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Flow- Rider: Ashton M. Smith Film/Edit: Aviel Hod

Getting ready for the 2013 season, testing out the new sled, and enjoying the santa cruz mountains.

27 Comments

  • + 6
 nice video buddy. to all the people bitching about "secret trails" get over yourself its a trail in the woods and if you hadn't made a big deal about it nobody would have even known that it was secret or what city it was near.
  • - 5
flag bmar (Apr 25, 2013 at 15:44) (Below Threshold)
 Word. BTW, I'm pretty sure these trails are in Canada, gotta love it this time of year. Sheesh people. Get your geography straightened up.
  • + 3
 The trails are in the US
  • - 1
 Sick video. And if you really dont want a trail to be found, you dont tell anybody....Pretty basic. No go pro footage, no homies who arent that close, no one besides yourself and the trail-builders. If not, do not get pissed when the trail gets blown up....And you know what actually got CS lit up? Was a bunch of dudes from the bay and san jose bringing all there friends up there. Same with shuttling ucsc. Places like belmont- so dont be eggy.
  • + 2
 DUDE I LOVE THAT APTOS TRAIL!
  • + 1
 Great trail and sick riding. But not so easy on the eyes. What camera did you use?
  • + 1
 Probably too short for vod, but has m4ym potential.
  • + 1
 Great EDIT ASH! Super flow!
  • + 2
 Sick edit man
  • + 1
 Ashton with the loamy shred! lookin smooth
  • + 1
 Very nice Ash. Love it!
  • - 1
 way to film the 2 most secret trails brah way to fucking go
  • + 1
 first off, I will never tell people where they are, second, CS is not secret, that place is always super busy, and 3rd off, Im very careful when up there, unlike all the idiots who leave cars up there with bike racks, yell at roadies, etc.
  • + 1
 and since its right off of one of the main roads in Aptos people are bound to find it.
  • - 8
flag jarunk (Apr 24, 2013 at 9:39) (Below Threshold)
 now your telling people where it is the comments???? what a shame hahahahaha
  • + 5
 I would never have known these are secret trails if you hand't have said anything jarunk..... Sick riding man, love that area!
  • + 1
 not the point, one of the trails in here is now shut down because there was so much traffic on it, when I was shuttling with just my car it was cool, then people started to be already riding there when we got there, and coincidentally a ranger kicked us off the trail THE DAY ashton was filming, its people who invite them selves to other peoples trails, tell everyone they know and start fucking posting it on the internet and shuttling it with out permission that piss me off........ now I can't ride the trail that is closest to my house, a ranger that had previously been ok with just us shuttling has taken down my plates, and all because 100 thousand fucking people started shuttling the trail for the 2 weeks we were working on it, someone stole a couple hundred dollars worth of shovels from me too, so fuck you guys i have every fucking right to tell u fuck off
  • + 2
 and btw the people that showed you these trails did not even put a shovels worth of dirt on this trail
  • + 3
 runky.... we both know the ranger had nothing to do with me. We were dropped off quietly and always stop before the trail end.... unlike the guys who rode down to the road as the ranger drove by.... dont blame me for that. Also, that whole system has been under careful watch for almost 8 years. Obviously, you made a rad new line there, but the existing stuff is old. The complaints have been coming from the XC trail guys who dont like the fact that you built features right across their trail... and a few others (mostly roadies) Its not really secret when it interrupts a trail that has been there almost a decade.... A bigger problem is that it is VERY close to some other illegal trails that have been a HUGE issue for the city of Aptos with MTB guys for quite some time because it is a hiking trail.
  • - 5
flag jarunk (Apr 25, 2013 at 20:59) (Below Threshold)
 iknow fuck that xc fool i guarantee he took my tools, he could have just said something to someone and i would have made sure that their OG line was rideable but they took my tools before i fucking finished
  • + 4
 btw not a bad video props lol
  • + 3
 damn dexters! and Thanks.
  • + 5
 So basically what I'm getting from this conversation is that tricks, marks, mark ass tricks, mark ass marks, skips, scaps, scallywags, skeezers, and trife ass hoes got the trail shutdown.
  • + 0
 si senor i beliveev that would be a good summary, but theres some pretty dope editing too i have to say
  • + 0
 f*ck all the bickering beef. Know when your poaching. dont poach, and most of all, just dont poach. Dont bitch and groan about blowin up trails, thats entropy, keep it loc and just ask yourself when your riding any of these trails "am I keeping it real?" unfortunately most people probably arent cus theyre poaching or just dont even know how to use a shovel. respect the holy grails of riding in these mountains
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