From Bob Austin 

 

RIDERS WANTED....An Incredible new Trail called DIRTY JANE needs to be broken in.  Over the past month or more, a friend and myself, have developed a great new trail in brand new territory at the Lake.  We both ride Mountain bikes and Trials bikes and the trail is meant to be used by everyone.  

 

How to find the entrance...

 

You can find the entrance from from Two Sheiks or by going in from Upper Monkeys. 

If you go in from Upper Monkeys, you pretty quickly come across a steep rock and dirt shute....you know...the one that has the ten foot steep descent on the rocks leading into a dirt shute and exiting with a descent over a large rock to the bottom.  From there you turn right and head along the trail to the bluffs....in the open.  About 100 meters or a bit more from the dirt shute, you will come across a large steel plate from some old logging equipment at the beginning of a downhill.  On the left is three or so pieces of orange flagging.  On a tree, you will see a sign with the name "Dirty Jane"...the name of the trail.   Carry your bike up a small hill and you are on the way.  The trail is heavily flagged...you cannot get lost. 

 

The trail covers a lot of territory and goes from one open bluff area to another...There are some fairly steep downhill parts and a bit of cross country in the woods.  You have to ride through quite a bit of salal but the Trials bikes have been beating it down.   There are only a few bits where you have to push your bike for a few feet. 

 

The trail exits just above the plunge on Lower Monkeys.  It is a long trail (much longer than the route it bypasses) and has great potential for other trail builders as it goes through about a dozen rocky open areas.  It is quite technical.  Essentially it opens up a very large area all to the left of Two Sheiks and Upper Monkeys as you go down .  Virgin territory.  So, we have a new trail that needs (begs) to be ridden and is open to more ramps etc. As well. 

 

Enjoy...Bob Austin and Hugh Christie.

 

Editor note - I'll try and get up this week to gps and get some pictures of the trail.