New Singletrack in the Victoria Lake Area

[sam i am]

I heard that the Forest Service will be adding about 18 miles of new singletrack around the Victoria Lake area to the 2013 MVUM.  I do a lot of mountain biking also (admittedly more than dirt biking) and lurk around on the local Black Hills mountain biking forums often.  There are about 30+ miles of mountain biking trails in the Vic Lake area that have been extensively maintained and ridden by the mountain biking crowd for a number of years now.  Recently some of the brown fiberglass "motorcycle-only" trail markers (and the pink ribbons found on a lot of the new motorcycle-only-singletrack) started popping up on a few of these trails (one of the new trails is marked TR6706).  This has the mountain biking crowd sort of uneasy and worried.  So I thought I'd just give the heads up to anybody who was planning to ride any of these new trails that you might have a few angry mountain bikers trying to throw sticks into your spokes.  Might be a good idea just to avoid the new singletrack all-together until things get worked out with the mountain bikers and the FS.

Sam.

[Bogus Jim]

We saw the motorcycle trail dozer in the Lake Victoria area (772.1?) today, as well as some pink ribbons that weren't there before. So I figured FS must be marking some new motorcycle single track. Thanks for the heads up on the multi-use situation Sam.

[drdon]

Have you seen the trails they put in behind Johnson's Siding.  Some of them are pretty Gnarly

[Fletch]

Have you seen the trails they put in behind Johnson's Siding.  Some of them are pretty Gnarly

been riding them the last few weekends, they are great!!