Flightline Progress Blog

The city of Carlsbad is destroying the environment to save it?

I didn’t realize that it was okay for the city to contract someone to come in and completely cover the trail by chopping live plants and throwing it on the trail. If I get back out there I will take pictures but this is […]

I was out hiking Flightline today and noticed that not only have all the bridges been removed on the descents, but now the small bridge and small wood plank crossings in the “swampy area” are gone.
Also they have sand bagged the center trail to the top of the hill. I don’t know if the sand […]

An email was just sent to the North County Hash House Harriers which are probably the people that Hash (run and chalk the trails) out at Calaveras.  I told them about the Ride Flightline site and urged the person that gets the mail of the site to contact me back so I can get them […]

We are all waiting to go through the propper channels to help save FlightLine and allow the tax payers of Carlsbad to use this wonderful resource in our back yard, yet the destruction of these great single track trails continues. I got this email yesterday.“FYI, Bob and I went through there today and they’ve […]

Met the Battalion Chief at the fire station today. He had some free time and I got to spell out the past history and were we have come to this date. In a nutshell 100% with us. He said they used the trails for running and that there are mtn bikers on […]

I know there are running clubs that run through the Calaveras area and probably flightline. The trails are chalked all the time to mark the routes that the running clubs use (real environmentally cool eh?).  If anyone is going to any cycling store, pick up the Competitor Magazine. It is free and contains lists of all […]