Here an example of what I'm talking about with Sals and how I think the Sals trail committee is sleep walking backwards .
This is the section of the red trail before the 3B's and right before John's connector trail. This is the upper red just after you cross the power line.
This is the very first trail I worked on at Sals. John and I worked on this and the other crew worked on the Spanky on the other side of Consitution.
We cut out this giant rose bush to give access to this trail which was really and old trail of some kind made by a bulldozer. At the time it had a pretty smooth surface. We had to move away some huge rocks so you could ride on it. With wear over time water started running down this entire trail from the end of the fast Luby section on the other side of the powerline all the way to John's connector trail. This has severely eroded the trail so it is becoming a poster child of what you don't want in a trail.
Its has bad soil that eroded and its full of death cookies now, Plus there are some big sharp rocks right next to the trail that should be moved away from the line for safety.
I was working on this tail last spring and was riding to check on it last June when I had my bad crash near dodson. I wasn't in the bike club at that point, I had too much of the administration and decided to move on.
I almost rode straight into the tree on the left near the top in 2011 when I was trying to set a fast time. That ended the ride and made me want to revise this trail.
I have a good design to change this starting back from the Luby's trail. The Sals trail committee is so do-nothing they are the last people on Earth I would recommend this revision to. The revision would be better. I watch riders ride this section and they basically go slow with the brakes on its so chewed up.
If you want to get anything done at Sals I would recommend dumping the tail committee and going back to having a trail boss that actually shows up and works there every week. I was the trail boss for 3 years and we put in almost 2 miles per year of new trails. Its time for some reroutes and revisions, but you'll never get it with the administrative CF you have now
