Snowshoe Mountain - Southeastern Gravity Series Championship Course Preview

Sep 10, 2015 at 12:02
by Kurt Schachner  
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  • 32 0
 I bet it's super techy.
  • 14 0
 some beeeeeerrrmmms
  • 7 0
 The big road gap is just to the left of Upper Hairball, is prettttty big. That Lower Hairball is so much worse then that Gopro shows, it kicks your hands arse!!!
  • 2 0
 dude no doubt...the road gap is gnarly and he made it look like bunny hopping a curb....
  • 4 2
 Snowshoe is awesome and the course is sick, but "big" is not a word that should be used to describe that road gap
  • 2 0
 He's talking about the new road gap that is not in this video. It's big. Yeah, not the biggest but certainly big. Nice run Trey! You made it look smooth and easy. I'm still working on successfully rolling through the first super gnar garden of lower hareball. I can roll all the tech in whistler, including goats gulley. But lower hareball has stopped me every time. So many holes and tombstones.
  • 1 0
 Yea I was talking about the new/old road gap, its just to the left of Upper Hairball. Its not Redbull big but its a good one!!

The wooden drop at the top really is not much of a road gap, just a drop. Still have to have some balls though.
  • 1 3
 I've never understood why they don't clean Lower Hareball up some. You could pull some of those dumb scree rocks around and it would still be super burly, but at least it wouldn't bring you to a dead stop on a steep pitch. It's sort of a senseless trail to race on. Sure, to say you cleaned it one time is cool, but to run it at the bottom of a race is just odd.
  • 1 0
 It's like the rock garden at Beech but feels like it goes on and on and on and....
  • 1 0
 I never did a race on Lower Hareball that I can remember, except maybe it had dirt on it at some point and don't remember.

But one year, I got to go race there and just felt like riding all day every day, so I hammered out runs on anything I could find for 2 days straight. Wanted to get in a warm up run before my race, so I ducked under the tape and accidentally wound up on Lower Hareball.

Before I could get to the bottom, I just got off and walked the last bit of it, I was so exhausted by that point. Smile
Don't think it's much easier when your body is fresh.
  • 8 0
 super techy rocks bruh
  • 4 0
 The beard, hair and super cheery attitude makes me think this guy was born in the north pole. What a chill dude! Super techy...
  • 5 0
 props to him for making it look fun...I've ridden that so many times and it's sheer punishment
  • 1 0
 Snowshoe has proper DH track. It's freaking fantastic. Quite technical and long and sustained. But I'm guessing it's not quite like Val di Sole or Valnord. Which is fine. There's a reason pros are pros, and it's not just because they do normal tracks faster than the rest of us.
  • 3 0
 super super super! Yeah snowshoe is a blast. Judi chop is one of my favorite trails up there
  • 1 0
 Upper Hareball to Licoln Log is such a fun run. Snowshoe is legit.


Side note, I tried to do some course preview audio and sounded just like this guy, all high pitched and weird. What's the trick to getting it right?
  • 3 0
 this'll be so good. SGS is the BEST!
  • 2 0
 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGYNuoCigGY

this was playing in my head while watching that video.
  • 1 1
 Seeing this veritable benchmark for difficult techie downhill trails in the Southeast looks pretty tame on video, it really gives perspective as to what a UCI WC course rides like.
  • 2 1
 @jm2e not really. If you saw a World Cup ran down that, it would be just as hard and the get offs would be brutal. Don't be silly.
  • 1 4
 ...just as hard? Lots of dillusional love for this course
  • 4 0
 Delusional* says the guy from Long Beach, CA. Anyways, the top Pro GRT competitors that ran a similar course with some variations earlier this year raved that this was the best stop all year. Does this course have sustained steeps like Windham? No quite, but it's longer with a lot more tech rock sections and fast enough for big consequences if you get it wrong.
  • 1 4
 it's flat with weak gaps and a few gardens...

What does being from long beach have to do with it? Besides the few world renowned spots we have locally (e.g. telonics, PGs, skid marks....the list goes on) where pros go to film...I was not just comparing to local tracks.

