Caution on West Ridge Trail, Redwood Park

Multiple Trees Blocking Loop

Rode Up There Last Thursday And There Was 3-4 Different Locations Where Tree Branches Were Broken Off And Blocking Trail. It Appeared Deliberately Placed. One Was Right After First Turn After Skyline Gate From East Ridge To West Ridge That We Had To Dismount To Get By. Rider In Front Of Us Looked Like He Almost Bailed Trying To Avoid It. We Usually Start Up Canyon Meadow To East Ridge To West Ridge And Back.

Deliberately placed?

All anti-mtb lunatics are criminals, some of them are more dangerous.

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The first tree is cleared near Skyline gate, it fell naturally. Don't know about rest...

This one was on West Ridge trail, just a few hundred feet up from the creek. Was going to ride that loop today, but settled on doubling up loops in JMP instead. Hope it's gone, and that no one lost their dome. Curmy, it spanned the entire trail width (which unfortunately says a lot), and was a good 6" in diameter. Though I only saw it long enough to duck under it, my impression was that it fell naturally; had no reason to think it'd been placed there intentionally.

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105millimetersofpleasure said:

Though I only saw it long enough to duck under it, my impression was that it fell naturally; had no reason to think it'd been placed there intentionally.

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I was responding to br8kmywindo assertions. I hope we are not getting yet another lunatic booby trapping trails.

Curmy said:

I was responding to br8kmywindo assertions.

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Ah, got it. Duh.

I didn't see piles of sticks anywhere in Redwood last Friday, but there were big piles in Juaquin Miller yesterday. I'm used to seeing down branches there, but in hindsight, they did seem to be limited to fairly dense piles. I'll keep my eyes open for this a bit more next time I'm up that way. I too hope the assertions are false.