Last winter, amidst all the rain and snow of Bellingham, we decided to head south to the Oregon coast in search of better weather and ripping trails.
Our first destination was Pacific City, where we met up with Josh from Bros. and Hoes Landscaping. We were lucky enough to ride his private system of trails that consisted of flowy machine built trails, jump lines, and raw loam tracks - the perfect terrain for the Scout.
After a day of riding, and an evening of hitting the dunes, we drove to seaside Oregon where we had high hopes of becoming surfing legends within a day. Once our spirits had been sufficiently broken down in the seaside surf, we peeled off our wetsuits in favor of biking clothes, and went for a pedal at the Klootchy Creek Trails.
On our way back to Bellingham we stopped for a quick ride at Capitol Forest where we encountered the exact weather we were trying to escape. Once we hiked through the snow we had a very wet final lap before we returned to Bellingham.
Collectively filmed by TR Characters
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Skye Schillhammer (Marketing)
Hannah Bergemann (Marketing)
Drew Arnold (Sales)
Oliver Parish (Photographer)
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Please, more about this amazing 'private system of trails' Is this tempting terrain a place people can (pay to) go like an Oregon Coast Gravity Park, or is it just for the coolest of the cool kids? Cheers!
I was sure she’d be on it for RedBull formation, again disappointed.
I cant wait to see her ripping PNW loam, and Blue Steel jump lines aboard that bike.
The Spire is meant to be longer, and slacker than the TR, so “hoping” for sure
Doesn’t diminish the hope though!
I hope to demo that Scout there someday
The trails just aren't good when compared to real good trails. The berms are too shallow of angle, even though they are big. Many of the berms are in the wrong location and formation to work well. The jumps are almost all doinky small Bland jumps With little character and clearly built by people with little expertise in jumping.
Sure lots of people who dont know better will appreciate alsea, but Pretty much any one with a well developed taste for trail will recognize those trails are relatively lame, whether or not their honest enough to admit it.
For how big of a project alsea is they really managed to make very little noteworthy trail.
Oakridge's forest service switchback trails also mostly suck. Because the corners arent rounded, they intentionally make corners awkward with rocks on inside of corners. There are long sidehill straightaways with very few Curvy turns.Sure there are a few fun turns mixed in but its like you could ride 20 miles of trail and basically have Only 3 mile of bangin' trail in it all.
One of the main problems with oregon Trail building Culture is everyone so devoted to patting themselfs and their buddies on the back liken"sick send, great job" they refute and get butthurt at any criticism and think their shit dont stink. Theres so much good building to take Insperstion and que's from, but most of the mediocre pudgy egotistical weekend warrior trail builders cant seem to see beyond their own ego's and limited scope of experience or desire for weak ass green trails they call black.
The thing about it is a well rounded True expert or Pro level rider can make a trail thats fun for intermediate & casual riders, but a true intermediate rider (like most of them) lack the vision and skill to build trails that will reward speed and also create options for faster riders to thive.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but Mt. Hough burned bad this past week. Won't know the extent of the damage for a while.
I didnt say what is or isn't "acceptable". It's pathetic of you to attempt to twist my words.
without lot's of knowledge, experience building and riding trial and error one is u likely to produce a noteworthy and well built line for discriminating high level riders, unless the stars align.
Haha i aint your dude.
I said alsea sucks, then Chuckicious asked me why I think that, and i explained it to him.
No i am not going to help team derp or the D.O.D. (Doddling old dudes) I said my piece of constructive criticism but it seems most of them are beyond help. Honestly i have much better places to contribute my digging energy than some shithole like alsea, sandy ridge, or whypass.
Oakridge's terrain and access could be cool if there were people there who were willing to build a network of good unofficial trails and improve the existing FS trails in a way to make them better for bikes; but it seems most are nincompoops with poorly developed trail taste. If anyone were to do anything cool i imagine asshats like you and those who just put away the 71* head angle singlespeed hard tail and got an "enduro bike" would Probably tattle and destroy good trail thats above your skill level.
I know 20+ people that build out there and though you're entitled to your tiny pp opinion, your presentation spoke to your character or lack of one. Now, I'm sure Bellingham is a nice place, and like most nice places they have their token a*sholes and it looks like I may have found it. Wait, what was that noise? Was that your mom with your hot pockets? better go git'sum Oh, and if by chance you do come South announce yourself "MTB GAWD" arriving, it will be hard to recognize you with your head buried to your shoulders up your ass without help.
I have not ridden there, but hear that the Whiskey Run Trails near Bandon are worth a visit.
I've also seen good things about Whiskey Run, will definitely be checking it out.
you didn't have to murder @Inertiaman like that, but holy hell was it appreciated! party on! lolololololololololol