Having worked on the trails for decades It is refreshing to see more people coming out to work on the trails. I have worked with the LL crew a few times but have plenty of work on the trails I work on. They were invaluable on a recent weekend restoring a segment of the Yerba Buena Trail Thanks to Travis and Matt and all the lowelifes who came out. I can't wait to see how our repair held up to the recent storms
Great video. I am a trail builder out in east Riverside County. Hemet. Simpson Park and the Mesa offer amazing single tracks. Come on out anytime, will give you a tour. Your trail looks amazing. Reminds me of the Santa Ana River Trails SART up in the San Bern. Mnts. Fun part of your video, the camaraderie among the trail builders. We are all alike it seems. I have made some of the best friends in my entire life doing this.
@Mine Adventures check this out. My wife and I are the owners of OMM. We graduated from Hemet High back in 1990. I used to ride my BMX bike from Valle Vista up and down the fire roads to Thomas Mtn in the 80s. Rode an early pre mtn bike hybrid at Simpson Park a couple times. Moved to Oregon long long ago. Volunteer thousands of hours with Central Oregon Trail Alliance and need a thru axle for our BOB trailers, so we started The Robert Axle Project. Thank you for your trail work, contributing positive outlets for kids in the IE.
We loved hosting OMM at our trail work campout in the Angeles National Forest! Thanks so much for featuring Lowelifes, and for all the support for our work over the years! ⛏
I met Matt a few years ago at Lightning Point while riding through the Santa Clara Divide Road. He was a super cool guy and very welcoming when I rolled up. Very thankful for everything Lowelifes are doing, thank you guys. Can’t wait to ride this trail.
Good stuff!! I used to ride Mendenhall up about 5-6 miles and turn around. You guys reminded me of Mountainbike Bill and after checking his site it looks like he updated his site as well.
From one of the original BOB guys it's great to see our Yaks and Ibexs at use in the area that we grew riding which also inspired those trailers. Great video.
Man, You boys n girls are much appreciated for your work. I love hiking and mtb’ing as much as I can. Many times I carry a bag and pick up trash on my hikes. You guys putting in hard work so people can use fir better mental health is so admirable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thanks for all the volunteer work building and maintaining trails! Condor Peak trail sounds fantastic, hopefully I will get a chance to ride it one day but it is not in my neighborhood.
Amazing work. I did a few events with the PCT Gorillas, but all they let me do was swamp Poodle Bush and I'm allergic, so I stepped away. They are also awesome workers tho. Do you guys ever work in the Santa Susannas? The recent floods pretty much destroyed the Rice Canyon Trail and East Canyon Trail and I know MRCC does not budget much for trail maintenenance or stewardship. Maybe they could use your help?!!
So cool! what a great crew doing amazing things. Ive been lucky enough to ride a few of their creations & the trails are as full of fun, character & integrity as the Lowelifes I know.
I went out to LA in late March ended up doing this Temeculla to Sullivan loop on a Stumpjumper. I did see some singletrack, but it was a bit rough and unkempt. Thank you for doing the work!!!
This was pretty epic grass roots small community repour building. I like the idea of teaching people how to work while camping, also the food looks so tasty! thank you very much.
Great job guys so much appreciated I have heard of your great work through word of mouth and to see the above clip is super cool, Keep at it be safe and happy hiking and Thank You 🙏
Thanks for sharing,,, good on you folks for maintaining those trails... Our trails up in the North fade away due too erosion and over growth,,, theres no way too keep them maintained since most folks are too busy with life and all... Kind of a shame but that's the way it goes since everyone wants good trails but no ones intrested in helping keep them up... Thanks again for all your efforts all... Don Parsons from Western Canada 🇨🇦
Was going to head out that way to hit the trails with my cousin, but he got his mountain bike stolen. Quickly changed my mind. Beautiful trails and weather....shame.
This is the type of story telling we need for the work that Lowelifes and other trail crews do in Southern California. Thank you for putting the effort into creating this. Great work and perfectly edited.
Lowelifes, thanks so much for all your work on Condor Peak! I rode part of the trail once in early COVID days and it has so much potential. I was put off by a couple of things: The initial exposure in the first part is pretty bad so I kept on switching between HAB and riding. Is that the worst of the exposure or is there more to come down the road? Also, is there anywhere better to park than the trailhead? When I went, my car was the only one there and with the illegal dumping going on in the area it felt very exposed leaving it unattended.
Anyone know the model of that demolition hammer? Would be interested on which model they went with. I'm sure there is a tradeoff of tool weight vs power. I saw there is one from Dewalt that is over 40 lbs without the battery!
we hauled out a generator to Yerba Buena Trail slide area on a quietkat trailer and used a less powerful hitachi demolition hammer along with the LL's battery powered one
Well I've never seen a bmx or dh rider claim he wants to be paid for the jumps/trails they've built. I've met people who spend 20 hours a week maintaining trails for free
Not true at all and is why trail organizations get formed. Moutainbike trails are low on their priority list and the amount of stakeholders that have to be dealt with in order to get a sanctioned trail built can be insane. Cities also don't want extra liability which is why northshore type stunts are often not allowed. They generally do have incentives to get people using parks.
