hi there welcome to the beaton trail
and in this episode we are going to try to figure out what happened at the flats
now normally the flats is a small park-like area it's a riding area that's not very
popular it does connect to coal hills but when we got up to the hill we are noticing there's a lot
of trees missing and a lot of the old trails that we enjoyed are gone or blocked or non-existent
so we had a large group with us and we just we're gonna drive around and turn around and see exactly
where the main trail goes down to into the valley to see what happened but it
looks like there has been some tree clear cutting going on at the flats
so overall it was just really eerie because i had been here a year ago and i know there
are a lot of changes going on i'll say it and i'll say it probably more than once is we do
pay for permits to ride on land paying trees but it is just a little disconcerting that
all this land is now flat the trails are gone so we kept riding we made our way down to where
the clear cut was and there was just branches and debris everywhere and we knew that further
down ahead we would find the trucks and the machines that were responsible for all the carnage
so as we moved on from the flat area that had been all clear-cut we made our way up and into some
interesting trails and we had been here before and the group came around and we came down the
long way there was uh one of these hills where there was a stubborn rock that just had a real
sharp edge that just yelled out i'm gonna tear the crap out of the side of your ride rock sliders or
not i know that probably was gated at one point it's still on property but i think someone put a
gate up there or a metal cable that was up there but shane still wanted to give it a try and come
on down so caught him doing that short of just a little plastic and fender damage it was good
and just pop a couple pins probably yeah right here
yeah or something that's all right you made it big thanks for frank here for giving us some more
camera footage from his gopro we got to gap road i'm still going up the hill and decided to
go ahead and cross over into the coal hills region which is adjacent
conditions were icy and muddy in more cases it was a lot of mud but still fun
and great outdoors it was 50 degrees
a very warm day we would find that of course up on top of the hills it would be colder but
driving through the pines it was nice everybody had a good time but with a large group we
pretty much were running into a lot of dead ends regardless everybody had a fun time on the trails
foreign
everybody enjoyed some of the mud and a little bit of the flats although we
made sure everybody knew that careful you could get into some really
deep mud this time of year not really sure how frozen it would be but it was slushy and fun
if you want to play in the mud let me know you sure because i'd love to get some good reels
maybe somewhere did you get mud on your shirt
so it was time to get up on the hills and do some climbing and check everything out
here we have miguel cam as he takes a ride up and explores
there were some hay bales put out there was a little bit of seeding
going on they were reclaiming some of the land are rejuvenating the land with some
plants so they had those marked off but the regular rest of the hills were open
everybody had to get in the action and had some fun
unfortunately one wrong turn then you can have disaster
so we got to work and it was a precarious angle since his front left tire had gotten stuck
in a rut and couldn't really return too much so he was kind of wedged in there so it took a little
bit but we got him out and it was very windy up there on the top probably a good 30 mile an hour
wind so we chose not to have the drone up in there for the recovery we just had some footage from the
front of miguel's winching vehicle but nothing like good teamwork everybody got involved frank
miguel paul shane myself everybody took some turns helping out either digging or moving or
winching or counterbalance but either way it was good to see that everybody worked together
pretty timely pretty quick thankfully nobody got hurt and there wasn't any major damage to the unit
so we continue to ride around and drive after we
checked out the vehicle and just the ice and the snow
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cole hills or trevorton the flats what did you think about it we were a bit disappointed that
a lot of the trails are gone now but they're still there there's just no trees everybody who showed
up frank and shane and everybody who drove a long distance had a good time and it was a great ride
so tell us about your experience at trevorton and we hope to see you out there on the trail thanks
you