Video: Breckenridge's New Slalom Trail

Sep 4, 2013 at 15:13
by Rachel Zerowin  
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Rocky Mountain rider Kevin Soller cruises down Breckenridge, Colo.’s Slalom Trail, which was finished with volunteer help from the Summit High School mountain bike team as the snow began to fly last fall. It’s an important connection between Breckenridge’s existing trail systems – it’s been designed to be flowy and sustainable, unlike the old trail, which didn’t drain well. Together, Flumes and Slalom make a sweet lunch loop and serve as a key route to get riders out of town and into the backcountry.

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  • 9 1
 Nice to see sustainable flowy trails going up on public land, especially from town. Work sucks. Riding at lunch makes it all better.
  • 5 0
 I think the morale of the story is to be thankfull that your community cares about public land! Also Really cool that the high school team helped construct this! This means sustainable trails for the future! I wish my HS bike team would do this!
  • 5 1
 I love the comments knocking the Breck trails. What is YOUR community doing? Would you knock your local municipality (think Government - not bike club) for doing the same? Breck is embracing a sustainable model, many miles of trail have been built within the last 5 years alone. And Kevin is a super rad dude - anyone who says otherwise simply doesn't know what they're talking about.

Get over yourselves. It's just dicking around on a mountain bike.
  • 2 0
 Yeah Kev! Too bad over half the video is upper flume. new side door next? @mullbags there isn't a ton of uphill traffic on slalom. maybe one uphill rider in my last 10 or so rides down it.
  • 1 0
 Those of you that don't live here really don't understand what the trails here are like. I am pretty bummed however because the last berm coming out doesn't have any trees now, and was completely logged, they left branches all over the trail. Very sad.
  • 3 3
 I agree, flow trails "ARE" sustainable when built properly, but this really isn't a "flow" trail in the true sense. Swing and a miss Breck. Keep trying. Buy a bobcat with a backhoe, and start putting in quality flow trails. They'll last a lot longer (sustainability), be a lot more fun, and bring in more tourist to spend money (sales tax). Eventually you have to tell the die hard naturalists to "Shut the F up".
  • 3 1
 Flow Trail..blahblahblah.. I'm sick of all the yellow brick road BS. Natural terrain rules!
  • 3 1
 yea breckenridge! before i broke my collar bone this was one of my favorite quick loops!
  • 4 0
 Good job Kevin
  • 3 2
 yeah dont bother go to keystone or ride near by colorado trail
  • 1 0
 Ya! K Soul-er!
  • 4 6
 Breck takes out all obstacles and makes trails that were once fun really boring. Fail.
  • 1 2
 Pretty sure you'd be breaking every 50 yards because of uphill riders
  • 7 9
 About as uninspiring as watching paint dry... down what looks like an access path.
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