Thanks for checking out the video guys! If you’re interested i posted a pure pov lap to my raw channel this morning: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fb-Cqq2XxM7bmHk.html

To be fair, if it is a double black trail, the features are gonna be double black, so you need to have the skill required

I’m a decent rider (comfortable riding pro lines/double blacks) who already knew the general layout by watching these videos and I was struggling to figure out the flow of that section earlier this season. I think it’s due to a mix of lack of sight lines and tighter spacing between features. I’ve had the same issue a bunch of things I’ve built in the past, and I found cutting down tall brush in corners and moving lips at least 15 to 20 feet past the end of berms really goes a long way.

It seems like trail building videos should be quite boring, but you make them very fascinating and enjoyable. Amazing work on both the trail and the video!

Damn, you're a trail building machine. Tackling that big stump solo was an endeavor. Hope Yuka is doing well.

The problem with them hitting the jump is they were riding it like any other jump assuming that they would clear it, it was so safe for you because you were hitting the jump knowing that you were going to case it. This causes you to completely change your form

I love building trails and can relate to your pain in removing that stump.

That trail looks so fun mate, I love how persistant you are when it comes to clearing a feature.

There was a stump down at a local jump spot. It was kinda in the way of a landing and was a bit dangerous so we decided we'd remove it one afternoon just in case like. It look 4 of us like 6 hours to get that bloody thing out 🤣

Never thought trail building would be so fascinating! It's a lot like ux design, just trial and error, really awesome work!

Thanks for continually making an already great trail even better!🙏

Awesome build! I build trails a bit too, and i have to say it is very impressive that you chose to remove that stump! Maybe its because I build mine all by hand, but after spending an entire afternoon removing a small stump, I now just build around them😂

Happens, but it just makes victory much sweeter when you finally get it working as it should all around.

I have Covid. It’s been a hard depressing couple weeks. I d decided to make a ‘to do’ list. Riding this trail is on it. Thank you for bringing some sunshine to my life.

Should ahve just added a flat top to it and turned it into a step up table. Or like... an angled table? that way there is no lip thing on the landing and no one can nose bonk it and if they do come up short its literally painless. Just my 2cents n_n Still looks fun as heck tho. I can't WAIT to try some local trails on my MTB. Years of BMX tells me its gonna be tons of fun! lol

I have built four tracks that were ten-fifteen features back to back and I have always ended up being the only person to ride them. This last track I made for my seven year old was all table tops dug into the ground so that flat ground wasn't so far away for him. Everything looks great bro!

Love your trail building vids! The editing and narrative is just perfect 👏

"Stump's Revenge" Eric, you are a trail building machine!

Big respect to all trail builders all of that is with passion, its heavy work.

Eric - it’s a great feature and an incredible trail. I’ll be back for redemption! Ryan

This track is so cute! It’s be a great place for kids to learn.

When I was 13-15 I loved working on trails. The friends and I had bmx jumps in the wood behind my house. We would add or change or remove things all the time. It was so much fun. I haven’t ridden in 20 or more years. When I watch these videos I wanna get back into it but then I let life get in the way. If I want to do it I need to just make the time for it.

I love the shoutout to the indigenous nations at the end!

I can’t wait for him to release the video on derby in Tasmania ❤️

Thank you for this video. I've never seen anyone build a trail in a forest and when you started I honestly thought it would be next to impossible!

I remember watching your videos like 2 yrs ago and here I am back. Also this time I subscribed :)

Glad you make the trails so they do not have dire consequences when you do not hit the jump perfectly. It is fun slowly learning to ride harder features, it is not fun if you break an arm while in that process. When i was younger i would not care, but now i am older i have an important job and responsebilities to worry about. Also i like if there is a way to opt out if you are not feeling it.

used to door knock in upper bc boonies and constantly saw mountain bikers and people revving chainsaws in the nearby woods, respec for doing all that work for everyone to enjoy

I can’t wait to get out there one day and walk all these features! 😂 looks so awesome. Great work as always.

Great skills of trail building and great work on the trail. But if you utilized the stump with moss you've cut as a new feature, it would have been better to me. I think the moss on the top of the stump was so adorable. Thanks for the video as always. I love your work!

Eric, so cool to watch you build trail, it is a very time consuming and takes a lot of effort. IT is very rewarding as well, I feel the same way you do when you ride your trail and it works!! Keep up the good work!!

Always entertaining to watch your videos.

Love this video , I remember watching you 2 years ago . I remembered this channel now I love watching this content again., Keep it up!

A interesting story to go along with some nice trail building footage. One thing that surprised me is the removal of roots. Around where I am its generally considered bad to remove any roots when trail building.

This is really quite interesting, I guess in the back of my head I knew this was someone's job, but I never really got to see it progress like this. Super awesome video.

Being inspired by you, over the summer, I started building my own trail in my backyard. So far it's about 0.2 miles but I still have a lot of work to do and I'm waiting for the summer time so that there's no snow and so that the ground isn't frozen because I don't have the heavy machinery you have in some of your videos.

Stumps are very challenging. A puzzle sometimes. Chains and a tractor sometimes help, but sometimes I really feel like I need a bulldozer.

Eric no safety glass's while using a chainsaw, I wonder if Yuka will dig you sporting the Pirate look?

So glad you addressed the pleasure of digging without rocks in the ground

Such a satisfying video. Up there with the Joe Robinet snowy bivv outs! Cheers!

Wow, that's so cool! Many thanks and please do more building and show it to us! All the best, you're the best! ;)

Fantastic work and video Eric!!!!

You make lovely, interesting and compelling films. Please keep them coming! 🤘🏼🤙🏼🙏🏼

Thank you for recognizing whose land this is on ❤

Oh yeah and the most important part, awesome work! And so classic that the first dude to try, your feature goes OTB, he was a good sport about it!

