Russ Barlow airs out the tabletop that comprises the third part of the infamous Three Pack on Lower Bob's. It's a frosty night in mid-December and he's aboard his personal Norco Six.

MOAB MAY have its slick rock, but Bob's Trail is the home of the slick log. 

In the section just after the Big Drop, there is a kind of graveyard of big trees with broken pieces of logs lying about all over the place. 

Bob's Trail used to incorporate these fallen giants into an ever shifting combination of  stunts including drops, ramps, and stairsteps, but in early 2006 the trail was rerouted to a log catwalk.

Then when you finally come out on the old connector cat track, it's just the end of the upper part of Bob's Trail: the whole lower section remains ahead!

And what a treat. You can go and go and go through a veritable Roman deli of technical tasties. There are ride-arounds for all the really heinous technical moves, but you need to know what you're doing to enjoy this trail.

Among other things, Lower Bob's now boasts some really large jump ramps for the big air afficianados (please remember Dan Graham, though, and be careful and ride safely, for your sake and everyone else's), and a wickedly steep, root strewn drop to the Pipeline Rd. at the very end, which has replaced the wickedly steep switchback (called the Big Heave) that used to be there.

Coming as it does, on the heels of the whole upper and lower Bob's Trail freight train, this focused, swan-slow, tip-toe into the abyss can be a killer -- or the climax to the perfect day.

For strong technical riders, the upper and lower Bob's Trail combo is a preferred route to home to Lakeway Blvd. and Whatcom Falls Park on the north side.

See Galbraith Mt. Map #1 for more info on the Bob's Trail. Click on the thumbnail images to view a larger version...