Quarantine Wiss - Wissahickon Valley Mountain Biking - Philadelphia, PA
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- čas přidán 15. 04. 2020
- A beautiful spring morning in the Wiss with a little bonus jump sesh. Keeping it socially distant and keeping it early to avoid the hikers. This is like my fourth or fifth Wiss video and it has about half new stuff and half old hits. Trails are so good right now...I hope everyone is healthy and getting a chance to get out in the woods and get their heads straight.
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For those just finding out about the Wiss...
The Wissahickon Valley Park, or the Wiss as us locals call it, is home to the best mountain biking in Philadelphia and likely one of the best urban trail systems in the US. Located just a few miles from downtown Philadelphia, The Wiss has nearly 30 miles of single and double track that comprise a loop which follows the walls of valleys created by the Wissahickon and Creshiem Creeks. There is terrain for all skill levels ranging from recently built flow to more old school rocky tech with everything in between. It's super easy to navigate, as you can always drop down to Forbidden Drive, a wide gravel path that follows the creek from one end to the other, which allows for a bail out to get back to the car.
Cool riding a trail this, for the brave adventurer. Man, they seem seconds from falling headfirst over the handlebars. Great riding! Respect!
Awesome work on that techy climb
Yeah buddy! What's up Sam? It was fun watching that trying to figure out which parts you were riding on. The Cresheim drop in was nice. Love that log drop followed by that stone brick gully with the kicker rock to the left. Hit that and gap right over it.
Yo Marc! We still gotta get a ride in!
Good shit, I am local too...the creishem trailhead gets me into the system. You're really ripping some of those lines, good stuff. Been so crowded lately, I need to get our earlier in the morning.
It's behind the Shawmont School next to the basketball courts. Entrence trail is small but it opens up. Visitors are asked to take one piece of trash out with each visit.
Great riding bro!! You guys are sooo fast! Keep it up!
Thanks Amoh... After things get back to normal, you and bengie should come it with us 🤘🤘
Nice riding! keep it up :)
What trails were you riding?
try Freedom Bike Park behind the Shawmont School. They are starting to build some jumps and there is a bowel area that is not finished. Trail builders are needed, It's on water Dept property and they don't seem to mind.
I'll have to check that out. Is that near the reservoir?
Sick vid! Where is the spot around 1:50 and 2:25? Haven't seen it before and looks pretty fun!
Thanks. That's at the south end of the park by the golf course www.strava.com/segments/1184050
Awesome videos! what are you riding? I took your advice on one of your other comments and reached out to Philly Bikesmith
Nice, they'll get you sorted! The bike I'm riding in this video is my 2019 Giant Trance Advanced 2. It's pretty much stock except an i9 rear hub and I bumped the fork out to 160mm from 150. In some of my videos I'm riding a bike with green handlebars and that's a transition trans-am steel hard tail with a 160 Pike fork. I recommend both bikes highly. If you're in the market, I've heard really good things about the trance 29er and think it'd be great for local trails.
@@PhillyMTB Awesome, thanks!
Ok where is that log jump at the end?
Yo Sam I checked out your CZcams channel from your Strava name and turns out I watched this video of you at Wiss before we rode at Spring with Wolff. Great vids. Where's the jump at the end? I've never seen it
It's a secret spot, but I'll take you over there. It's right up your alley... The whole line is like 12 jumps that get progressively bigger
@@PhillyMTB No way! Yeah let's def check that out soon.
@@sasquatchhimself for sure...I got Wolff out there. He hit the first three
@@PhillyMTB Awesome, I'll talk to Wolff and we'll set something up!
That jump at the end, is that also in Wissahickon?
No that's at a local jump trail
Ima local se should ride sometime im going to green lane tomorrow and nox next week
Unfortunately I'm recovering from a slam at Blue Mountain a few weeks ago that herniated a couple of discs in my neck, but I'll be back at it soon and we can get out on the trails!
@@PhillyMTB I wanna go to blue mountain are the trails any good there?
@@rockerjakerful Blue is good, but TBH I would drive the extra hour (from Philly) and hit mountain creek. It's head and shoulders ahead of blue in terms of trail quality and variety.
Haven’t done these trails yet. Where is a good place to start? Easy to get lost?
Wiss is very easy to navigate. The creek runs though a valley with a gravel path that follows it. The mtb trails are all on the upper walls of the valley on both sides which loop around the entire park with constant connections back down to the gravel. Where to start depends on where you're coming from. Valley green parking lots are right in the middle of the park and a great home base, but since I'm coming from center City Philly, I park over by blue bell park as it's closer for me.
Philly MTB Cool thanks! I work near the Art Museum. Any sweet jumps or man made stuff?
@@slappadabass3290 not really at the wiss. There's a little mtb specific skills section over near the Rittenhouse town trail head (closest to the art museum) which has a drop and some jumps with berms but that's about it.
which parking lot do you use to hit this part of the trail?
These trails are almost all the south end so you can park by Rittenhouse Town, Bluebell Park, kitchens or vgi and will have easy access to all this stuff.
@@PhillyMTB thanks, I'll check it out. great video footage!
Is this anywhere near the SRT at all? I wonder if I rode by all this shit and didn’t know it
Yes the entrance to this trail system is right across from the bus depot on ridge ave (near where you pass the movie theater in the small road portion of the art between East falls and manayunk
Philly MTB no shit! I live in Berks country but occasionally throw my hard tail on the SRT when I want to spin. I remember riding past that area when I rode from Lock 60 in Phoenixville to center city. I’ll have to keep this place in mind looks awesome. Been riding Mount Penn a lot lately cause it’s only 15 minutes away and falls within the essential travel bull shit.
@@PhillyMTB I've ridden to the top of forbidden drive so many times and never knew there were MTB trails. Just stared at the ducks, lol.
@@manfredadams3252 there's close to 30 miles of trails there in addition to forbidden drive. Definitely worth checking out
@@PhillyMTB I'll need a new bike. If I take my fancy carbon Sirrus on those trails it'll be in pieces. I'm more the take the bike on the train to AC, get high and ride to cape may sort of biker.
What trail.
Which part?
what's your favorite Wiss section?
Is that jump at the end also in Wiss?
@@MS-wu8zj nah that's a private line outside the city. Wish the Wiss had some of those
@@PhillyMTB Thanks for the reply. Just waiting for my MTB and will be hitting this trail. 15 years out of practise.
Nice...it's a great time to get back into it as it's one of the few things we can do nowadays. Bikes have changed a bunch since 15 years ago... prepare to get your mind blown 🤯🤯
I really like the East Falls side. Less crowded, lots of challenging tech, but still some rowdy descents and flow. Plus the skill line is now there to dial in some things.
Any bears here ?
Generally no but there has been a black bear sighting or two over the years
@@PhillyMTB should I bring bear spray ?
@@martybee6648 definitely not
where is that jump at the end
That's a private line outside of the city. Unfortunately the wiss is light on built jumps like that.