Bro I MISS so badly chillin in the woods building jumps and tracks and just riding all day. I wasn’t good enough to turn it into a career path for myself and now I have to work in an office with most of my time.

Can we get another video of you riding the complete trail, you've built so far. Would be awesome. Great Videos at all.

You should look into a stamping tool for packing the dirt on the trails you create.

Hey that was great way to end the video with that wipe transition from original terrain to final .

Lots of hard work. Looks awesome! Wish I was there to ride it.

one good way to get into that stump only cause it was off the ground get a jack under it with a wedge and spit it from down up. helps split it up. I have done it before and that stump looked like it would work

when i learned how to ride a half pipe in the early 80's we set up the half pipe up at the bottom of the hill so we never left the ground much and jumping up hill, its easy to slow down if you eat shhtt.

I would like to discuss the myth of "trail speed". Different riders, different conditions and even tires all play a part in actual speed. All to many times I've seen people pull back a landing or push forward a takeoff after too little of a test period, only to find later that once things are packed and fast that they made their jump too small.

Also, the wheelbarrow with a half load of dirt makes a great compactor, and you don’t look like a bunny rabbit.

those chaps are keeping that log wicked safe

I wish my property had that nice of dirt. I go down about 5 inches and hit solid rock. Was slightly disappointed when I found that out because I had wanted to sculpt a trail.

as a beginner my biggest gripe is gaps.. build tabletops and it wont matter if we fall short (which we will)

As a trail builder myself its always good to make the features as safe as possible and as accessible as possible ( in terms of risk/reward ) however what i found out during the years of building is that making it larger isnt always the way to go since most of the accidents happen when things just dont feel right. And you can always brake a bit if you feel like going too far. But Everything has its pros and cons in regards of making stuff more difficult -> If it was too easy people wouldn't progress.

Epic work

Great video! Love the effort, keep up the great work, you are an AMAZING builder!

Eric you should post a video from your boomerang farm trip

That looks like a step up jump, there pretty cool, if you hit them right you can get some nice style over the higher landing.

The other side of the coin is that you invite your advanced MTB pals over, they nail all the features first time out, yawn, and never come back. Don't beat yourself up, you do good work.

Trail building should be easy like putting clean sheets on a bed. So you can spend more time enjoying the ride...but I get it...sometimes things can get gnarly. We used to make a bunch of jumps for the 20" bmx bikes back in the day.... lots of fun!

Interesting. I thought there was most math going into travel building but the trial and error seems to work. 💥

you should carve the lip out so it has more pop and make it a few inches taller with the dirt you carve out. Should give you more air and distance without changing the speed

Hey Eric amazing job and one day we will come and ride your trail. Take care

Great video !!! Very good job !!! 👍👍👍

for packing dirt have you tried one of those things thats like a jack hammer but it has a big flat piece of metal so it goes over a wide area so instead of breaking things up it packs it

Subtly timing your grunts to the classical music piece was fantastic.

Damn making these trails are a lot harder than they look

That is so damn cool, and what a blast!!!

great video as always eric but - where is your eye protection???????

its 5am and the algorithm has brought this channel to me.

The forest looks nice

Come ride Central Texas, it's perfect this time of year! The Peddler Bike Shop Cedar Park can hook you up with some riders that know the way...

looks sweet. love this trails..🔥💯

I don’t even trail ride and this was a great watch

Awesome trail Eric …. 🤙🏼

That stump could make a sweet table

Try using a 5 tonne chain winch, it has a small pull range (8ft) but you just attach it to a bigger tree with slings!

Awesome cool trail 🤘🤘

I don't know exactly where this is. I live in Australia and I love mountain biking. I find it hard to watch land being cleared for new tracks. Here we keep building new trails while the existing ones deteriorate instead of being maintained. I'm not criticising Eric. I am a fan of his. Maybe we could plant more trees whenever we build a new track or revegetate the forgotten trails. I would like to think nature and mountain bikes can't be separated.

Love the trail building vids

You can always cut stumps flush with the ground, rising up slightly, use an old chain though

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEW UPLOAD LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I'll have a bike soon :) im saving slowly but surely, gonna have to get a 400$ bike, but not sure how i can ride trails here in japan kekw

looks like fun

Ive always been wary of doubles - so dangerous if you don't clear the gap. It takes such little extra work to make a table top instead (ie filled in between the two jumps to its ramp height). If you don't make the distance you just land on flat without consequence instead of hitting a wall like on doubles. I guess a 'best of both worlds' result could be had if you made a flat wooden panel that could be placed between the two ramps to make it flat like a table top if you don't clear it, but for the more daring it could still be removable to return it to a regular double.

great looking stuff. Not for me but glad you all enjoy it.

damn, that's a lot of duff...

Come to Kenya and build some trails here!

he made it so easy in the end, it is said the rain water followed the trail.

I like your features 😜

This feels like some random cool cable tv channel

I got no idea with mountain biking but I do ride moto cross and I do jumps using motorcycles and from what I can tell that first step up jump the landing is too large as many people hit it with the front wheel and thats what caused the guy to flip forward on the step up. Maybe shorten the height and it can be perfect!

Nice!

I feel an inch or 2 shorter would help on first jump up if you want it to be safer. Hard to overshoot a jump like that and if you do, it looks like a pretty flat landing also, which makes it safe to do so. (For the rider maybe not the bike :P)

nice work

You should come to the south east for winter we have 2 new bike parks and a lot of extremely challenging trails mainly windrock

could you make a video on the process of clearing a trail? it always takes me forever and ends up not being very good, what type of tools do you use and what do you start with. stuff like that.