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Post by Ironi on Jul 27, 2011 7:32:40 GMT -5
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Post by dgaddis1 on Jul 27, 2011 7:54:40 GMT -5
What they're describing sounds a lot more like a downhill trail than a flow trail.
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Post by mhanna on Jul 27, 2011 7:57:41 GMT -5
That's someone writing an article that doesn't personally know the subject he is writing about. Those are downhill trails not flow trails. You don't have to pedal on those.
MH
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Post by wooglin on Jul 27, 2011 8:54:35 GMT -5
They sound to me like one-way flow trails that go downhill.
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Post by dgaddis1 on Jul 27, 2011 9:13:41 GMT -5
They sound to me like one-way flow trails that go downhill. ;D well played |
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Post by seenvic on Jul 27, 2011 9:52:08 GMT -5
A DH trail is way more knarly than a few berms. If there isn't a drop of at least 8' and a gap of 20', it isn't a modern day DH trail. I can't ride modern day DH trails.
I think Wooglin said it best.
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Post by DK on Jul 27, 2011 10:47:22 GMT -5
FATS a one way flow trail that goes downhill? Damn, I've been riding it wrong.  |
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Post by Angela on Jul 27, 2011 11:48:03 GMT -5
Yikes and there in the article on the map that is titled Go with the Flow.....Location of special downhill trails that mimic ski runs ........is our FATS. Talk about increasing the potential for accidents if someone thought it was when it clearly isn't. Suspect the person writing the article was not a mountain biker so didn't have all the facts!  The concept sounds fun but somehow you have to go back up to the top of the hill |
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Post by seenvic on Jul 27, 2011 12:09:41 GMT -5
I think this is the opposite of throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
My guess is WSJ get some data about "flow trails" in the USA from IMBA. Interviewed a few people out west, then made the assumption that all the flow trails were like the ones in Sun Valley (a ski slope in Idaho.)
I don't the writer cares about the nuance of a flow trail going one direction, all DH, or both directions like at FATS with riders going up and down the hills.
The "correct" thing to have done was to leave the east coast trails out, or to say that not all the trails in the 11 listed are dedicated one direction trails of the DH sort.
But one thing these trails are NOT....DOWNHILL TRAILS (in the sense of DH Racing). Those trails have become nutty, with huge drops, gaps, and steepness none of us would be comfortable on. The trails in the article are like FATS.....easy, just mostly DH.
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Post by Ironi on Jul 27, 2011 12:23:06 GMT -5
Gosh, see what I started LOL
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Post by wooglin on Jul 27, 2011 13:55:41 GMT -5
I preferred IMBA's singletrack and long rides direction. And I miss poorly maintained fall-line trails. Blasphemy. |
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Post by seenvic on Jul 27, 2011 14:02:20 GMT -5
I preferred IMBA's singletrack and long rides direction. And I miss poorly maintained fall-line trails. Blasphemy. Mistletoe and Plum Branch. And the powerlines I ride from my house. I even hear the "old tower trail" is still there if you look hard enough. |
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The concept sounds fun but somehow you have to go back up to the top of the hill