Few thing's I noticed/thought today as I rode.

1. The first few times I rode down it, my mind made me think the rollers were jumps. They are not. That being said the speed at which I prefer to ride down that makes them more like jumps but I found I can scrub enough to manual down the backside. 

2. I enjoy that section of trail but wish it could be tweaked just a bit.

3 Why on earth are people getting so wadded up on it. To me it does not seem to be that overly hard compared to some other stuff.

4. What type of injury are they pulling out of there. I know myself if I broke a wrist/ankle/collar bone and nothing was sticking out places it shouldn't, I would just get myself back to the truck and go to the urgent care (and yes I have down this before). So it seems that maybe the injuries are people knocking them self silly? Which brings me back to point 3, what the heck are you doing so wrong you wadded yourself up that bad.  (This does not suggest someone keep track of wrecks, merely my thought as I saw the ambulance cruising in on my way out this morning)

Any who I hope they keep it and everyone gets more used to riding that style and then not as many people end up rubber side up.

my .07cents

The tower 93 loop has been changed. Did about 7 laps on it tonight. It's less technical, but faster.

The "odd rollers" have been smoothed out. Couple of the kickers have had the angles changed. The path itself is a little different. Looks like they removed one of the turns.

The tower 93 loop doesn't show up on the THTB map. I think it was added after the map was created. The trail map on the USNWC website appears to be more up to date:

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Ryan, it goes out to Belmeade Rd. and ends in a small loop.  Awesome trail, tons of flow in both directions.  I glad they opened it back up.
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The Long Creek section of the Carolina Thread Trail is definitely a singletrack MTB Trail.  There are plenty of sections of the Thread Trail in other areas which are Greenways, but the section connecting to USNWC is not.  It is my understanding that the trail will eventually be extended to connect to other portions of the Thread Trail elsewhere, but the project is just beginning to come into realization.  At the moment, the Long Creek portion of this trail is an out-and-back style 2-way trail between the upper portion of the USNWC Figure 8 Loop and Belmeade Rd.

Glad to hear that section of Thread Trail is back open. May start putting Catawba back into the rotation.