dave t
05-08-2006, 02:25 PM
Just returned from Vegas and have let those with a lust for riding on the edge know: If you are in Las Vegas and fail to take the short trip down to Boulder City to hit this place, you fk'd up BIG.
Rent a Stinky DeeLux, Demo 9 or Enduro expert from these guys: http://www.allmountaincyclery.com/ and the trails are right up the road.
The website info wasn't perfectly accurate but the shop and guys in it were really cool and helpful. Lots of high end DH/FR rides and gear - pads, pants, shoes, full face helmets.....It's a candy store.
There is a little park shelter w/ picnic tables, restrooms (not just biffs) and vending machines. Check: http://bootlegcanyon.org/
They have a full blown jump park like in the videos with gaps from five to twentyfive feet. Some of the takeoff ramps are paved with cement.
There is a dual slalom course with berms and jumps.
One section of trail (I think it's the end of a DH run) just down from the shelter has, I think, six SETS of doubles. That is separate from the jump park area.
I didn't have enough time to find everything but I guess there is a Four cross track and a wall ride too. Just that I have to say I didn't find it all should tell you something.
I also didn't get to any of the official downhill trails either because of time and that the guys I was with lean toward the safe side and I wasn't about to solo that stuff after seeing how jagged everything is out there. Also, the guys at the shop pretty much begged me not to go on the DH system without a full face helmet, full pads and at least the Stinky.
A bunch of DHrs from California we met at the top of the road (only 2/3 up the mountain) said the Enduro I had would be OK up there but they agreed it would be nutty to go without the padding. These guys were in town just to ride these trails and said they are serious DH trails and not to be taken lightly. They called the section they were riding "the elevator shaft".
Even the XC trails had plenty of drops and technical stuff with many compression dives through arroyos, rocks (some very sharp and pointy rocks especially on the more advanced trails) and some berms thrown in for fun.
The toughest trail I rode was Skyline, above the level of eroded dirt and very exposed with 3 foot drops and 3 foot near verticle step-ups on an 18 inch ledge and it's an XC trail. Two flats (snake bite) and no more time or tubes kept me off Powerpole, what they call XC/DH. Had we not been pretty much out of time anyway, the shop is close enough that I could have been there, fixed up and returned in fifteen minutes.
Rent a Stinky DeeLux, Demo 9 or Enduro expert from these guys: http://www.allmountaincyclery.com/ and the trails are right up the road.
The website info wasn't perfectly accurate but the shop and guys in it were really cool and helpful. Lots of high end DH/FR rides and gear - pads, pants, shoes, full face helmets.....It's a candy store.
There is a little park shelter w/ picnic tables, restrooms (not just biffs) and vending machines. Check: http://bootlegcanyon.org/
They have a full blown jump park like in the videos with gaps from five to twentyfive feet. Some of the takeoff ramps are paved with cement.
There is a dual slalom course with berms and jumps.
One section of trail (I think it's the end of a DH run) just down from the shelter has, I think, six SETS of doubles. That is separate from the jump park area.
I didn't have enough time to find everything but I guess there is a Four cross track and a wall ride too. Just that I have to say I didn't find it all should tell you something.
I also didn't get to any of the official downhill trails either because of time and that the guys I was with lean toward the safe side and I wasn't about to solo that stuff after seeing how jagged everything is out there. Also, the guys at the shop pretty much begged me not to go on the DH system without a full face helmet, full pads and at least the Stinky.
A bunch of DHrs from California we met at the top of the road (only 2/3 up the mountain) said the Enduro I had would be OK up there but they agreed it would be nutty to go without the padding. These guys were in town just to ride these trails and said they are serious DH trails and not to be taken lightly. They called the section they were riding "the elevator shaft".
Even the XC trails had plenty of drops and technical stuff with many compression dives through arroyos, rocks (some very sharp and pointy rocks especially on the more advanced trails) and some berms thrown in for fun.
The toughest trail I rode was Skyline, above the level of eroded dirt and very exposed with 3 foot drops and 3 foot near verticle step-ups on an 18 inch ledge and it's an XC trail. Two flats (snake bite) and no more time or tubes kept me off Powerpole, what they call XC/DH. Had we not been pretty much out of time anyway, the shop is close enough that I could have been there, fixed up and returned in fifteen minutes.