton Road I found the hard way. All is well, ego bruised but got on two tires and headed back up. Love your videos. Gonna head back to BC on Wednesday.

Glad to see that bottom rock garden remains largely unchanged. Can't wait to get up there and try out the new GOAT! By that time the new lower section will be finished!

The tight landings have always sketched me out and prevented me from sending some of the jumps but it looks like there is more room for errors now. I like it

Thanks for the vid! My son and I watched it and now he wants to make the trip down to ride the goat! We mostly ride bertram and elm creek so the exposure to the other great trails in MN is really appreciated.

Great video. Cool to see the work being done, and the reasons behind it. Many people don't realize why changes need to be made to the trails they love.

Great work to everyone involved with this! Most progressive trail by the cities. Hopefully we will see more of these larger features appear at other locations

Fantastic work on this! GOAT is a true gem here in the metro. Was just out riding today and cant wait for the whole thing to be completed.

Rode it a couple times this summer. Overall I like the changes. Maybe would have been nice to make one or two of the little jumps up top into table tops, IMO. I Didn’t try that last double after the rock garden this season.

Great to know a local trail is still getting updated and improved! With the economy where its currently at I still have reservations about pulling the trigger on my first bike, but I've been semi-scratching the itch by hiking through Battle Creek the past few weeks. Thanks to your first video on it of course!

Great update Kris! 🐐 I appreciate all who were involved on this much needed renovation 🤘🏼🍻🦅

The ravine gap on the unfinshined lower section looks rad. Some good options to work up to. A couple areas where I'm not quite confident...the double step down after the 3x jumps toward the top, the middle roller gap just after the side hip log landing, the last jump which is the biggest and a bit soft and lost its shape. It's fun to re-watch your footage after riding this trail and seeing how you road/filmed these sections :) Solid trail top to bottom! Pretty impressive feat.

Hit it yesterday with my buddy, after watching this vid. Wow, it is gnarlier than what your footage looks like haha. I was too chicken to send the jumps. Gotta practice more.

GOAT is definitely the best downhill line in the metro both before and after the update, but the best trail in the metro(OK maybe slightly outside the metro) is Whitetail Ridge in RF worth the trip IMO. Happy to give you guided tour.

really good trail!! thanks for the great job!!!

Great video man, well done. I think everyone who rides there was a little nervous when they heard it was going to change but I’m stoked on it. Big props to Buck and Pathfinder. 🤙🏻

Loved it. I took alot of the "A" jumps to land on the "B" line. I got a little carried away and came up wrong at the jump at 3:36 and 3:53 just uphill of the small rock ledge. I do love the new start for sure.

Waiting on my new chain to come in the mail and then I'm hitting the trails hard!! Hope to see you out there sometime this year!

Looks like fun, Thanks for the preview. We can now see it hasn't been "sustainability upgraded to death" like some trails that could support skateboarding if it wasn't for the sand.

Thought it was gonna get nerf’d at first. Then I heard pathfinder trails was involved and was actually gonna add to it, which turned my fears into excitement. It’s even better than it was before and I have yet to see all of it as the very bottom is still closed off. 2020 is off to a terrible start thanks to covid, but at least there is quite a few things to look forward to if you’re into mountain biking. New redhead trail system in Chisholm, new lines at Cuyuna, Battle Creek looking better by the week, Bertram getting expanded upon, plus brand new trails at Carver Park Reserve and Lone Lake in the Metro. Minnesota mountain biking is leveling up.

Cool video! It was fun to see what goes in to making a a good trail. Is there a bike shop you would recommend to help me with my first MTN bike purchase? I live in the Twin Cities.

You should check out movil maze in bemidji

As of Friday the tree step down was still super soft on the side. I gapped all the way to the left and bottom and almost fell off I sunk so hard. But other than that the new trail is a huge improvement for the metro

XC trails kinda suck there I said it. We NEED more trails like this one!

What bike are you using in this video? And the video you took at Welch village. Just getting into biking in the minneapolis area and trying to figure out what to get with the terrain we have. Trail, enduro, dh, I’m leaning away from dh since we don’t have many trails with lifts available. Thank you 😊

I'll admit it... I was worried. I really like the changes they made. I still need to work on jumping. Actually landing it my biggest concern.

Any idea when welch village is going to open?

Does anyone know if Como Jumps are still there or know of something similar?

What’s the best trail for a beginner in Minnesota? I just started a few weeks ago and have a good bike. My bike can do technical trails because the tires are not that big but I’m a beginner so maybe not to technical also for a younger person.

But why are trail builders making new trails so wide? Replacing old natural terrain with new smooth dirt and jumps. It's pretty sad really, we're losing all the natural trails in the area. Even up in Duluth they're always replacing the og trails with these smooth wide trails that are a lot easier and less fun to ride.