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@Staktup: have the exact same issue. is an amstaff. dog is great with people but losses it with other dogs or animals. I take him on rouge trails that aren't very popular. still feel like I am rolling the dice though. I ended up building a trail just to ride with him but it only lasted about a year till it got put on strava. it sucks because ridding is his favorite thing. after a close call we decided to limit his off leash trail rides very hidden trails. with that breed if anything happens you will get blamed regardless of whos fault it is.. and yeah there are some things you cant train out of those dogs. is a shame because he is so good with people. sounds like your girl has a good home and gets outside. a lot cheers

best video in a while. great riding, amazingly built trails, and a stoked pup. thanks for sharing this

is this really the direction mountain biking is heading?

Nice!

awesome vid. you make that trail look to easy!

One of the better stories pinkbike has put out.

@nation: 100% looking to have a civil conversation, if that is possible on internet forums. I am not as experienced with this as you. to me I feel that people’s general reaction has a bit of overreach. you actually seem to have experience in these matters which is why I wanted to ask you. So I had a c6 burst fracture and c7 laminar fracture. resulted in 50% spinal cord reduction. went to ER took an hr to diagnose. was stabilized given fytanal for pain. ativan as a sedative and then a high strength anti-inflammatory and monitored. was told that once anti-inflammatory was administered and the spinal cord was stabilized that the risk of this getting worse was not a major concern and it was not a supper time sensitive issue. the controling concern was how to transport me to the hospital without further impacting the spinal cord. at this point it was determined that life flight was the best option. took 2 hrs to track down a heli and then 30 min to get to the ICU. was at the hospital 1 hr prior. so, this was a controlled environment and it still took around 4hr to get to the ICU from once I went to the ER. once at the ICU i was monitored and didn't go into surgery for another day. what I took away was that once I was given the drugs and stabilized time was not as much of a controlling factor. it sound like this was the same thought process as what was described above. also, with this incident you are having to transport the victim by hand to the nearest LZ. I have also work as a helitack crew member and been involvedin in 2 instances where people have to get helivaced out of fires with life threatening injuries. 3-4 hrs was atypical time from once the incident was called in to when they were evacuated. in regards to having a heli on standby my life flight cost 20k for a 1/2hr flight (granted this included two paramedics and the cost of drugs) so the cost associated with having a heli on stand by would be very expensive. more important you are removing access to valuable resource without knowing if it will even be used. what happens if there is a life critical accident 1 hr away but now you need to get a heli from 3 hrs away because the closet one is now reserved on standby? My take away is that they definitely need better procedures in place but peoples general overreaction to this is not completely accurate. Yes I know my spelling is the low hanging fruit on this response. cheers

So is this what some of the trails at Darrington are going to look like?