So parks have just disassembled the features on scealeys/wallaby hop
This was a ripper little 3min descent, tucked away from the main loop and further obscured by a horrible climb that only the dedicated would bother with. It was chock full of little achievable jumps that came at you so furiously it was hard to string them all together perfectly so runs always had a bit of excitement about them. It was always an unsanctioned trail, but was recently legitimized which gave a little hope that it was not going to be destroyed like the stuff on the other side of Wellington road.
I usually jump in to defend what happens out at lysty. It's my local and Ive been on and off building and mainting there for years. Parks have made us sanitize features in the past, usually in reaction to a few ambo visits for the enthusiastic but underskilled. It sucks to dumb down a feature, but we get a very broad demographic here and I'm just stoked to have this on my doorstep.
But there's almost always been consultation and we've done it ourselves and replaced offending features with something agreed on. This time it was just done. It was there on Sunday and now it's a flat track, might as well ride a bloody rail trail. Writing was on the wall I guess, almost straight after being legitimized there was people climbing it, then signs appeared saying it was a dual purpose, dual direction trail and that descenders were to give way. This is a massive step in the wrong direction IMO, makes you wonder how long till it happens to other trails.
Fark it, time to move somewhere good. How's plumbing job prospects in Bright?
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