Official 2011 Horseshoe Resort Thread

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Official 2011 Horseshoe Resort Thread

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Posted: Jul 13, 2012 at 4:56 Quote
thisusernameisnottaken wrote:
The trails are terrible? How so? (I haven't been up there yet this season)

Ya, what was so bad? Were the trails all rutted up or something? I was up opening weekend and it was dusty but okay otherwise.

Posted: Jul 13, 2012 at 17:54 Quote
I was up there today and everything is good again. They cut all of the overgrown grass and reworked a couple spots on the trails, everything is awesome

Posted: Jul 13, 2012 at 21:38 Quote
Went up today, first time since opening weekend for me. I hadnt gotten a chance to ride the o-cup course yet and was really excited to ride it after all the good things I heard. So i was pretty disappointed to find it was closed today with them only having 6 trails, and not giving any reason as to why its closed. They have made improvements to their four main trails, all of which flow better. Still dusty but can't blame them for that really

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 13:06 Quote
do you need a downhill bike to ride the trails at horseshoe? i mostly ride xc but id like to try downhill to see if its worth buying an AM bike next year

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 15:58 Quote
You need a downhill bike or a burly AM bike with alot of travel. They have some nice Norcos for rent. I think there $55 for the day.

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 16:00 Quote
Fraser-norco wrote:
Went up today, first time since opening weekend for me. I hadnt gotten a chance to ride the o-cup course yet and was really excited to ride it after all the good things I heard. So i was pretty disappointed to find it was closed today with them only having 6 trails, and not giving any reason as to why its closed. They have made improvements to their four main trails, all of which flow better. Still dusty but can't blame them for that really


I was planing on heading up tomorrow, i am also going to be really disappointed if they have the o cup trail closed.

Also does anyone know what their hours of operation are on Sundays this time of season ?

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 18:20 Quote
The o-cup trail is closed because of property issues. Part of the course is ever so slightly intruding on a mans property and he is making a shit about it...

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 18:54 Quote
emac227 wrote:
do you need a downhill bike to ride the trails at horseshoe? i mostly ride xc but id like to try downhill to see if its worth buying an AM bike next year


I rode my 5 inch travel bike there last year. I could hit every thing on trail 1 and 2. Didn't want to hit the bigger drops on 3 and 4, but could go around them and still have fun.

Posted: Jul 14, 2012 at 19:45 Quote
chris44 wrote:
The o-cup trail is closed because of property issues. Part of the course is ever so slightly intruding on a mans property and he is making a shit about it...

Pretty sure it'd be best then to re-route the trail off the property. Shouldn't be all too hard i would guess.

Posted: Jul 15, 2012 at 8:37 Quote
emac227 wrote:
do you need a downhill bike to ride the trails at horseshoe? i mostly ride xc but id like to try downhill to see if its worth buying an AM bike next year

I was able to ride everything from trails 1-4 on my Norco Bigfoot (hardtail) without any problems. I now ride my Norco Empire which is a slopestyle bike and it works perfectly for Horseshoe

Posted: Jul 15, 2012 at 16:44 Quote
It appears from their site they're closed Mondays, can anyone confirm that? Just confused because on a different page on their site it say's they're only open Sat and Sun, have tommorow open, hoping to get lucky.

Thanks,

Grego

Posted: Jul 15, 2012 at 17:50 Quote
They are definitely closed Mondays. Found this out last week when we tried to purchase something from the bike shop while riding in Copeland.

Posted: Jul 15, 2012 at 19:00 Quote
Ok thanks, dammit.

Posted: Jul 16, 2012 at 8:09 Quote
I was riding there yesterday with 2 buddies. They closed the trails at 4:30 cause apparently some kids were poaching the terrain park (trail 5 or 6 or w/e) They were riding low end bikes and ended up totaling them before the patrol took the bikes from them. Guess it pissed them off so they started flipping wooden features on the left side of the hill causing them to shut down early.

Besides that the trail were super dry and sandy, they really need some attention and a good soaking.

Posted: Jul 16, 2012 at 10:56 Quote
terrain park? where are they building that? Did it open recently?


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