Ashland rules

This past weekend I traveled down to Ashland, OR with a few other dudes to ride some long all-mountain shuttles. Ashland is basically on the border with northern California and is a very small town with a college and some very big mountains. We left Portland at 5am and arrived in Ashland at 9am at a friend's house to warm up on his backyard pumptrack. After a little session we joined two other people, loaded up the trucks and relocated to another guy's house and another pump track. We picked up our designated shuttle driver(who happens to be the local trail builder there) there and were off to the hills.

The first trail we rode was amazing. It started out with a line of 9 massive jumps- doubles, hips, step downs, and step ups. Ranging from 15 to 30+ feet, they were a blast and we sessioned them for a while. After that we rode down some amazingly fast trails to the bottom. The woods here were much more wide open and the dirt was very hardpack and just shy of dusty, which made for very high speeds going down. We were covering miles of downhill in no time. After that long shuttle we headed across the valley to some less-known trails, and for good reason. These were some of the coolest trails to ride, just very high speed with lots of awesome turns and flowy features. Midway down we sessioned a nice double to an even better hip. These trails felt like a world cup course mixed with a roller coaster ride. Big props to the awesome locals for showing us around and Wes for being the most raunchy trail builder ever. We will be back!