Our Jam

This is my friend Norm relaxing

Today was our Spring Jam at Sunset and it went off more rediculous than i could have hoped. The Still Young Barn guys were in attendance along with Tyrant and quite a few guys i myself hadn't had a tea party with in over 14 years, others... i have only ridden with briefly at their own trails, only to return to sunset and hack everything and start over. Almost all of us had ridden at MassSkateCoalition skatepark together some time ago, a place.. I believe we all hold dear to our hearts. Sunset has gone through many rebirths, seemingly seasonally. My heart is feeling well as my friends and i were finishing sentences of stories that spanned years. Memories that cant be replaced, places ridden and long gone, new kids starting in old places, and grown up kids doing what we thought we knew new eveything about a long time ago. We all go through many rediculous things in life that we think noone should have to deal with in this world, and all of that is gone when you get a group of guys together that remember every part on every bike they've ever owned. These guys i'm proud to say are my friends, and they make the hike to ride this bike path i built. and if anything ever were to happen...good or bad, i know i could call on em. These are the trails and this is what Local Trails do.
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Sunset Jam: April 21

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Sweet Rear End!

Thanks Beau and Andre for swingin through and puttin the time in so you can put your time in!

middle earth at sunset is covered with jumps and ready for andres jam! look at those tiny wallrides in the distance!

middle earth at sunset.

Clay line took me about 100hrs (this year)

Andre' jam is this sunday and i havnt heard from the many but sunset is tarped and ready, last minute preperations the day of or night before will be limited to water and butttering. the leaves are poppin and spring has me feeling normal again.  Diggin today the neighbor strolled down, lettin me know if i needed anything, if i broke a shovel, thirsty... anything dont hesitate. It's things like that i never understood when i was younger... i mean this guy watches me everyday, haulin trash out of the woods, havin visitors park all over the place...  he diggs it, a beautiful labor of love he calls it. "noone wants to grow up, its overrated and rediculous", hell i brought up the athol jam simply because my friends were all riding with their kids. i give the neighbor one more season before hes down there with his boys building rollers and burms. i'm pluggin away guys, ranchers wanted! last day of prep! andres goin to china!

13 to 30 in a little bit of a wink.

Cody Witt has moved away from sunset but i hear him everyday i'm there.

a long time ago i lived next door to a really cool guy, he screamed like a cartoon character to people on skateboards as he pedaled by... coming from where, and going to..., these were things i never really would know until i followed him for myself one day. to the end and past dead end street...down into the woods, steep paths, over foot bridges made of old motorcycle crates (stolen under cover of darkness), back up hills eventually leading to a safe haven, "paradise" i called it. Big holes, burms to ride around, and a tree fort. Too Cool! i was 13. for the rest of my time on earth i will always cherish those days in the woods with my old friends. As ridiculous as the induction into the cool club was... riding naked, getting chased naked, being the bungee cord holding both weasils car doors closed the entire ride to Dracut Mass to ride M.O.D. It's as if they are frozen in time to me, always staying with me, with every shovel full i throw, i hear the SCREECHING criticism of a thousand weasils, a hundred SHOWTIME's, i hear Joey P. scream at his Huffy Super Deluxe every time i see someone new case the second jump in mainline.

Lev moved to Vermont and i still got the gift of a visit from him now and again.
Lev and Cody's broken  bike parts make our wheelbarrow.

 My 8 years at camp woodward seem like a dream now.  Everywhere i have moved over the years i have always managed to bring a little bit of Mt. Tom with me, building trails wherever i went, but never gave it my full attention. With 3 "real" jobs i guess i still don't. but i give it the same praise i did when i was 13 because it saved my life, which i take very seriously. Some of the friends i hear arn't riding anymore, and i miss them for that, but for those of us who are, who still have the passion for real comrodery, BMX, and food cooked over fire... The Ranch is ours. and i am here with a mess of the old troops, and a few new ones, that fuckin Shred!

united colors of RANCH.

Tyrants poster! so siked!

JAMMY!!!!!!

Seems we have a bit of a spring rush!!! no mud season brings dryness, i dropped some sparx on the ground at work and caught the entire lawn on fire.... we got ourselves into a twin spring jam.
Andre will be leaving for China to ride for Monster energy drinks doing shows on april 22nd so we will be having a jam on the 15 which Shawn Howard will most likely be at. unfortunatley our Tyrant family cant be here until the 21nd so there are your showdown dates. get in touch with me with any questions, parking will be at Monahans Excavation as it was last year, bring meat for the grill.... we dont want no hungry divas in the woods!