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Correct on the difficult thing. These have both difficulty AND risk. In some cases they are related and some cases not. There is a trail at Ballinger called the "Ridge trail". Not particularly difficult at all. BUT if you go off the trail in some spots, it is 1500' down on one side and 500+' on the other. The trail is narrow but relatively flat with studder bumps. This is more of your Risk you talk about. The other issue is that LPNF is only open from May to end of November, so most of the time you ride it, it is hot and dry. Throw into the mix, elevation and difficulty, and hydration compounds all of this. That is the one thing that gets people who ride up here, getting dehydrated and getting heat stress and stroke as some who did a DBA ride found out. I say go for it, film it for all of us to see. You are welcome to come visit anytime. One other thing, videos rarely do difficulty much justice. My $.02.
Correct on the difficult thing. These have both difficulty AND risk. In some cases they are related and some cases not. There is a trail at Ballinger called the "Ridge trail". Not particularly difficult at all. BUT if you go off the trail in some spots, it is 1500' down on one side and 500+' on the other. The trail is narrow but relatively flat with studder bumps. This is more of your Risk you talk about.
The other issue is that LPNF is only open from May to end of November, so most of the time you ride it, it is hot and dry. Throw into the mix, elevation and difficulty, and hydration compounds all of this. That is the one thing that gets people who ride up here, getting dehydrated and getting heat stress and stroke as some who did a DBA ride found out.
I say go for it, film it for all of us to see. You are welcome to come visit anytime. One other thing, videos rarely do difficulty much justice. My $.02.
