I would go for the second one, but that's just me. I do things like that. You can make your own technical trail to practice on and then access the one you mentioned in no time at all.

We just actually closed on a townhouse 2.5 hours away from us so we can ride the central Oregon trails and not have to drive back home over the pass. So, we essentially spent a ton of money so I could have access to more trails on the dry side of the state.