I have a good case in point on this one. There is a trail that is built in a park called Borderland that was built by the local IMBA chapter. When I read this, I thought of some of the ones I had been on out west that were built by mtn bike groups. I got there and I was dumbfounded. I rode the first few hundred feet thinking "yeah this is great" then it stopped and turned into flatrock and just..no trail. I thought...great...You lost the trail..again (just like someone else said...you might not even be ON the trail) so I started hiking because I was by myself and well, I was trying to figure out where the trail went. So I went and went and went. I found the 'main trail' and rode around according to the map and then got back to car. I went to my LBS later that week and told them how I got lost. Then the proceed to tell me that I WAS on the trail...and I said..."what trail?!"

So like I said before, it's always an adventure. I had to laugh the other day talking to a guy out west on the phone about the trails here. What is the hardest thing for me so far? "Not hitting trees"..."what?" "not hitting trees!"...out west the trees are further from the trail (in most cases) and out here, there are some that I have been on where it's close to no room for your handlebars. See, that is what I mean. Right there that would make it harder...