With you on the trail design - and the properties are too massive. Oh well.
I like your idea of having an agent do the heavy lifting, but I can see that being problematic if the agent rings me every week to take a look at properties that are four hours away. I've started to conclude that this will be an 'opportunistic venture' in the sense that I'll probably have to wait until a motivated seller places a steal of a property with an agent and then it ends up on the real estate websites (for instance, a $80K 10 acre parcel at Wiseman's Ferry that may have fit the bill was snatched up in less than a week while my wife and I were talking this over). Price and location will dictate motivation enough to make lengthy trips for viewing. After all, there's never enough hours in the day.
Being a health professional - You won't be disappointed!
You bring up good points. I'm no EMT, but I am an emergency first responder at work and I've had to perform some pretty bad trail rescues back home. The emergency plan is absolutely necessary even if there's no riding involved (there are no snakes where I grew up and I'm pretty leery of them).
When using the land tax calculator brought up before, I've placed $500k into the calculator with a zero result. That doesn't seem right. Is there a method of determining land tax available or is it a 'per case' basis?
My first visit to Awaba, a dirt bike rider destroyed parts of the downhill trail in the middle of our shuttle run. We could hear the motorbike but couldn't do anything about it. I've seen how badly one asshole on a dirt bike can rip up a trail here and overseas, which is another reason for using thin unavoidable skinnies to link trail segments together. Skinny timber platforms that kink have prevented dirt bike riders from proceeding on trails back home (especially if the trail starts with a filter). It won't keep everyone off, but it will reduce the damage. Seems like there's always trail repair needed. I've fixed the tight hairpin corner on the black trail option at Hornsby three times now. If the trail I build gets discovered, I'm sure I'll cop a bit more maintenance. More reason to be selfish and not tell other riders of the location.
I love the passion- and had thought of similar ideas myself - Perhaps build a couple of helicopter pads as well
Well, you do kind of bring up one of the driving factors behind this plan, there is plenty of xc out there. To be perfectly honest, I've tried xc and it's not for me. I might be getting older but I still need my fix.
I'd probably ensure that there was a large clearing on the property in the event of a medivac, and my wife would like me to pick up a plb if I go out digging or riding on my own. When we were riding in the Pacific Northwest, we'd be in some extremely remote areas (and illegal areas) as well, it really wouldn't be a new thing for me. That aside, the emergency plan would need to take into account self-applied first aid (which I do have training in) and lengthy waits. Hell, it took almost two hours to get a mate to Gosford hospital when he broke his ankle at Ourimbah. I can imagine how long of a rescue effort it would be on some god-forsaken private property in the middle of nowhere.
Wouldn't it just be easier/cheaper/less stressful to make a trip to Canada every year or so?
I already do that. My family and friends are still there. I can't really wait 330 days to get my riding fix. Besides, I married into a large Italian family and they (the younger ones) might be interested in using the property for camping. I have quite a bit of support.
the logic of making your trail dangerous to keep people off it (the way a lawyer may look at it?) is flawed. - (features can be big without being dangerous
I suppose I could elaborate on this, the features and trail wouldn't be dangerous to keep people off it first and foremost, it would be difficult because that's what I want. It's an additional benefit if the trail is too difficult for a lot of folk. I agree that features can be big without being dangerous but those trails are already available and I get bored of them pretty quickly.
I would love to build the trail out of all-natural features, but that means I'd have to use deadfall to build the skinnies, which really limits how I build that segment of trail (and that's if there's any deadfall available - back home there's millions of naturally felled trees and here there's not).
If you own the freehold to the land - find where you stashed the body.
Being married to a large Italian family has it's benefits. I'm sure we could come up with something.
out:. So i would suggest having something that is much closer otherwise you will spend all your time repairing the track and none riding it.