Our BC Inspired Trail “Skidmarks” is Officially Open!

Skidmarks is a mountain bike trail built in 2023. The trail is located in Bolton, Vermont at a network called The Driving Range. At the Driving Range, every trail is adaptive mountain bike accessible. The build of Skidmarks is largely BC inspired and is a black diamond – double black diamond rated trail for adaptive and two wheeled bikes with optional pro line features throughout. My wife, Hailey and I built this trail as volunteers and we are very proud of the work we put into it!

Skidmarks T-shirts : https://philkmetz.com/skills-with-phil-store/skidmarks-shirt

Grand Opening Event Page : https://www.richmondmountaintrails.org/skidmarks

Building Skidmarks : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzZW3ETdJHyV1wTAmtNHgx4wSS4B6iB18&si=6tGTMjk_YR5omuV6

all right so haey and I are about to do the first top to bottom lap of skid marks so we’re actually at the start of the trail that leads into our Trail uh called heavy duty and that it’s heavy duty into skid marks interpret that however you want if you like poop jokes you’re un luck uh anyway uh skid marks is a trail that haly and I built over the past year we did it totally as volunteers so if you want to help support our efforts we have a t-shirt made skid marks that’s the name of our Trail we worked with a local graphic designer to make the logo and they will be for sale so I’ll leave a link in the description below the grand opening of the trail will be on June 16th of 2024 GT will be there there will be a bunch of small local companies if you are a small local company to the Burlington area and you want to get involved with the grand opening let us know and we’ll rope you in the more the marrier we would like to have a bunch of uh small local businesses at the event and uh it should be a good time anyway without further Ado let’s uh get on our bikes and go do a quick lap okay am I blinking now or you’re blinking now okay all right so I’m going to have all the big aines this STP so this will be skin marks with all the proline Proline features Proline Proline Proline Proline Proline Proline all right let’s do this all right so we come around here go around the drop so this is a Volunteer Trail and this is called heavy heav duty all right and this is where skid marks begins so come in to the diving board drop nice and slow a bit of a triple there if you want this is a bit of a flow section little burm Gap optional line here all right this is a double drop it’s called a double drop because there’s two drops all right this is the rock roll line or tree pinch Line This is a rock roll all right you can yank this PR far all right this section is super cool slow down for this turn all right one last Pro Line and we’re done we do big features [Applause] woo that was my first time hitting all the big lines in one go I’ve hit them all just I’ve never shung them together I went too far left yeah W that was fun that was good I uh went a little bit far off the diving board but not bad all right so that’s skid marks again if you want to support the efforts that haly and I have done we’ll have t-shirts for sale soon for the first like month or so we’re going to be donating all the proceeds of the shirts back to Richmond Mountain Trails and uh Link in the description and we’ll see you guys soon June 16th June 16th All Right One Last Thing Before I Let You Go if you want to see the building process of of the trail we have a whole second Channel dedicated to Trail building where we covered the trail build start to finish from flagging to being done with it if you want to see that I’ll leave a link to that in the description below the videos are a little bit longer and documents a whole different aspect of mountain biking than you see here on this channel and people really seem to like them anyway that’s where we’re going to leave off this video hopefully we’ll see you on June 16th and yeah have a good weekend peace