@@janeblogs324 Sure but then you hear of their work getting thrashed or them getting into issues because they failed to get permission from stake holders and then when they create liability aka if someone gets hurt on that unsanctioned jump line then guess who gets sued. Most dirt jumpers know the game and most DH folks also know that if they built northshore skinnies or ladders or bridges that they are on borrowed time.
This title is extremely confusing, I _think_ it was addressed in the first minute of the video, but I still don't think I fully understood this title as a thesis or how this video agued it. I initially didn't click on this video because I was expecting to hear a crotchety old hiker argue that mountain bikes were bad for trail culture and possibly LA as a whole.
As a trail builder from canuck land (northshore) seeing you guys tear into a mountain side is disheartening. You shouldn't have to cause that much destruction to create a trail sorry to say. It is better to incorporate the landscape into the trail than build the trail through the landscape.
As a trail builder with 12 years of professional experience. That's pretty much what trail building is. What these folks are doing is rehabbing an old trail that fell out of use for some reason. That land was already impacted and they are just making an old trail ridable again. Feel like this comment is a little misdirected. There are probably 100s of projects happening now or in the planning process that are going to rip up mountain sides to put in trails with mini excavators and you are saying these people are being destructive for chiseling away at some rock. With the increasing popularity of mountain biking we do need those new trails that are being built. Or i should say, the land does. One of my favorite quotes about trail building is " people don't need trails, the land does". A properly built trail incorporates drainage, encourages people to stay on the trail, and minimizes the future impacts on the land created by people. (A lot of those trails in the north shore were built by people tearing into mountain sides, by the way)
As a hiker/backpacker, I see tons of mountain bikers with no etiquette. They bomb down blind trails, I've seen multiple backpackers run over, no understanding that uphill travelers always have the right of way, the knobby tires tear up the trails, and they braid trails by going around puddles. There are bad hikers as well, buy they don't do nearly the damage to trails and they don't run over people. They are all over the PCT which specifically bans mountain bikes, but they don't care.
Trails are great. But it sucks to see old rock being defaced and rocks thrown over embankments into habitat. More traffic and low wildlife focus trail building isn't quite a solution.
I spent a good portion of my life building and carving out trails in my local area in So Cal, now it's been turned into a preserve with wild Karen's everywhere telling people what kind of bike they can ride and when they can come. F them. On the other hand, what you are doing is amazing keep up the good work.
Having worked on the trails for decades It is refreshing to see more people coming out to work on the trails. I have worked with the LL crew a few times but have plenty of work on the trails I work on. They were invaluable on a recent weekend restoring a segment of the Yerba Buena Trail Thanks to Travis and Matt and all the lowelifes who came out. I can't wait to see how our repair held up to the recent storms
What an amazing spotlight love my rack and your vibe old man mountain keep it up baby!
Thanks y’all - you are the bomb !!!! Come ride the Tetons in Wyoming 🙏⭐️👏👏🚵♀️🙏❤️
Y'all are awesome!!! Great work for your community.
So awesome! Thanks, Old Man Mountain for coming out to document this great volunteer work
Rad film. I def need to check this trail out sometime!
Great video. I am a trail builder out in east Riverside County. Hemet. Simpson Park and the Mesa offer amazing single tracks. Come on out anytime, will give you a tour. Your trail looks amazing. Reminds me of the Santa Ana River Trails SART up in the San Bern. Mnts. Fun part of your video, the camaraderie among the trail builders. We are all alike it seems. I have made some of the best friends in my entire life doing this.
@Mine Adventures check this out. My wife and I are the owners of OMM. We graduated from Hemet High back in 1990. I used to ride my BMX bike from Valle Vista up and down the fire roads to Thomas Mtn in the 80s. Rode an early pre mtn bike hybrid at Simpson Park a couple times.
Moved to Oregon long long ago. Volunteer thousands of hours with Central Oregon Trail Alliance and need a thru axle for our BOB trailers, so we started The Robert Axle Project.
Thank you for your trail work, contributing positive outlets for kids in the IE.
Your post pretty much blew my mind!
Hell Yeah!!! Love to see this on here.
That’s a great team of people 🙂👊🏻✌🏻
Amazing work can’t wait to check out condor
6:31 I almost died at that spot once. I had no idea there was a crew even working on those sections.
LEGENDS all of you!
The more I look into this, the more I want to do this as my job or just to help out because trails mean so much to me.
