Generally, international accepted etiquette dictates that the uphill rider has right of way, I presume since it is much easier for a rider going downhill to get started, as someone else mentioned. Meurant's previous crew manager was a guy called Emile. Meurant did the general layout and Emile manned the team that actually built both the Canary trails and the extension to Never Ending Story He said that Canary was specifically intended as an uphill trail as the area is very sandy and would not handle high-speed downhill use. NES was not initially intended as downhill only, but from speaking to him I gathered that the idea eventually was for the two trails to create a loop of sorts. That being said, it isn't sign posted as such. I can understand people wanting to ride it in the opposite direction, perhaps for something different, but honestly, having ridden it in both directions, the layout just suits a clockwise loop better IMO. By this I mean that on Canary the trail is built to be as flat as possible and lots of technical features that would make for some fun riding on a downhill were removed to ease climbing....just look at the amount of rocks next to the trail on Upper Canary. I still dream of a Freeride trail in JHK....something that can't be ridden uphill even if you were silly enough to try. The terrain just begs for it!
