There are some trails around here that have short, steep downhills with the occasional drop. I'm not talking a huge drop, just like 6-8", a couple logs piled up. I have gone down them before, very unsmoothly, but made it. I took a hard fall recently on one and now am petrified to do it. I have always been completely unstable doing it and just hope for the best. I have no problem with roots, small rocks, etc in the downhill, just the piled up logs (not up and over, it's flat up, just a drop over).

Any recommendations on how to handle these? I feel like when I take it slow, it takes every ounce in me not to go over the handle bars. I'm too freaked out though to take it with speed.

What do you do? Slow, roll over and just hold your weight back? Take speed and it all balances out and it's easier? Something with the steep downhill with the drop really freaks me out. Any advice would be much appreciated.

Jenn