Longest downhills in Alabama! | Mountain Biking at Coldwater Mtn
Coldwater Mountain in Anniston, Alabama is known for having some of the best descents around! It definitely delivers on good elevation and high speeds!
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Some of the best riding in the South East | Coldwater Mtn | Part 1. Bomb Dog & Trillium
Hey Guys! Welcome back, we're in Coldwater Mountain in Anniston, AL today, last time I was here I had some gimbal issues, so I'm hoping to get redemption on that today.
I guess I should give you some context as I got questions about the bus in the Chewacla Video. Twice a year some known locals organize these bus trips, we get about 25 people together and travel to riding spots in the SE; its a great way to make traveling a bit easier and enjoy shredding with an awesome bunch of people.
Coldwater Mountain is located in Anniston, AL, roughly about halfway between Birmingham and Atlanta and has some of the best riding in all of the region. The mountain itself is not that prominent, reaching only 1600ft at the summit, about 800ft above the trailhead, but boy is it well built, the descents here feel like you're loosing thousands of feet of elevation and the climbs are not that crazy.
After finishing mama & papa bear, you have to climb Cassidy, a continous grade 1 mile, 600ft climb, after which we continued onto the trail you're seeing now, Talladega. This one leads you as close to Coldwater Peak as you can get with some nice views and fun riding along the way.
After finishing Talladega you'll get to this multi-trail intersection, called the rabit hole. Right after which you can hit Trillium, one of the favorites ones around here. There's some kind of black magic fuckery to this trail, you go down trillium, which goes on forever while going pretty fast, and then to get back to the Rabbit Hole, you go back Chilhowee which barely feels like a climb, I don't know how they did it, but major kudos for terrain usage on this loop. A lot of people like doing this one a couple of times.
As I mentioned, the climb back to Rabbit Hole is pretty melow, the only exception is this rock garden, which turns out to be lots of fun, and much tougher than it looks like on camera. After looping Trillium a few times we continued to follow Chilhowee in order to get to Bomb Dog, Coldwater Mountain's most iconic trail. The traverse over is nice and flowy with some chunky sections. To get to the Bomb Dog, or Gazza, which we'll do in the next video, you have to climb Rock Slot, it starts out quite easy, but get pretty rocky towards the top.
Once you're past the initial rocky section, the character of the trail changes completely. Bomb dogs is the rest of the way down super fast with plentyful rollers and doubles, but, my favorite thing about it, is that it isn't highway smooth, instead when they built this they left enough rocks and imperfections to make the trail feel anything but dumbed down. I personally think this is one of the best purpose built trails in all of the SE, with not so much elevation you get miles of continous fast descending that is smooth enough to inspire confidence but chunky enough at spots to stay fun.
The rock per se wasn't that big, but the landing was a little rutted out and you had to clear a big rock that was a definite rim killer, so we decided against hitting the optional line.
I guess I should clarify, to get to the top of bomb dog, you do actually have to climb, my comment is because after you get done with the trail you have to climb about 300ft back to the rest of the trails to make your way to the trailhead. Its objectively not much, but since its so close to the end of the ride you really feel it.
We got too much footage, so I split the video in to two, see you for the next part next week.
Happy riding!
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Coldwater Mountain | Mountain Bike Riding - Anniston, Alabama
In this video, my friends and I take on some of the best flow trails in the south! Coldwater Mountain in Anniston, Alabama! We definitely were not informed exactly about how these trails were both climbs, miles and downhill sections. Nonetheless though you will find our experience, thoughts and explanations about the trails as we go through them! Enjoy!
**You can find the video time stamps for the different trails we hit below:
10:44 Warmup
13:34 Start of the first flow trail of the day “Baby bear”
15:44 Start of the flow trail “Mama Bear”
19:17 Start of the Uphill Climb “Cassidy”
20:22 Explaining “Cassidy”
27:35 Start of the Uphill/Flow Trail “Talladega”
28:00 Explains “Talladega”
33:48 Downhill of “Talladega”
38:40 Start of the flow trail “Trillium”
42:49 Start of the trail downwards to “Chilhowee”
43:33 Second half of “Chilhowee” towards Rock Slot
46:25 Explains Chilhowee
4805 Starts the trail “Bullfrog”
50:03 Start of “Rock Slot”
53:00 Start of the best flow trail Bomb Dog
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Mountain Biking Coldwater Mountain in Anniston, AL
We've officially included the first SE ride to the channel with Coldwater Mountain in Alabama and it was nothing short of epic.
I had a bunch of gimbal issue and most of the video was unwatchable, this is what I managed to salvage, its still a bit shaky, so I'm sorry about that. Good news is a have a new gimbal on the way to get back to nice stable footage for the next one.
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Coldwater Mountain - Bomb Dog Mountain Bike Trail (Anniston, Alabama)
Had a blast driving here to ride their Bomb Dog trail. Unfortunately I had a flat and couldn't ride the rest of the trail (that's why it stops at the turn on the side of the hill). I'm going back within the next two weeks so stay tuned!
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Coldwater Mountain Mountain Bike Trail in Anniston, Alabama | ทริปขี่จักรยานในอาลาบามา
Vlog 007: On Sunday November 19, 2017, we went to Coldwater Mountain in Anniston, AL to do a day trip mountain biking. We left from Atlanta around noon and got to the trail around 1.20 pm. We finished our ride at 4 pm. Good workout trail, that is for sure!
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Coldwater Mountain Alabama IMBA Ride Center
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The Bomb Dog Loop might just be your favorite new ride. Part of the new developing trail system at Coldwater Mountain, this loop includes some of the newest technology in singletrack trails.
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Local Flavors is Pinkbike's guide to riding destinations around the USA, normally in partnership with the local tourism group - this episode we feature Calhoun County. Hosted by Brice Shirbach, he will take you to these areas and give you the low down of where to eat, how the trails came into being and where you should be riding.
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New Trail Day | Trails @ Ft. McClellan
Today we took our first ride on the trails at Ft. McClellan and it was a great ride. The trails were pretty smooth and flowy with equal amounts of climbing as there were downhill. Great trails to work on endurance and stamina.
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