Dumbed Down? - Thomas Mountain and the Ramona Trail Revisited

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2 жыл бұрын

Thomas Mountain and the Ramona trails are a hell of a lot of fun. I first rode here in 2003 and the bottom half of the Ramona trail was fine bit of raw technical awesomeness. That bottom section is no longer what I would call raw. It is still technical and mighty fun, but it now longer has the same level of on-your-toes technical as I remember it during my previous ride here in 2006. It has often been as the Ramona Downhill as the bottom third made climbing it not really a practical option. That is no longer the case the today, folks will climb up the trail. That is not what I did for this video.
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@JDtheFreak 2 жыл бұрын

Being so close to a megalopolis, it was bound to happen. Having a stash of super chunk within a two hour drive from home is never taken for granted in my World.

@mountainbikebill 2 жыл бұрын

I hear you on that! We got some super chunk in town but it is mostly a function of a city trails manager that is intentionally trying to make the trails harder in an attempt to keep bike off of them. The city won't let him ban bikes so he is using all his tools to try and shadow ban bikes. Good for us that feel up for a challenge.

@elborikua951 2 жыл бұрын

@@mountainbikebill superchunk where in town? TW?

@mountainbikebill 2 жыл бұрын

@@elborikua951 Here is the goods on this ride mountainbikebill.com/ThomasMtnRamona.htm

@michaeljordan3084 2 жыл бұрын

Palm canyon? Awesome can’t wait for that one.

@mountainbikebill 2 жыл бұрын

I'm way overdue for modern video on that trail. I have about 10 videos were the original high quality video was lost due to a hard drive/backup failure some years ago. Probably going to get it done this season.

@biketothetop 2 жыл бұрын

Nice day! I love doing that route from the North, top down, hooking South over to Ramona as well. That's the route I took the last time I was there. Sadly, they definitely sanitized the final part of the Ramona Trail. And consistent with your narrative murmurings, the exact root cause is more than likely hiker whiners. It's always been a really fun Rocky chunky technical Grand Finale, but I guess the hikers probably made noise to the forest service on that one. It's amazing how many trails lose their Raw character due to the invasion of City Slickers in Boots. Here's a link to the last time I posted the Ramona Trail. Perhaps you can see the difference. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/npOkqrdpr63FYGw.html

@64chrisg 2 жыл бұрын

When was this video made? Was wondering what the snow situation currently was at the top

@mountainbikebill 2 жыл бұрын

This video was shot back in May. Just now putting the footage together. I know that back in December there was some snow up on the top. Probably just remnants right now.

@64chrisg 2 жыл бұрын

@@mountainbikebill rode the trail last week and you're right, only remnants of snow and ice up top on the singletrack, but that upper singletrack is a mess following the storms...the trail is now a deep rut. A new trail is starting to form just above the rut though. I'm sure once it gets ridden-in it'll be fine :)