Western New York Mountain Bicycling Association

[Jon Sundquist]

This is a first post. I think the trails database needs this to work correctly!

[mac]

addition to the lounge. Thanks!

[Mark]

Saw a lot of riders out there today, many had started from the training center parking lot. Those that I talked to had mostly ridden part of the race loop and Big Merlin. I was pretty surprised at how dry the race course was on the uphill, but I heard from a few riders that the switchbacks in the woods going down were pretty bad. I expected that and stayed off it anyway. Big Merlin was in pretty good shape. A few soft spots, but most riders tried to go through the middle of them.

[rogeramjet]

Big Merlin is in decent shape.
The White trail bit me once on the shin - great exercise.
Still a few mud holes; should take it easy & hold up for a week or so.

[fattire616]

I second that, rode the race loop to the Rain trail to Big Merlin on Sunday morning both were in good shape. There is a very deep mud hole coming out of Big Merlin Back onto East McCarty so be careful may want to get off your bike, I found out the hard way. Weather report looks good everything should be in decent shape by the end of the week.

[champ]

i was happy to see about twenty five plus people on the trails at holiday on sunday. good weather makes for good biking.

[Joker]

Rode HV this morning. Trails were in great condition. Happy riding.....
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Why...so...serious?

Carolina Blue Skies, Baby!

[litespd]

Hey, I found all those dry trails that are accessible from HV. I rode the trail system that circumnavigates the East McCarty Hill Forest Road starting from HV, and well.......the water temperature was cool, I forgot my swim goggles, I had too much air in my tires and the roots hate me for it, and at one point I thought I was at Snowshoe WV in the spring. Excellent practice for the upcoming Brazilian rain forest 24 hour race though. When will Mother Nature give us a good wind job?? Just after we finally thaw out, now we need a serious dry out. Let me spell it for "her", D R O U G H T already!!
Two years in a row, I don't get it. It's like living in a urinal tray at an all you can drink beer buffet.

Thanks to all those that put in the trail work on the Rain Trail.

South Pale Ale was in great shape last weekend. I can attest to that.

[fattire616]

Eville got a quick downpur yesterday afternoon and it was raining there pretty good this morning. Rode the race loop, Rain and Big Merlin around 6 yesterday. It was not as dry as this past weekend but still rather dry considering the storm that moved through yesterday. The leaves on the trees must have produced a good canopy to protect the trails. It definately wasn't perfect conditions but still "rideable"(depending on your definition of the word). As for needing a snorkle, are you sure you weren't riding Hunter's litespd? :D

[litespd]

Hello fattire06. No, no snorkel was available. I just got back from some
spectacular riding near Asheville NC. Man, what a place.

[fattire616]

Cool, I've read good things about Ashville, NC. Eville was fairly dry yesterday (6/21) did a short ride through the part of the race loop to white trail at the tower to Canfield finishing at Holimont. Quick heavy rain today though, hopefully the trails stayed dry.

[krakerman]

I was in Eville on Friday 7/9. Parked at the tower and rode the white trail up to buzzards breath, mutton hollow, yukons lunch, connector and middle pale ale. It was surprisingly dry, with the exception of connector, and when going up connector, the trail that splits off to the left part way up. Those two were pretty messy.

[Jon Sundquist]

Thanks for the update krakerman. It is info like this that makes this page useful. Connector and the trail that splits off left (if you are looking uphill) are old log roads that can tend to be wet. We developed them into trails by marking them and clearing of blowdown, but otherwise didn't do any work on them. Because these are old log roads, and thus already wide and well used, these are just the type of "trails" to be used in any condition, such as when the singletrack is wet and needs to be left to dry out.

So, how were conditions for 6HOP today? Coudn't make it down myself (conditions at Hunters were pretty good, though). I'm hoping the ultra-heavy usage of a 6-hour race didn't leave them too worse for wear.

[Bill R]

The 6HOP trails should have held up very well. The Rain trail was our only concern, and I doubt there was any major impact there. Mother Nature finally cooperated with us.

[Jon Sundquist]

I couldn't believe it when I talked to Bill Friday night and he said the trails were in good shape. But Bill lives down there and knows when to hit the trails and when to stay on the roads. So after some trail flagging adjustments for next week's work day, we hopped on the bikes. Big Merlin usually dries best, so we did that and 97+% of it is in great shape. 100% of it is better than it was most of last year.

Porcupine still is a little soft but ridable without guilt. Yukon's has the usual spring run off issues.

That's all the single track we did. We also did a bunch of logging roads that were wet in places but not muddy.

Still lots of snow on Mutton Hollow Rd. on the Little Valley side of the hill, and also on one spot on East McCarty Hill.

Though we didn't check, I suspect that Rain Trail, Rim, and perhaps sections of middle and south Pale Ale may still be wet, but overall, things drying faster than you expect one wek after a one-foot snow storm (with not all the snow under that melted yet). Holiday Valley is still open for skiing.