Remember that? Yeah I almost forgot too! With a fucked up time last week after a couple of nice fellas relieved me of my mac, it pushed back an already belated Photo Update. Well all the current picks of submitted photos are on the Build The Woods Photo Comp Flickr and I’m going to be extending the deadline till Monday 20th September 2010 so that gives you some extra time to get thinking and snapping.
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Took this shot yesterday, been overcast and breezy all week making it hard to get a session in. Had Sam and Andy down from Scotland this week, been good times. Rob.
Sideways over Andy
Austin beside the lip and RIchard rolling the landing
Glass, concrete, car parts, bricks, and more garbage then you can believe. We have come across some terrible shit when digging. The absolute worst has to be 1.5m x .75m wide concrete slabs that we come across…the last one took 5 guys.
F U C O N C R E T E
Every single drop of sweat is worth it to me. Riding any jump for the first time is awesome, and the feeling you get when you guinea pig it is even better. Sometimes it takes that push from someone else to put the shovel down and ride the mainline that you’ve been building for 2 months. We started March 1, 2010 and on May 1, 2010 we rode the first 2 jumps of mainline, and we didn’t really know if it was going to work perfect. It’s easy to say that there was some disbelief that anything would “work” at Lucky; it wasn’t jumps in a straight line for them, I don’t think we really have a straight jump yet… it will come, and so will the satellite dish.
Ninja stance shovel fight
Seeds are being planted, wheelbarrows are being fixed, and dirt is piling. 2 months in, and it’s great to have trails after 2 years of nothing. Chucky Bones, is in our distant past, it was torn down by the Province of Alberta 2 years ago, going into it’s 5th summer.
Lucky is working. People are contributing, arguing, building, and learning…the whole process starts again.
Saturday we rode main line, and it worked perfect. Once the landings get rock hard (we have very little, if any clay…yet) everything will work just fine. Everyone’s been diggin together for a while now…some up to 15 years, so HERE’S to 5 more years in the woods. For more posts and other random BMX stuff check out ShuVLBMX.
Lucky Trails
This is the first time I’ve both visited the trails and posted here, so let me introduce myself – I’m Adam, I shoot pictures for a living and I’ve been involved with the mountain bike trails scene (sorry BMXers) for a few years now.
I went down on Sunday with Phil Auckland and spent the afternoon shooting pictures and video, trying to not fall off the roll in, dodging mud bombs, fixing carpet and melting empty Corona bottles on the fire – not a bad Sunday by any stretch.
Hopefully I’ll be posting here more regularly with new photos and edits from the trails from now on and I’m looking forward to watching the standard of the trails and the riding grow over the summer. Enjoy the pics!
Peace out!
Elliot- Tbog
Ell, Twist- First twist at the trails!
Ben- Tdown
Here is a link to a video that Remy made of us the other day :- http://vimeo.com/11136969
Been to the jumps alot recently, with this good spell of weather been riding the jumps. Not all finished but summer is looking good!
A few snaps from the last couple of weeks.
Hopefully we should get a fair bit done this weekend, even if it does get a bit sloppy!
Last time I posted winter pics of a spot called Stony, this time it’s a spot called Hazard. Old location but new trails, its downhill and they should get big fast. I’ll post other spots and updates as digging weather has just begun around here and most of our spots are black dirt and too muddy right now. Hazard is all clay so it was solid, we even scored 3 shovels found under a tree.
Me stacking clay.
Start of shaping.
Three shovels and a bucket we found under a tree, win.
All clayed up.
Big 3rd landing.
