Is Galbraith Home to the Best FreeRide MTB Trails? | Galbraith Mountain - Bellingham, Washington
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2020
- With an opportunity to hit bike in the Pacific Northwest upon us, we weren't going to miss a chance to ride Galbraith Mountain in Bellingham Washington.
Just a few ours outside of Seattle, this place is home to some of the best freeride trails I've ever ridden. Trails like Unemployment Line, SST, Atomic Dog, Pump Track and Evolution should be on your radar freeride bike trails are your thing. - Спорт
Really enjoyed this!
Awesome! Thanks! Have you ridden here? Or plan to?
good vid, thanks mate....I'm there in 6 weeks time ,coming all the way from Australia to sample some PNW. Need some local knowledge, been doing heaps of youtube to try to get some of the trails in my head. I'm super stoked to see how many breweries are in Bells for those post ride B E E R S !!!
Dude. You're gonna have a blast! I'm hoping to get back this way before I head to Whistler for the summer. Any opportunity to ride Galbraith is a good one!
Right ON!💪🏽
Thanks bud! But to answer your unedited question, no, I haven't! But I'd like to get back there to see if I've gained skills since my last visit!
Dude I love your videos. I'm very much a beginner at MTB having only done it a couple years, and you're definitely better than I am. But, I appreciate that you leave in your apprehension on trails. I had a friend show me around Galby last summer. I very specifically remember the feature on U Line that you show at 0:50. Video just doesn't do it justice. I know it's honestly not that hard in the scheme of MTBing, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Your videos are great because they convey that yeah, these things actually ARE intimidating even if video makes them look super tame.
Thanks bud! I just gotta stay humble. It's not like I'm fooling anyone into thinking I'm gonna shred my bike harder than the next UA-camr. (Or even AS hard!)
But I'm not having any less fun! Especially on features like that thing!
Ive been riding Galbraith at least once a week for the last 2.5 months and still have a handful of features on U-line that I've yet to attempt. It does improve your skills quickly, but also isnt a mountain you'll be bored on for years imo
You're living the life bro! And yeah, U-line is huge! A few large gaps for sure! Keep Sending.
I am a Bellingham local and I just saw this video. I noticed that at around 11:08 on the video, it is me, riding by you! I paused it and sure enough, it was me. How random?? Anyway, I hope you enjoyed Galbraith, and I subscribed to your channel.
Haha. You made that section of video what it is! So funny! Thanks for the sub! You have amazing trails in your backyard!
I'm going to be living 5 min from there. Can't wait to hit those trails!
Dude! That's the dream!
Just moved to Bellingham about a year ago. Now I know why guys were yelling out the window " Grandmothers on bikes" at me. Just trying to get up the courage to try the little hills by the beer garden!
This is some high quality content!!
Thanks bud!
You said it perfectly about the flow there.
I wanna spend more time here so I can learn the trails better and learn to flow on all trails better
@@DustyTrailsMTB yeah I have only been there a couple of times but it’s blast!
Great confidence booster, love the attention to detail !
Did you rip it!?
@@DustyTrailsMTB Yes sir, was a blast 🤘🏼
Great video and editing, enjoyed it. By chance did you stay at a local MTB friendly hotel? Visiting from east coast in few weeks, in search of one.
Hey bud! Glad you enjoyed! We were car camping with the Subaru. We were staying in a campground that I think only had availability because its normal programming was canceled for the season. I can't even recall the name of it. Sorry!
Nice I was just up there today!
Sick! Does Galbraith stay rideable late into the season? I'm having to pilgrimage from CO to Moab, UT at the moment!
Dusty Trails MTB it’s rideable right now! Today was great! A few puddles, but no biggie. But it’s supposed to rain for at least a week. So it may be a mud pit soon.
Now I want to go. It's about an hour and a half away, but my conditioning holds me back.
Do it!
Fun to see your perspective on these trails. Most of them I haven’t been on, yet. (I ride up the pipeline trail from my house a block away to get to Galbraith.) I’m glad you have the same experience of meeting difficult jumps on easier runs. After really riding a lot for a year I was feeling happy to hit the intermediate Cedar Hills Jump trail, but failed miserably. I’m older and it’s not worth breaking my back! I’ve hit the lower part of SST quite a bit, and I have to avoid some of those jumps, too. But that is one of my favorite trails. Also worthwhile if you like the single track in the woods is Bob’s Trail. Park at Whatcom Falls and ride up Birch Street for good access from the north. That lot does fill up, though, so you might need to find street parking.
I'm going to keep all this in mind for my next trip out there! I can't freaking wait. You've got some rad trails in your backyard.
That medium cedar jump trail was tough. I can see the benefit of sessioning that thing a bunch!
