Alsea Falls: No Dig No Ride - Video
Quite some time has passed since we all furiously voted on the 2015 Bell Built grant that went to the East Coast Urban Wilderness Gravity Trail with 26,619 votes. However, behind that wonderful victory, many trail systems had to put their great big plans on the back burner. One of which was Alsea Falls in Oregon.
Built and maintained by Team Dirt along with the BLM, Alsea made a short video in hopes of winning this grant to gain funding for their Chutes and Ladders project. Sadly they did not win but that has not stopped the progress at Alsea. They are continuing to grow and develop into a wonderful trail system that is for riders from a beginner to a expert level, and they are very proud of that despite not having an extra $100,000 in their pocket. But you know what they say, no dig no ride and that's exactly what they did.
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Alsea Falls: No Dig No Ride is a short documentary that looks into the inner working of Team Dirt, the local trail building group who is partly responsible for the trail building and maintenance at Alsea Falls. The film features Eric Emerson, one of the board directors and lead builders who tells us what ales has been up to since the final vote of the 2015 Bell Grant. In addition to generating more traffic at Alsea, they are hoping that with the new trail editions, Alsea Falls can really become another must ride spot on the map.
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Happy trails
-Ryan Lund
MENTIONS: @RynoProductions
Built and maintained by Team Dirt along with the BLM, Alsea made a short video in hopes of winning this grant to gain funding for their Chutes and Ladders project. Sadly they did not win but that has not stopped the progress at Alsea. They are continuing to grow and develop into a wonderful trail system that is for riders from a beginner to a expert level, and they are very proud of that despite not having an extra $100,000 in their pocket. But you know what they say, no dig no ride and that's exactly what they did.
Alsea Falls: No Dig No Ride is a short documentary that looks into the inner working of Team Dirt, the local trail building group who is partly responsible for the trail building and maintenance at Alsea Falls. The film features Eric Emerson, one of the board directors and lead builders who tells us what ales has been up to since the final vote of the 2015 Bell Grant. In addition to generating more traffic at Alsea, they are hoping that with the new trail editions, Alsea Falls can really become another must ride spot on the map.
Happy trails
-Ryan Lund
MENTIONS: @RynoProductions
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Also, what is "tech-flow"?
Whistlepunk at Alsea Falls is marked as blue on Trailforks and black on MTBProject.
I would expect the outcome of the Chutes and Ladders project (that's the project name, not the intended trail name) to be of a more moderate rating at the start. Once we get the ladder drops fabricated and installed the difficulty will increase correspondingly.
Where does the new trail connect to the road?
After flagging comes approval (hopefully) followed by the build-out, which is your best chance to see it early. Nothing quite like riding something you've helped to create.
Sandy Ridge has a lot more rocks than us. We had to import ours this summer into Whistlepunk. 35 tons and a lot of labor from Team Dirt and Northwest Youth Corps volunteers plus BLM and IMBA staff.
Good point about the rocks, and that explains the "power wheelbarrow" I saw up there last fall.. I actually think rocks are overused on a section at Sandy that is either the end of Rock Drop or beginning of QPF (they blur together). The natural rockgarden is excellent without the added "rock sidewalk" section. And there is too much gravel in spots on upper Rock Drop and lower Hide n Seek.
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Keep checking back on our progress, or feel free to join us in a build day. Like Eric said in the video, we always need more volunteer assistance. If we can keep things going we have a long-term goal of 30 miles of trail in the next few years. That would be twice the mileage that exists out at Sandy Ridge. Right now we're at about 7 miles, almost 1/4 of the way there.
We also keep our next build day updated in the MTBR Oregon forum and to the Team Dirt and "Corvallis and area Mountain Biking" Facebook groups.
www.facebook.com/events/2088631404751768