Thank you for taking the time to read about our plight. Our spot is called Hidden Valley and is located in Huntington Beach, CA. You may have seen it in hundreds of BMX and MTB photos over the past 12 years. Hidden Valley consists of 2 downhill dirt jump lines in a wildlife type area or what can be considered one in the middle of a sprawling beach town. Our problems seem to stem from the homeless people who live in the bush and the local kids who come here to drink and party in the area surrounding our trails, and the fact that the authorities do very little to keep the homeless from setting up camp. We do our best to police the area as much as possible without getting into altercations with the bums and punks. And since we leave at sundown, when all the trouble starts, we're not around to defend our reputation... so we get lumped in with the trash.
We are always afraid to call the police even though I'm a former police officer because we don't want to draw unwanted attention. The last time a cop came down, one of the young officers said, we need to