Great video, I just moved to Bellingham :)
Dude! So dope. You have got to be stoked!
@@DustyTrailsMTB Very much so! I'm still new to the sport and building fitness, but definitely feels like paradise :)
Hey! What camera do you use? Also is that a chesty or chin mount? I like your footage and am trying to figure out what camera setup to get. Thanks!
Hey bud! At this time, I was using a hero 7 on a karma grip (on a chesty).
I've since moved to a hero 11 on a HoHem iSteady 4 gimbal that I Jerry rigged to a stuntman chest harness.
It's all a bit complicated, but I don't notice it on the trail.
A chin mount gets similar results, but I don't wanna wear a full face all the time.
Another downside to my setup is I can't really record vertical at the same time for instagram. Lots of these new 360 cameras have piqued my interest, but I'm already in deep with these gopro accessories! Ha!
Sick Vid. Nice content
Siiick! Im glad you dig!
Your vids get better and better and I think your getting a great rider too
Thanks man! I had a lot of fun putting effort into this one! Definitely a fun series to put out!
Ahh I miss my home trails!! Great video!
You're so lucky that these are your home trails! Where are you at now?
@@DustyTrailsMTB Colorado!
@@graceyh4147 thats awesome! Got any trail recommendations that I may not have hit in CO yet?
@@DustyTrailsMTB I've heard that Eagle Valley trail is amazing!
Really nice
Thanks homie!
@9:54...the trees....on a positive, you were neither the first nor will you be the last to hit said trees. Think of it as...membership to a club...
I want a pin that says I'm a member of that club!
@@DustyTrailsMTB Would an embedded splinter count?
I see tiger Mountain, good choice. If you did not hit raging River trail system (just down 90 from tiger) or darrington, WA (north mountain) this trip make another one next summer and hit it. Those two systems are worth the drive alone. Keep up the video's they are looking good.
Tiger was soooo sick! That video should drop in a few weeks!
We did hit Raging River. No service might have been the best trail we hit on this trip! Unfortunately no video of that trail...
I'll just have to come back.
@@DustyTrailsMTB the beginning of no service (w/ the people's elbow) is so much fun especially when paired with invictus. Not sure when you rode raging River but at the beginning of August they added a spicy blue tech trail (canyon creek DH) and a black (pt, with optional double black section).
We rode No Service to canyon Creek DH! Such a rad combo!
That double over the angled log at 3:30 is a doozy for sure! Not bad once you send it a few times. I did crash it once at night, but it was pretty wet and slick and I put a little too much whip on it for the conditions.
Maybe you can tow me in someday!
if people have not been to that rock, they do not know how fuc*** steep it is and how sketch things get just a few feet off trail
It's a big drop for sure. Can't wait to come back and get another shot at it!
That looks so scary, especially when watching on a TV and no tiny phone screen 😂 I got the Furtado now, just have to learn how to MTB 🤣
A frutado! Dude! Such a rad bike! You're going to have so much fun. Your backyard trails are great, but make sure Elmar shows you around the state. Washington has soooo much to offer!
We'll have to all ride together when we come back!
@@DustyTrailsMTB ok then, now I have to practice, you both are just toooo good. But still can't wait to do so :)
Just take it easy! Biking only has to be as exciting as you make it. And learn to trust the bike! That thing is engineering perfection.
Good video but you left out a lot of good parts. As you stated in your video, riding here all the time really does push you to ride better. Mover here from CO myself in 2017 and so far I haven't hit any trails that compare to Bham. Just when you think the trails can't get any better they add more trails and or features.
What did I leave out!? It's hard to cram it all in in one video, but it's also hard to cram it all into one trip! We definitely need to come back. We are in Squamish for part of the summer. Maybe we should take a weekend trip back down there!
@DustyTrailsMTB lol, there is a lot, and another trip isn't a horrible idea at all. You guys should've signed up for the Enduro this weekend at the NW Tuneup Festival.
@josephmexican6429 ha! I'm way to slow to race an Enduro. That would only serve to embarrass the hell outa myself! Still, I may co.e down for a non- race weekend. Got any new trail recommendations?
@DustyTrailsMTB just race for the fun of it, man lol. No need to be competitive. And the festival is great! A lot of the trails have received facelifts since your trip here. I've heard of a few new trails but have yet to see them. Did you two hit chuckanut yet? Spacewolf? Das autobahn is a nice sort of short one that spits you out at Irish death and prison love. Supposedly, that's where a new flow line is coming in. The SST/Goldenspike and lower SST alternative are fun as well. Bob's is a nice easy going blue for everyone. El Pollo elastico, 911, tough love, mullet, cheech and Chong and Meth Lab are all great trails. All blues but all varying in difficulty but easily rideable with any capable rider.
