Phil Says?

It’s official. The all knowing whistlepig, Phil saw his shadow. Six more weeks of winter weather. If you don’t believe in Phil’s wisdom of weather and the changing season you must have no sense of adventure. Trust Phil, the whistlepig doesn’t lie. We hope Phil is correct because the deeper and longer the snow cover stays on the jumps the less frost damage will occur. And durring a northeast winter a deep frost and unthawing and refreazing soil is the big jump destroyer. The snow is a blanket protector for the trails which some younger builders don’t understand. Let it snow Phil says, let it snow.

Groundhog Day

February 2nd is a special day for trailbuilders especially in the northeastern US due to the fact that a groundhog predicts the length snowy winter weather will continue. Accordding to the tale on this day a famous groundhog, or as we call him whistlepig, named Punxsutawney Phil crawls out of his hole to see whats up. Depending on whether the sun is out and the whistlepig sees his shadow, or its cloudy with no shadow will decide if winter will continue for 6 weeks or not. Basically Phil is a nervous little fellow this time of year so if he sees his shadow he is gona shit. Then wait for 6 weeks to come back out. If its cloudy he will leave his den and search for food. While Phil lives in a Pennsylvania zoo where the famous prediction is decided our own family of whistlepigs is hibernating beneath the trails. We love these little dudes and protect them as part of the trails. Whistlepigs are the ultimate!

Christmas Day Dub Runners

Merry Christmas.   Their was some reindeer and sleigh tracks off some of the bigger dubs.   Santa must have had some fun.   HO, HO, HO.

Winter Solstice

Winter has officially arrived today. With it the shortest daylight of the year. We have been snow covered for a month and winter is just getting going. Snow will be falling on us for the next three months so the trail blog will sleep as the bears sleep. April we will awaken the beast, and trail photos will florish once more. Winter action will be limited to roasten snowmobiles and maybe burning some brush. We will keep the site pretty minimal so not to be an advertising billboard repeating other blogs info like some websites that do that. We will just do our thing. Durring this slow winter blog update season make sure to look through the archives to view all the sick pics we posted this year.

Rye Airfield BMX Contest

Rye Airfield is hosting their 2cd WICKED JAM AM/PRO Contest Dec. 5th and 6th. This is going to be such a good event this weekend, Johnny is even going, and it takes quite alot to drag him away from the trails, no matter what the weather is.  The Pro finals are schedualed for 3PM Sunday Dec. 6th. For more details go to www.ryeairfield.com. See everyone there.

Sabbaday Falls

Sabbaday Falls is a more popular venue as it is located just off of the scenic Kangamangus Highway as it is easy to hike a short distance on a graded dirt road.  Here Johnny’s cousin Ashley chills near the top pool.

Kendron Falls

Kendron Falls is a series of small unique waterfalls and cascades. Nothing real big but we still loved to explore them.  Kendron Falls is located in Crawford Notch.

Ripley Falls

Ripley Falls is also located in Crawford Notch only a few miles from Arethusa Falls. Another amazing waterfall.  Two smaller unnamed waterfalls are located upstream of Ripley Falls.  They are both also quite nice waterfalls to visit.

Coliseum Falls

Coliseum Falls is located just downstream of Arethusa Falls, and is a nice bonus when hiking to Arethusa.

Arethusa Falls

Arethusa Falls is located in Crawford Notch, in Harts Location, NH.  Here is a few pics during low water flow and a few with high flow.  This is supposed to be the best waterfall in NH.

Lye Brook Falls

We love waterfalls in NH, and we went to quite a few this summer.  This is Lye Brook Falls located in Manchester, VT.

New Construction

We did some work on the sixth landing of Overkill last weekend.  Here is how it looked.

 

 

FALL VIDEO

The 2009 Fall Video is on Vimeo.com so go see it! Follow this link and get fucking siked! http://vimeo.com/7755972