Beauty. Nice work team
We loved hosting OMM at our trail work campout in the Angeles National Forest! Thanks so much for featuring Lowelifes, and for all the support for our work over the years! ⛏
thank you for all the work you do. I take you folks work alongside with MT Wilson MTB Association for some trails?
@@Alex_564 Yep, we collaborate with MWBA as well as other crews in the ANF. There is plenty of work to go around!
@@lowelifesrcc thank you.
I met Matt a few years ago at Lightning Point while riding through the Santa Clara Divide Road. He was a super cool guy and very welcoming when I rolled up. Very thankful for everything Lowelifes are doing, thank you guys. Can’t wait to ride this trail.
Good stuff!! I used to ride Mendenhall up about 5-6 miles and turn around. You guys reminded me of Mountainbike Bill and after checking his site it looks like he updated his site as well.
Loved this! I completely get it. I do trail work in Sullivan Cyn and rarely see any other people actually willing to pick up a shovel. God bless y’all
Awesome. Thanks for all the hard work out there!
From one of the original BOB guys it's great to see our Yaks and Ibexs at use in the area that we grew riding which also inspired those trailers. Great video.
Man, You boys n girls are much appreciated for your work. I love hiking and mtb’ing as much as I can. Many times I carry a bag and pick up trash on my hikes. You guys putting in hard work so people can use fir better mental health is so admirable. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thanks for all the volunteer work building and maintaining trails! Condor Peak trail sounds fantastic, hopefully I will get a chance to ride it one day but it is not in my neighborhood.
Amazing work. I did a few events with the PCT Gorillas, but all they let me do was swamp Poodle Bush and I'm allergic, so I stepped away. They are also awesome workers tho. Do you guys ever work in the Santa Susannas? The recent floods pretty much destroyed the Rice Canyon Trail and East Canyon Trail and I know MRCC does not budget much for trail maintenenance or stewardship. Maybe they could use your help?!!
I love this!🚲
So cool! what a great crew doing amazing things. Ive been lucky enough to ride a few of their creations & the trails are as full of fun, character & integrity as the Lowelifes I know.
I went out to LA in late March ended up doing this Temeculla to Sullivan loop on a Stumpjumper. I did see some singletrack, but it was a bit rough and unkempt. Thank you for doing the work!!!
Awesome
So freakin awesome
Shout outs to all those volunteering their time to build the trails we love
Great story! I had no idea.. This crew is epic...
Right?!
i really appreciate those people who makes the trail more accessible by creating paths. kudos to u guys
This was pretty epic grass roots small community repour building. I like the idea of teaching people how to work while camping, also the food looks so tasty! thank you very much.
I’m seriously having a FOMO attack. Love and respect to all.
An excellent film. Restoring the trails also restores a bit of faith in human nature.
Mountain bikers like our fun rough.
Cheers
thank you!
This is great!
Right on! Thanks for your service to the community.
Thank you for what you are doing!
What a great project🙌
Cool 👍 thanks for sharing and thank you trail builders 💙
Thanks for watching!
The unsung heroes doing the dirty work so that the rest of mountain biking community can enjoy. THANK YOU!!!!
Great to see and amazing work from you all!
JUST SUBSCRIBED!!!!
Thanks!
Strong work, Lowlifes!
inspiring. keep up the rad work crew. cheers!
Awesome work! ⛰️
Thank you! Cheers!
Great job guys so much appreciated I have heard of your great work through word of mouth and to see the above clip is super cool, Keep at it be safe and happy hiking and Thank You 🙏
Thanks so much!
Great story, God Bless the Trail Builders.
Thanks for listening
Super!
I don't live in Cali, but I love what you're doing for your community, keep it up guys!
Thanks! Will do!
Thank you Lowelives🤙🏼🤙🏼keeping the trails dialed
This is awesome. you guys are rad.
This is awesome guys👍🏼🙏🏼.
Amazing!
Thanks for sharing,,, good on you folks for maintaining those trails...
Our trails up in the North fade away due too erosion and over growth,,, theres no way too keep them maintained since most folks are too busy with life and all...
Kind of a shame but that's the way it goes since everyone wants good trails but no ones intrested in helping keep them up...
Thanks again for all your efforts all...
Don Parsons from Western Canada 🇨🇦
Was going to head out that way to hit the trails with my cousin, but he got his mountain bike stolen. Quickly changed my mind. Beautiful trails and weather....shame.
Nice work 👍👍
Amazing work! Do you guys do any Ventura county work? Thank you all for your service!
We don’t… our focus is just on Angeles National Forest.
For Ventura County, check out CORBA, SAGE Trail Alliance, and LPFA.
Southwest Germany is waving a hand...💯👍🙋♂
This is the type of story telling we need for the work that Lowelifes and other trail crews do in Southern California. Thank you for putting the effort into creating this. Great work and perfectly edited.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Troopers!
