Video: First Look at the Proving Grounds Rampage Qualifier Course
Cam McCaul takes a look at the course for the first Marzocchi Proving Grounds taking place on September 8th. The contest has three entry spots for the Red Bull Rampage up for grabs and those who missed out on selection will be fighting for the final places.
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We want big jumps = We want to kill trees and move the dirt.
Yeah pretty crazy how the world is burning up fast and most people simply don't care, I've got no answers for that.
#f*ckprovinggrounds
I personally would rather have some trees than no trees - from an esthetic point of view though....
today.oregonstate.edu/news/cutting-and-leaving-western-juniper-may-lead-increase-invasive-grasses
www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/junocc/all.html
If the “environmentalist” here want to sound concerned- they should be asking: *** I wonder if Kyle Jameson is going to do the responsible thing and re-seed the site with naive grasses and flowers- and not let the whole site be overrun ( and lets be honest here, it already is infested with) Medusa Rye Grass, you know, that super invasive grass that will eventually dominate the whole of state of Oregon east of the Cascades to the point where nothing else exists?? #ignoranceisbliss
And for those comparing it to burning millions of acres in the amazon give me a break. They're not burning anything, nowhere near the scale, it's on private property and I'd argue the event will bring lots of focus on mountain biking, outdoors and building & preserving trails and jumps.
you noobz keep getting more hilarious with each passing story.
They probably cleared the trees by spraying the hillside with RB ...
Seriously what is the point of this event if they are just building more fest series jumps. They should’ve just made fest series into the qualifying event. That way you won’t have to cut down a bunch of trees either. You kind of like the dew tour for bmx (if they still have that). Dew tour was essentially a qualifier for x games.
Can I also suggest future competitions are held at one of the old rampage sites? Just seems to make more sense for the comparative riding, and cause less damage.
Smart builders would try to pick terrain with natural features big enough to test riders and try to minimize impact on the surroundings.
And here we look at 500 trees and huge area cleared just to do course to qualify for Rampage.... Not even simmilar to Rampage, just to some slopestyle course. Hell, they could just use Redbull joyride or other slopestyle courses for qualifiying.
I understand that they need large area for the crowd and all the other stuf... but they could choose terrain much more wisely, i.e. some abandoned quary etc., where they wouldn't have to cut few hundred trees just for a weekend or two of partying. After events will be finished and crowds gone, there will be just large area of dirt left and decades needed for trees to grow back.
I belive that ecological view must also be considered these days, especially with media exposed events, otherwise you are sending message "we just don't care for anything but our fun". Builders - if you look around, you will notice MTB is not the only thing happening in the world.....
My only regret is I can't attend the event because it falls on the week of my Whistler trip this year......yes, please shed a few tears for me :-)
Looking forward to seeing you hit that sh$t
I was like that at one time, too, though. I'd see a clear cut and freak out about how awful it was that the poor trees had been cut down. Then you find out how GOOD for biodiversity a clear cut can be.