blue hills mtn. bike day

[smashitup]

will they run the lifts for a littlt dh action?

[C.P.]

This HAD to be edited - bad memories of a BAD day...If anyone remembers, I was really mouthing off to Smashitup...and to sum up what I should have said -

there are no DH trails anywhere at Blue Hills...

[toneetouch]

cp, i see you're really good at being a snob, but next time try directing a newbie to some good beginner dh trails before getting on your pedestal.

[C.P.]

Hey Smashitup,
Hope you didn't take offense to my reply. Tonee welcome to the forum, I don't know of any beginner DH trails. With that I open this thread to any one else that can help tonee and smashitup find some beginner DH trails.

[EVIL BOTA]

Now fellas play nice. Noobs their are no Beginer DH hills. Your going to have to hit the real slops and practice there. Or better than that.Do more cross country/free ride and ride places like Nam or Lynn woods.Plenty of excitment @ either..

[zach11979]

I think it would be a great idea to run the lift on the weekends. All they would need is some volunteers to build a mtn-x course and carve few trails through the rock gardens(The ski trail under the lift would be great) and it would be a sweet place. It could be very successful with cheap lift ticket prices and its proximity to Boston.

[bdee]

I agree it could be financially successful (location, lift) but I imagine there would be some stiff resistance from the anti-bike crowd. I've never found the Hills to be super bike friendly (I'm speaking of other trail users, NOT the staff). I hardly get a response when I'm hiking there (about once a week during the spring/summer/fall) when I say hi to other hikers.

[Mr Magoo]

No argument that the vertical opportunity is there, but between the trailside museum and the weather observatory, 99% of the hiking miles are logged right there on the red dots. Conservators are very strict about sticking to existing trails, (hence, no singletrack in BH) and the threat of 40lb rigs mowing down cub scouts or juking horses is insurmountable here. You'll have to earn your turns by climbing the paved access road. The ski area is closed to bikes.

[smashitup]

oh well, so i guess they arn't running the lifts. the reason why i asked was that i heard a romor that once they did.

[Slider]

You cold pedal to the top of Big Blue in the time it would take the lift to get you there!

But I have a better idea for a freeride park in the area. There's big, capped landfill where 495 and 95 meet. I am guessing it is 200 feet high. It seems to me that you could make great use of that space by creating a bike park. If you did it right, you could get pretty long downhill run, taking the diagonal down one side. Add in some slalom courses, a half pipe or two, and otherwise wasted land would be reclaimed for the tax rolls.

I suppose there are issues about all that activity releasing nasty stuff from beneath the cap, but that should be addressable somehow.

Weeknight slalom or mountain cross under the lights would be pretty cool, yes? Any entrepeneurs out there?

Slider

[zach11979]

There's a definite need for a freeride park in MA. CT has one opening up and NH will have one at Rye Airfield soon plus Attitash and also Mt Snow in VT, but there is nothing in MA. If someone builds it we will come.

[tmorash]

Hello fellow Blue Hills riders! It seems that the relationship between the riders and hikers is relatively benign at this time and most people seem to follow the rules of the Hills. However, I am surprised by the amount of bike trash I encounter. No, not folks in Gucci riding outfits on matching dual suspension bikes, but discarded tubes, etc, on the trails. I know a lot of you do, but make sure you do your part--pick up the trash as you go and remind the jackasses as you catch them.