Texas Gnar at Spider Mountain Bike Park

Hey guys and welcome back. I know it's been a little time since I put out some content, but I got something fresh for you. My buddy Pat from Flow Life is flying me out to Texas to ride at Spider Mountain. You might have seen his jerseys, seen his shirts, definitely seen me with his hats on. So let's go ahead and get to it. Okay, we're up early. Up at 6am and it's already hot outside. I already want to take a jump in the pool. Oh, there's Patty over there. Let's go find some coffee. Even though Pat doesn't drink coffee, I'm going to find some coffee because we are going to send some park laps today. So I used to live in Texas roughly 10 years ago and I was only in a BMX at the time. And I didn't really think a whole lot of it because we just went to concrete parks, but there's really nothing there to ride. So the idea that they have a lift service downhill park, it's just wild. And I'm super stoked that they have something like that because a lot of people, they'll never ride a lift service park. I think the two things I'm looking forward to going to do at Spider Mountain are going to be, they have a big Texas flag wall ride and they also have another big feature. There's some kind of like bridge thing that you can hop off of, but I'm shooting to send both of them and trying to hit them as big as I can. And we'll see what happens. I hope I don't crash. Pat, here you go. Thank you. So Miss Hudson, big shout to Miss Hudson for some passes there. Thanks for that. And we're going to go get geared up so that we can hit this mountain. And there's our lift. Look at that. Oh, who's that? Who's that guy? I don't know who that guy is, but here's the lift. One of my other sponsors, not plugging them because this is a Flow Life video, but Dirt Gloves, banging them out with the gloves. This guy's got a pair too. Yeah. So a lot of the followers, a lot of my really good friends that are close to me have really been enjoying these gloves and no complaints. And that's the Dirt Jersey. That obviously looks like something I'm rocking right there. So let's go up on the bike and get this going. Oh, look at this guy. I'm going to do that. Oh, there we go. The hype is real. The lift is swiftly moving, in my opinion. We can, yeah. You feel better with that? This lift is, in comparison to other lifts, is like, you're not really that far off the ground. Other places you got like 50 feet below you at some point. You're like, I want the bar down. But one of the things that's super cool is that I'm here. I show up and I didn't announce it on Patreon or anything like that. But one of my patrons is actually right back here on the lift behind us. It caught us in the parking lot for my first run. So big shout out to all my Patreons. I actually just bought some tires for my truck with my Patreon money. That was super clutch because I hadn't been working. I'm just getting back to working. That's probably another reason the slow videos are coming out a little slower now. But thank you to all you guys. Awesome. Appreciate all the help and all the assistance. Yeah, I'm going to let a little gap get there. So one thing about Spider Mountain is the lift ticket for the yearly pass is actually 450 bucks, which seems like a lot of money. But it actually is not considering other park passes. You only ride there for that season, and then you can't ride year-round. At Spider Mountain, you can ride year-round. Default by itself, you're going to go more times. So it's a great value for people that live within two hours. So anywhere within 150 miles of Spider Mountain, it's probably worth having a yearly pass. Oh, man. I think I'll let this open up. Super weird. Oh, ----. No brakes. Oh, we rode this trail last year. Golly. It's so dusty, dude. I'm going to open up my fun switches. I'm going to the double black, bro. Oh, my God. Wow. There's this loose rock. Hardcore. Big rocks. Okay. Okay. That was sketchy. Okay. Okay. Stay wide left. Wide left. Everything's just so loose. It's not like it's that steep. I can't tell what's happening here. You see that? My favorite things about Spider Mountain were probably going to be the fact that they had a double black line that had, they might have been short rock gardens, but they were still both like 50 to 60 feet a piece, and you really could get broke off there. So it is the most extreme thing they have, and that's why I like it, and that's what I go to parks for. Everything's open. They also had a wall ride. Wall rides are always pretty cool, so I can't wait to see if they build more of those because those are always fun. And they had some other wood features that you could hop off of, but I would probably default at being the double black diamond, the two rock gardens. Almost. I think with their climate there, they could build year round and really make some really creative stuff, and I think they should get really aggressive with it, and I support you guys to push these places to get more aggressive with it. If there's a place that has enough people to make something, it's going to be Texas, and Texas can make it bigger than anywhere else, and that's what I'm going to expect next time I come back, is that the Texas community has made something huge at Spider Mountain.