Dakota Ridge trail Colorado (Mathew Winters)

Black diamond rated.

http://www.singletracks.com/trails/p...d=28&photo=158

This trail, you see to the right of this photo? If you fall, that's a
100 foot drop or more. And this photo is one small section where it
isn't rocks. The rest of it is rocks, and still this narrow of which
100 to 200 foot drops.

Mathew Winters is part of this trail, Mathew Winters is to the right of
the road you see in the photo, and it's congruent to Dakota Ridge in
that Mathew Winters is all rocks too, and Red Rocks Trail, they're all
one circuit.

When you master riding (clearing a section) stuff like this, it's
indescribeable. It's a feeling of great conquest, in that you maximized
your ability to interpret and negotiate extreme difficulty in extreme
miniscule amounts of time, of which if you screw up you get severely
hurt.

Ride-A-Lot has made it clear he's not a extremist, or a free-styler,
but he isn't getting the satisfaction of confidence & mastery of his
psyche by continuing to avoid attempting trails like Dakota
Ridge/Mathew Winters. He said he did HorseThief Trail in Colorado, that
is compareable to Dakota Ridge, but he said he'd never do it again.

Bad attitude Ridey!! As I said, once you master the tool (the bike),
and you master your perception & interpretive skills, the exhilleration
of MTBing is indescribeable joy. And it's free aside from the hardware.
That's what makes it better than skiing, although skiing rocks!!

Those 3 foot wide trails with a 200 foot drop to the side of it as in
the picture above, is pretty damn scary though. Hopefully I can get
Mike Portnoy up here and throw him off the side, MUHWAHAHAHAHA...!!

LIBERATOR wrote:
Black diamond rated.

http://www.singletracks.com/trails/p...d=28&photo=158

This trail, you see to the right of this photo? If you fall, that's a
100 foot drop or more. And this photo is one small section where it
isn't rocks. The rest of it is rocks, and still this narrow of which
100 to 200 foot drops.

Mathew Winters is part of this trail, Mathew Winters is to the right of
the road you see in the photo, and it's congruent to Dakota Ridge in
that Mathew Winters is all rocks too, and Red Rocks Trail, they're all
one circuit.

When you master riding (clearing a section) stuff like this, it's
indescribeable. It's a feeling of great conquest, in that you maximized
your ability to interpret and negotiate extreme difficulty in extreme
miniscule amounts of time, of which if you screw up you get severely
hurt.

Ride-A-Lot has made it clear he's not a extremist, or a free-styler,
but he isn't getting the satisfaction of confidence & mastery of his
psyche by continuing to avoid attempting trails like Dakota
Ridge/Mathew Winters. He said he did HorseThief Trail in Colorado, that
is compareable to Dakota Ridge, but he said he'd never do it again.

Bad attitude Ridey!! As I said, once you master the tool (the bike),
and you master your perception & interpretive skills, the exhilleration
of MTBing is indescribeable joy. And it's free aside from the hardware.
That's what makes it better than skiing, although skiing rocks!!

Those 3 foot wide trails with a 200 foot drop to the side of it as in
the picture above, is pretty damn scary though. Hopefully I can get
Mike Portnoy up here and throw him off the side, MUHWAHAHAHAHA...!!

LIBERATOR wrote:
Black diamond rated.

http://www.singletracks.com/trails/p...d=28&photo=158
SNIP
Those 3 foot wide trails with a 200 foot drop to the side of it as in
the picture above, is pretty damn scary though.

I usually ride that trail on 1.5 slicks. It's hardly "black diamond".

CowPunk wrote:
LIBERATOR wrote:
Black diamond rated.

http://www.singletracks.com/trails/p...d=28&photo=158
SNIP
Those 3 foot wide trails with a 200 foot drop to the side of it as in
the picture above, is pretty damn scary though.

I usually ride that trail on 1.5 slicks. It's hardly "black diamond".

Liar. What kind of bike do you have? When do you ride it? Show
pictures.