Barrel Roll Trail TR 7/31/08

[theking648]

well after taking a week off because my knee wasn't doing so good, me and some friends rode the Barrel Roll Trail today.. And it is 6 miles of pure hell. Big climbs and rock gardens up and down.
I went down big rock drops but it's the little ones that get you. I went off this small drop on my way down. It’s one of those drops that you don't care about and just cruse off of it. Well I wasn't so lucky. My front tire goes down and just sticks. I go flying over the bars and crash. My GPS goes rolling down the hill and I bend my break leaver.... again, and it's the same one. :roll: I’m sorry I didn't get video of it. I thought I was getting good video of the downhill just before I ate it, but no it was in picture mode. :frustrated:

If you do this trail take lots of tubes. :roflol:
I got about 30 min of video.

It’s super rocky and I don't plan on doing this one anytime soon.. It has switch backs up and switch backs down.

EDIT: VIDEO UPLOADED. like i said before... it looked so much better before i uploaded it to youtube. i'm realy not liking the quality. but this is the first video of the trail and some video is better then no video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLKibv2ds8s



So now I give you the pictures.

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l280/theking648/S5030170.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l280/theking648/S5030175.jpg

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http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l280/theking648/S5030191.jpg

\/\/ this is where I ate it.. I took the picture because I thought I was ending the video... not. O well i still got a picture of it. The red dots mark my path. I think I should have gone to the left more.
http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l280/theking648/S5030195.jpg

http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l280/theking648/S5030196.jpg

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^^ Colton(left) Me(center) Taylor(right)^^


I think we were going to take a week off and try to find a fun one to do in two weeks.

i'll be working on the video and i'll try my best to make them look as good as sombeech's videos.

[Sombeech]

Cool, been hearing about that trail. looking forward to the vid.

[TreeHugger]

Where is this?

[theking648]

Santa Clara, UT.

I'm almost done with the video.

[TreeHugger]

I've never even heard of Santa Clara UT!! :D

[greyhair biker]

must be out west of Santa Clara? or north of the Greenvalley Loop area? I'd ride it!

...north of St. George Tree :nod:

[theking648]

the trail head is about 1.3 miles directly SW of Santa Clara. you just take the new bridge across the river then fallow the dirt road up.

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/barrelroll.htm

The Video is done i've reedited the post ^^


EDIT: VIDEO UPLOADED

[greyhair biker]

just watched the video - this trail looks like it could be out my backdoor(neighborhood) :2thumbs: