Was away on the tour de inlaw while the Gang rode the classic Crown Point trail. This is one of my favorites and I was sad to miss the ride, but I knew that the GoPro was making the trip so that I could watch the fun and games. Well, the GoPro kind of let me down. The video it took would not play in any of the many players I tried. Turns out the header for the movie was not written(geek speak), a common problem when you shoot in 1080p. Anyway, 12 hours later, a perl script and hex editor and a different video editor and I finally got something to post. The climb up Malde Creek road seems like nothing compared to getting that video to work.
Enough geeking. Crown Point is named after an old mine in the vicinity. There is gold in them there hills and we are still mining the golden flow of a motherlode single track trail. It follows a drainage down the mountain side and visits some very unique and natural features. There are some huge old growth trees that have fallen and provide natural skinnies to ride. There are rocky ridges and drops take you down into the creek bottom and then the creek provides organic burming. You feel like you are the water meandering through the woods. Crown Point also has the most man made bridge work of any KCTS trail. This helps getting over the many swampy areas. Just too much fun.
Jumps, skinnys and bridges, a gold rush of mountain biking. Check out the VIDEO. Scott T. was carrying the GoPro and he rode like a pro. Thanks Scott.
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