If this is all you have, great, but it doesn't make it a proper DH race track.
  • 2 1
 Dude, you're in Long Beach looking at a computer screen. It is far from flat. Talk out of your other arse. One 10 second fire road sprint. The rest, you could roll top to bottom chainless.
  • 1 3
 Hah, not worth arguing- if you consider this a proper dh race course then more power to yA.
  • 3 1
 No, it's not an argument @nvranka . You're shitting on a course and mountain you've never set foot on. That's like trying to tell me there's still shit on my ass after I'm the only one who wiped it.
  • 1 3
 Not quite bud- after riding seriously for about 10years and watching thousands of hours of course/riding footage (POV and non), coupled with racing all over, i can confidently critique footage of any course. We have all seen what pov footage looks like of our own trails, and understand how to extrapolate what it is actually like in real life.....this isn't rocket science.

Is this your home course or something? Seem super butthurt
  • 1 1
 @nvranka No it's not my home course, but I've ridden it plenty. But I've ridden DH on both coasts and know that POV tells you nothing about a course. You're talking out of your arse!

Out of your arse....out your arse. Your breath smells like pooh, cause your arse is talking for youuuuuu.
  • 2 1
 Snowshoe was my home course for a decade - I'm happy to be part of the 99.9% who'll say video does no justice whatsoever to the technical sections of this place. I've personally heard the words 'Snowshoe is gnarly' come out of Berrecloth's mouth. Maybe Snowshoe is no Telonics, but come on dude...After relocating to SoCal (not too far from Long Beach actually) I have to say that the thing that bothers me the most here are the people and their attitudes. Telonics and Jedi are great (although dry and blown out), but in general when compared to the potential and terrain possibilities, riding in SoCal is greatly lacking imo because of self-righteous riders who are too busy being negative keyboard jockeys instead of building and maintaining the trails and welcoming riding communities the local terrain deserves. That's one thing the east coast is very proud of; they lack huge mountains but make up for it with community and attitude. The commentary above is proof: if you don't have anything positive to say, especially about a place you have no clue about, shut your mouth and go ride your damn bike Big Grin
  • 2 0
 AMEN
  • 2 0
 Our terrain is definitely underutilized, I'll give you that- primarily a regulatory issue, however. Anyways, this is a bottomless pit, you win, all good...
  • 1 0
 I'm impressed, sometimes his gloves are on his hands. And other times they are on his fork. Different levels of grip for different terrains?
  • 2 0
 Duck Dynasty is into super techy mountain biking??
  • 6 6
 "What is this a road gap for ants?! It needs to be at least three times bigger then this!" what dan Atherton was thinking after this course preview
  • 9 0
 You can't compare the gods the mere mortals.
  • 1 0
 I'd like to keep my scapula intact
  • 3 1
 Its down lower hairball, Nathan Parrish will win
  • 2 1
 So basically just like red bull hardline?
  • 8 8
 This guy's Claudio impression sucks.
  • 4 0
 Claudio is in his own league. I thought this guy did a good job.
  • 5 0
 this guy is not trying to be Claudio...the voice effects are appropriate for this type of track...its bumpy so give the guy a break...if his voice is shakier than claudios
  • 2 1
 Your guys humor sucks as well. Track looks fun, the commentary could use as work.
  • 1 2
 Road gap on upper hairball isn't in the preview? Why not?
  • 3 1
 it isn't part of the course i assume
  • 2 3
 always giving neg feedback, "ya'll" some big cry babies.
  • 1 0
 all i said was it most likely isn't part of the course because it wasn't in the course preview. How is that negative feedback
  • 1 1
 The irony of crying about receiving negative feedback about giving negative feedback. Lol.
  • 1 3
 LOL even making a little statement gets you negative comment from you pu$$ie$, pu$$ie$ will be pu$$ie$.
  • 1 1
 Waaaaaa waaaaaa. Keyboard warrior called me a "pu$$ie" lol. Kiss your momma with that mouth, boy?
  • 1 1
 you use the same language LOL
  • 3 6
 Man, good thing you brought that big bike out.
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