I used to live up there and every time I go back it get bigger and bigger and I keep getting older and older!
Just wanna say I think you are smart for not hitting that gap with the log in it!! Looks like you need some serious boost to clear that
it's actually one of the easier jumps on pump track - most people overshoot it so much that they end up in the ferns!
I've been riding sst since I was in middle school and I still run into those trees once every few months
🤣🤣
Hi Dusty, I live a couple hours away and I am investigating visiting Bellingham. What type of mountain bike is good for this? I bought I dirt jumper this year and I have been riding it at bike parks but now I am interested in trail riding like you are doing in this video.
Any modern trail or enduro bike is gonna be awesome these days. Just find a good fit and then send it!
if you think the blue trails are hard in washington, then wait until you see our blacks! we have a black trail called Thrillium, it has 40 foot tables...
Dude. I bet!
I got to ride NOTG and No Service over on Tiger Mountain and Raging River. They were both black trails and were soooo sick. But I imagine it only gets nuttier!
Love your content 👍
Im getting a Remedy this or next year, the first 8 i can get my hands on, lead times stretching to may-21 at some dealers here in sweden 😂
I bet you get this question all the time but whould you recomend down or upsizing on this one?
At 5.10 (178cm) i fall right in between the ML and the L, talked to two different dealers one Said ML while the other one Said L so i didnt get much wiser 😂 Maybe some other Remedy riders here at 5.10?
Thanks
ooof. this is a really tough call. Dunno if you watched the review video I did for the Remedy, but I ran into the same issue between a large and xl. I like the idea of a bike with longer reach, so I thought, being between sizes like yourself, I might like the bigger bike. Unfortunately it just doesn't work like that. The Remedy isn't a long bike, and so, to get that longer reach, I had deal with the other measurements that just didn't fit me. I ended up with a Large. But it's all personal preference unfortunately.
I had to demo the xl to find that out, and I'd suggest doing the same. The problem is it took me a few rides to come to my conclusion.
Good luck on your hunt. You're going to love the Remedy!
Dusty Trails MTB yeah i watched it and i feel exactly what you are saying, in todays standards the reach Numbers of the Remedy look really short and its hard to ignore that :)
Even though its longer than my current hardtail.
Unfortunatly i cant demo one single Bike here :/ thanks for your reply
Unless you'll be pedaling xc / all mountain trails a bunch on it, get the smaller frame size.
spoiler alert: yes
Shhh! Let em watch the video! 😜
Just to comment, I live in Bellingham, ride here, and love it.
I stopped before 3 minutes when you used 'sissy' to disparage yourself for not hitting jumps.There are better ways to rant at yourself than equating lack of skill or confidence, to being feminine. Not interested in supporting this content even if some of your other comments are spot on.
Dude! I actually totally agree. I used "sissy" as an attempt to stay gender neutral because I didn't realize that word had any connection with being female.
I actually make it a point in my videos not to attach lack of skill to a gender, specifically because I don't want anyone, especially young kids to go about thinking that girls can't/don't send it as hard as guys.
Actually, one of my favorite things about living in Colorado is just how many girls here send it harder than the guys. We always have diverse groups of riding friends, which I appreciate so much more than just another day out with the "bros".
So thank you for pointing this out. I thought I was making a point to stay gender neutral because I didn't know. Is there a word that's more playful than "coward" that you like? I'd love to hear your thoughts and keep the dialog going! 🙌
@@DustyTrailsMTB Sissy is an abbreviated form of sister, and by 1874 had the pejorative meaning of a weak or effeminate man... so also somewhat homophobic...
I guess one could say, 'I get frustrated (pissed, angry, etc.) when I don't feel confident enough to go for what I know on some level I am capable of doing/have done before/used to be able to do/want to do.' This keeps the comment wholly within the individual where the frustration lies, without comparison to something that almost invariably is derogatory towards some out-group. As soon as we use a phrase 'I hate it when I act like a...' there is going to be a put-down of someone or group considered less.
If my frustration is with me, then I have the opportunity to explore myself, and keep the focus on what I see as being my limits/hesitations/lack of skill/courage.
I'm a big believer in addressing my own areas of perceived deficit through skilled coaching and dedicated practice... as well as recognizing when I feel ok to live into a situation in which I don't want to get hurt and affect my ability to ride tomorrow.
Be well. Seek out good coaching and dedicated practice if you want to acquire skill/confidence in a specific area. Time on a bike alone does not build specific skills.
Yeah, I see that. I had no intention of comparing myself to feminine personalities especially as a means of insult. I thought I was calling myself a coward, which is internal, and doesn't put down any group of people. But I see my error. Thanks for helping me see that I should avoid that word in the future.