yeah --- finally, we're done with that winter crap.... moving on into spring. we had a few days of warm weather and rain... all the snow is gone now --- trails were near perfect today.

 Nice to haer that man! Finally you guys will gonna ride!

 I wanna see the elevated u-turn horseshoe bank turn between 2 trees.

 I don't do it very often --- it's not part of my protocol but, every so often I'll buzz a tree at the trunk and use for support --

most likely, the tree will continue to grow so, the feature will eventually need to be tweek'd as the tree grows. --- I use the rest of the tree that I cut down for additional support beams (nothing goes to waste). i.e. I just don't randomly go walking about cutting down trees.

 I hate cutting down a tree unless it really is necessary, I would much rather walk around for a while to find a fallen one and drag the wood back to where I am building. I try and use the natural terrain to decide which lines my tracks will take, but sometimes if you come across a nice natural downside or kicker that you want to use, you find a tree is in the way and it just has to go. But I agree that if you decide to cut one down then you should always try and use every inch of it in the construction of what you are building. Cut two small ones down yesterday but it was for a very good cause lol

 yeah --- that skinny is really long now a lot of it is freestanding so riggin' it to a tree really helps "the cause"... for what it's worth, that tree was not very healthy, it had a funky split in it a little higher. That's about as big as I'll go as far as the of tree I'll cut for a feature. but yeah, I will use up almost all of the rest for sure --- there's a few sections early on the skinny that need more "postage". --- soil is really soft right now cause it's been such a wet winter. there's a section that needs some extra support.