Ya, don't say RideMonkey around here. Admins don't wanna hear RideMonkey. You'll not read me saying RideMonkey

Ed, you're in that unenviable catch-22 position on trails like that. With ad hoc bulding like that there will always be those who want to keep the 'secret' trails secret. Part of it is a survival instinct: the more that know about a trail the more risk of scrutiny from the land manager/owner and the chance the trail(s)/features could get scuttled. But if it's on public land accessible to all, it's not really 'secret' anyway or anyone's private domain; and I agree with you: the more the merrier to wear it in and mature the lines.

Point 2 is another fine line: when does clean-up and trimming become undue "sanitizing?" There are always two schools of thought in those situations. There are builders and riders who welcome connectors and flow and then there are those who want the disjointed or sketchy-tech and want a trail built that way to remain that way. And when is taming something truly dangerous sanitizing and when is it limiting liability exposure? I was looking at a new jump trail at Beacon the other day that had an old, downed log laying through the gap jump - - that still had sharp branch-stubs sticking up out of it like punji sticks - - and thought to myself "First person who comes up short/cases that is liable to impale themselves. Yeah it looks cool and intimmidating but, doggone, I'd have trimmed off those snags." But I'm not part of the club that built it and it's not really my call. I just probably won't ever hit that double with it looking like that.

Point 3: In an ideal world, there'd be signage and trail markers and cautions posted for super-technical features to alert especially the noobs that they better check something out before they hit it. But, hey, not everywhere is Whistler with budgets for that kind of thing. And regardless you can't protect the stupid from themselves anyway. Just drives home the point that nobody should roll into a next section or trail blind. Get off and walk ahead and scope it out first if you have to. Know what you're getting into.