Trail Updates

There are trails that are too senstive to stay included in the App. Two of these are:

The Ancient Line Trail.
&
The Red Dot Trail.

Apparently, both are illegal (ALT) or Sort-of Legal (Red Dot) and sensitive.

The last thing I would want to do is to jeopardize access to any trail. So scratch these off your mental list, please.

thanks.

They WILL still stay on MBB until Apple makes the next update to it. Then they'll drop off (and be replaced by more entries you didn't have before, as previously discussed).

App Customers!

First of all, thanks for buying this app I wrote.

But second, I got a bit better understanding of my publisher's computer system the other day.

I thought that you would get immediate updates any time I loaded new riding spots onto the system, but in fact that is not the case. Instead, the publisher waits until there's enough new content that they feel it's worth submitting to Apple again.

So, you'll get more trails added to the App, just not immediately, and it'll come as a larger update, rather than 1 spot at a time.

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

And in response to an earlier post: I found a really nice smooth singletrack trail at Bradley Palmer SP- leave a comment if you'd like details...

Microtech vs. Macrotech

I thought of a new way I'd like to start describing trails, today. The trails of new england are what I would call microtech- sharp rocks, slippery roots, and other small trail imperfections that make you focus on every foot of trail. There's a section near the river at Bradley Palmer SP that illustrates this perfectly. Enough roots, that are tall enough, and just moving forward is a chore.

This is opposed to what I would call macrotech- a sharp hill that requires technique to climb but is tricky in a much larger way (not more difficult, just physically larger) than microtech. Moab's slickrock trail might be a good example of this sort of technical riding: struggling with a natural feature, not the acual riding surface that approaches the feature.

I wish we had more trails like the latter. I love the former, but sometimes I feel like it gets a little frustrating and it certainly makes the hills and such more challenging!

The key: speed over the microtech to ride the macrotech!

Update on BP Waterfall Ride

I just wanted to quickly mention that I went to the location (sans bike) of this ride last night and was forcefully (and not very nicely) told that in fact the sides of the river here are property of Foote Bros. Canoe Rental. Private property!

So, for your own good, App Customers: DO NOT THROW ROCKS NEAR THE WATERFALL!!