When I first rediscovered Shells again last year, I was amazed at how it had evolved. The gaps between the jumps looked basically undoable. 20-30 foot gaps with very unforgiving consequences.
The idea of actually hitting one of these gaps became almost a silly obsession in my mind. Every visit to the spot with my co-worker Zane, I would look at it thinking ’someday ill have the balls to hit that’.
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For people that live/work in the San Francisco bay area, specifically the peninsula between San Carlos and San Mateo, the options for mountain biking/dirt jumping are really damn good considering the proximity of the various spots within this small area. I am able to access each of these 3 amazingly awesome spots within 5-10 mins of where I sit and for this I am very grateful. There are actually several more than these, but I am focusing on the ones I can literally ride to on a lunch break.
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