Lowelifes, thanks so much for all your work on Condor Peak! I rode part of the trail once in early COVID days and it has so much potential.
I was put off by a couple of things: The initial exposure in the first part is pretty bad so I kept on switching between HAB and riding. Is that the worst of the exposure or is there more to come down the road? Also, is there anywhere better to park than the trailhead? When I went, my car was the only one there and with the illegal dumping going on in the area it felt very exposed leaving it unattended.
There are a few spots to park. Near the FS Big Tujunga fire station would be the safest, but you’ll be adding a few pavement miles to your ride.
@@lowelifesrcc That looks like a very workable alternative, thank you!
Is it OK to ride e-bikes on these trails? That greatly expands access for us old-timers!
I use a Norco Fluid A1 w/900w battery though I mainly stick to the fire roads there are no ebike restrictions I know of
Anyone know the model of that demolition hammer? Would be interested on which model they went with. I'm sure there is a tradeoff of tool weight vs power. I saw there is one from Dewalt that is over 40 lbs without the battery!
Yes it’s a heavy Dewalt, but it’s battery powered!
we hauled out a generator to Yerba Buena Trail slide area on a quietkat trailer and used a less powerful hitachi demolition hammer along with the LL's battery powered one
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Why are you throwing everything in the river??
cities don't invest in trails and maintenance because they don't see them as profitable. they rather invest in condominiums and shopping centers.
Well I've never seen a bmx or dh rider claim he wants to be paid for the jumps/trails they've built. I've met people who spend 20 hours a week maintaining trails for free
Not true at all and is why trail organizations get formed. Moutainbike trails are low on their priority list and the amount of stakeholders that have to be dealt with in order to get a sanctioned trail built can be insane. Cities also don't want extra liability which is why northshore type stunts are often not allowed. They generally do have incentives to get people using parks.
@@janeblogs324 Sure but then you hear of their work getting thrashed or them getting into issues because they failed to get permission from stake holders and then when they create liability aka if someone gets hurt on that unsanctioned jump line then guess who gets sued. Most dirt jumpers know the game and most DH folks also know that if they built northshore skinnies or ladders or bridges that they are on borrowed time.
Pushes everything into the waterways 👀
"Packing out yucca?" Huh? Why?
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This title is extremely confusing, I _think_ it was addressed in the first minute of the video, but I still don't think I fully understood this title as a thesis or how this video agued it. I initially didn't click on this video because I was expecting to hear a crotchety old hiker argue that mountain bikes were bad for trail culture and possibly LA as a whole.
As a trail builder from canuck land (northshore) seeing you guys tear into a mountain side is disheartening. You shouldn't have to cause that much destruction to create a trail sorry to say. It is better to incorporate the landscape into the trail than build the trail through the landscape.
It’s no different than building freeways, railroads, etc. on hillsides via heavy equipment and explosives?
As a trail builder with 12 years of professional experience. That's pretty much what trail building is. What these folks are doing is rehabbing an old trail that fell out of use for some reason. That land was already impacted and they are just making an old trail ridable again. Feel like this comment is a little misdirected. There are probably 100s of projects happening now or in the planning process that are going to rip up mountain sides to put in trails with mini excavators and you are saying these people are being destructive for chiseling away at some rock.
With the increasing popularity of mountain biking we do need those new trails that are being built. Or i should say, the land does. One of my favorite quotes about trail building is " people don't need trails, the land does". A properly built trail incorporates drainage, encourages people to stay on the trail, and minimizes the future impacts on the land created by people. (A lot of those trails in the north shore were built by people tearing into mountain sides, by the way)
you ever tried building in socal? its pretty much all granite/rock unless you build in a gully
As a hiker/backpacker, I see tons of mountain bikers with no etiquette. They bomb down blind trails, I've seen multiple backpackers run over, no understanding that uphill travelers always have the right of way, the knobby tires tear up the trails, and they braid trails by going around puddles. There are bad hikers as well, buy they don't do nearly the damage to trails and they don't run over people. They are all over the PCT which specifically bans mountain bikes, but they don't care.
Trails are great. But it sucks to see old rock being defaced and rocks thrown over embankments into habitat. More traffic and low wildlife focus trail building isn't quite a solution.
I spent a good portion of my life building and carving out trails in my local area in So Cal, now it's been turned into a preserve with wild Karen's everywhere telling people what kind of bike they can ride and when they can come. F them. On the other hand, what you are doing is amazing keep up the good work.
The title is misleading, almost didn't watch, thought it was anti-mtb.
But I'm glad I did.Got to ride it
More awareness can be generated if all trails are opened for eMTBs. Keep the restrictions and nobody will care.
I don't think that "nobody will" is accurate. Maybe "I won't" is the wording you were looking for. I'm not sure.
Cringe
Inclusivity, does that mean no free thought allowed? Sounds like fun.