Managed to get out for two laps at the JHMR bike park at the end of the day today.
**Warning - heavy criticism below**
They could definitely use a break from the rain, I'm surprised they were even open TBH. A couple trails are dry but it's not a very extensive bike park, so I'd say about half is closed right now. I accidentally ended up on short portion of a closed trail and am kinda confused why there isn't any trail work being done on the wet spots... Sure, you can wait for them to dry out, but in our current pattern that might be a month from now. I don't understand what the trail crew is doing all day TBF. Maybe they're understaffed (actually I'm sure of it) or get different tasks from higher management, IDK. But these are easy areas to drain and the ones that aren't are short enough they could pop a piece of plywood down and call it good for a week, it ain't rocket surgery.
Next issue, they completely reworked (see botched) the jumps on Bandit. Like, they are almost just rollers now. That fucks up "hot laps" on Tewe because you could at least put together an upper Bandit and then hop on True Grit for a half decent jump run. Now there's no advanced trail to string that together. I'm all for beginners having trails to work up their skills on, but not in favor of dumbing down trails. Make more if your park is lacking progression... Yearning for the extension to Deer Jump, looks like they've done some work on that but who knows when it will open. Still no advanced line from the top of Sweetwater that gets you to the top of True Grit other than Dirty Hairy, and that kind of sucks.
The icing on the cake was getting shut down on last chair when I was already through the RFID scanner and about 8' from the chair when the lifty slaps the "last chair" tag on the one directly in front of me. It ain't like there was a lineup, I was alone with no one near me. Classic JONG lifty move there.
