GoPro!

Last week I bit the bullet and invested in a GoPro HD Helmet HERO Camera … Among other things this will enable me to more easily compile photo collections of various stretches of trail for this site. Initial impressions (things that weren’t obvious from...

BAM recon 2 and 3 of 4

I rode most of the rest of the BAM route this week, staging out of the Elk Creek Trail Head. It seems the best route (there are several depending on where you are coming from) to the trail head is to hit Sturgis on the way and head up Vanocker Canyon, making a left on...

BAM recon

Parked at the Piedmont City Park today in Piedmont, SD and rode up Little Elk Creek, past Dalton Lake and cleaned the first ridge. This makes up about the first 10 miles of the Knifeblade Rock and Roll 35 mile cross-country mountain bike race/ride that is part of the...

BHFTF

Traffic to the site is up considerably, no doubt as a result of attendees of the Black Hills Fat Tire Festival checking things out. Welcome to town from PahaSapaTrails.com, we hope you enjoy your stay! Had a good little rip at Storm earlier this morning, quite damp...

Victoria Lake Loop (15 mile)

Yesterday we (myself and Sam R.) made an easy pace around the 15 mile loop at Victoria Lake, taking nearly three hours of riding time to cover the 15 (16 really) miles. This was my first time around this particular loop and it makes an exceptional ride, everything is...

Trail images coming

I spent a bit of time this weekend writing some scripts that will cross-reference my entire flickr library with my entire collection of GPS logs and geotag any photo that was taken while riding. I now have almost 500 trail photos ready to put on the site, as soon as I...