J.E.M. Trail ~Video~

Michael Paul said:

I didn't plan on putting a video together for this trail
from our (Miles, Sorni, non AMB regular, myself) trip to
Vegas and Utah last month since my camera turned off for
more than half of this trail. Unfortunately, the part that
got misses was some fantastic ST along the Virgin River
with the edge of a 40 foot vertical drop a constant
reminder five feet away on your left not to mess up. The
views were stellar. We did this as a point to point
(A.K.A. shuttle but it was justified) since we had already
ridden 4.5 hours on Gooseberry Mesa. ONe of our members
volunteered to sit this one out which meant he coudl drive
the vehicle from the drop off spot at the top of the hill
to the pick up spot at the bottom. That left us with a 36
minute, almost totally downhill but all ST run to finish
out the day. Except for the stellar views, the areas of
trail missing from the video were very much like what you
do see. Some more rocky sections but by and large the
trail was nice, buff, and pretty fast at times.

But, since the camera shut off I figured I didn't have
enough footage to throw a video together. Well, yesterday
I decided to do something with it so here ya go.

it took me a good long time to find a song best
representing the day so I hope the effort is
appreciated ;-)

Oh yeah, although I had a good 20 minutes of tape, only
about 2.5 made it into the final production...........

www.mountainbikebill.com/videos/MFP/jem.mpg

Michael

Now that's my kind of trail. I'm heading to sin city in
November (COMDEX). Looks like a place I'll try.

Michael Paul said:

www.mountainbikebill.com/videos/MFP/jem.mpg

Michael

Looks fun, seems like it would be a [censored] out there in
heavy winds.

--
Craig Brossman, Durango Colorado (remove ".nospam" to reply)

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Quoted message said:

I didn't plan on putting a video together for this trail
from our (Miles, Sorni, non AMB regular, myself) trip to
Vegas and Utah last month since my camera turned off for
more than half of this trail.

Oh yeah, although I had a good 20 minutes of tape, only
about 2.5 made it into the final production...........

www.mountainbikebill.com/videos/MFP/jem.mpg

Michael

Hey, fun video. Looks almost exactly like a race course
SW of us about an hour on the Snake River called
Barking Spider.

paladin

Michael Paul <[email hidden]> wrote:

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it took me a good long time to find a song best
representing the day so I hope the effort is
appreciated ;-)

Great video, but I had to mute the sound -- what was that
early Partridge Family?

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Oh yeah, although I had a good 20 minutes of tape, only
about 2.5 made it into the final production...........

Dan -- you catch that?

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www.mountainbikebill.com/videos/MFP/jem.mpg

Thanks for the effort.

Tom

tcmedara said:

Michael Paul <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

it took me a good long time to find a song best
representing the day so I hope the effort is
appreciated ;-)

Great video, but I had to mute the sound -- what was that
early Partridge Family?

My guess is Brady Bunch (gack!). Nice trail.

Shawn

Hey, it was hard work finding a 2 and a half minute song!

yes, the song selection was a bit tongue in cheek.

Michael

Shawn Curry said:

tcmedara said:

Michael Paul <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

it took me a good long time to find a song best
representing the day so I hope the effort is
appreciated ;-)

Great video, but I had to mute the sound -- what was
that early Partridge Family?

My guess is Brady Bunch (gack!).

Ha! You knew it was the Brady Bunch right away! You
aren't guessing!

That's hilarious. The funniest part is, I knew it too.
Didn't take long to pick up sister Jan's solo parts.

Gawd, they tortured us with that [censored] when we were little
farts back in the early 70's. Staring at the little screen
on Friday nights with a mouthful of frozen pizza and Fanta
Red Cream Soda. Now after 30+ years I can remember the
lyrics to that stupid fscking song like I wrote them myself.

Gack! is right.

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Nice trail.

It IS! I rode it twice last week. It hooks up with the
Gould's Rim Trail to make a nice big loop. We rode it the
first day we were in the area, then spent three days doing
Gooseberry and Little Creek stunt-riding.

We went back again and started the loop from the bottom,
climbed over to the radio/cell tower area TH for Gould
(closer to Hurricane), then rode the loop counter-clockwise,
finishing up with the J.E.M. Nice singletrack, and a mellow
place to cool down from the relatively intense riding up on
Gooseberry.

Here's a couple JPEGs of the area right near the end, first
one has the Virgin River exposure mentioned earlier. Second
one featuring my ex-brother-in-law, Jim K.

arkansasvalley.netJEM virgin.jpgOpen ↗
arkansasvalley.netJEM wash.jpgOpen ↗

A *few* Gooseberry pics are here:

arkansasvalley.netGooseberry.htmlOpen ↗

The Hurricane, UT area kicks butt. Never bothered to go down
that far before. But it's really nice.
--
Tom Purvis - arkansasvalley.nettpurvisOpen ↗
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."-Bertrand Russell

Tom Purvis said:

Shawn Curry <[email hidden]> wrote:

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My guess is Brady Bunch (gack!).

Ha! You knew it was the Brady Bunch right away! You aren't
guessing!

No not guessing, unfortunately. To be honest though, my
first thought was The Partridge Family. Like that's better?
:-)

Snip reminder of brain cells truly wasted on trivial
knowledge of the Beaver and Gilligan. Instead of something
useful like the lyrics to "Jumpin' Jack Flash"

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arkansasvalley.netJEM virginOpen ↗
.jpg arkansasvalley.netJEM wOpen ↗
ash.jpg

A *few* Gooseberry pics are here:

arkansasvalley.netGooseberry.htmlOpen ↗

Very nice.

Shawn

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Michael Paul <[email hidden]> wrote:

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Quoted message said:

it took me a good long time to find a song best
representing the day so I hope the effort is
appreciated ;-)

Great video, but I had to mute the sound -- what was that
early Partridge Family?

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Oh yeah, although I had a good 20 minutes of tape, only
about 2.5 made it into the final production...........

Dan -- you catch that?

I caught it. I'll blame it on the enthusiasm of it being
my first helmet cam video :-) I like the views he was able
to get with this video---I'm not to hot on the music
though... Dan V