Yesterday Beth and I rode Aspen for the first time this summer. This trail was in great condition, a little dusty on the exposed sections but solid in the shade. For one of the valley’s more beginner type trails this is still a challenging ride. No matter which end you start at there is a […]
Sunday Beth and I drove over the pass to Jackson. On the way we say a whole lot of cars at the Phillip’s/Jimmy’s trailhead which we’ve come to expect on the weekends. At 10am, finding a parking space already looked like a challenge. It seems that the pass trails get more popular every summer. We
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Yesterday I took a ride down Phillip’s Canyon for the first time in a couple seasons. I took sort of a roundabout way getting there as the only other trail I hadn’t mapped on the pass was Snotel. Starting on Arrow, I turned onto and pedaled up Phillip’s Ridge, then took Snotel back down to
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Yesterday we sent Troy Olson out in a downpour with the GPS to record the course for this years 4th annual Pierre’s Hole 50/100 mile mountain bike race. This race is part of the National Ultra Endurance MTB Race Series. Troy took first place in 2009’s men’s 50 mile open class and also took a
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Earlier this week I took a lap around the Snow King and Cache Creek area and was able to map most of the front side trails I was missing. Starting with the Cache Creek Sidewalk, I crossed Cache and rode Hagen back to the beginning. From there I climbed the Hagen Highway and then Hagen
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Yesterday Beth and I took a ride on the Arrow trail. From the trailhead near Hwy 22 we headed north and continued to the junction of Phillip’s Canyon. From there we turned around and rode it back to the start, afterwards crossing the highway and taking Jimmy’s Mom, Candyland, and Parallel to the bottom of
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I mentioned this race a few posts back but wanted to get more details and a map of the course posted on here. I also realized that the last time we rode this we missed a couple of sections. This will be the first year of the race, being sponsored by Grand Targhee, TVTAP, a
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I knocked out another two of the trails at Grand Targhee, leaving only two more to go for this area, both of which are still under construction. I took a couple of laps from the top of the Dreamcatcher lift coming down Sidewinder and then Sticks & Stones. Both of these are completely clear of
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I finally got around to riding Black Canyon for the first time this season. I think that’s the dustiest I’ve ever seen it which is pretty crazy considering how early in the season it is and that the Pass Ridge trail didn’t even melt off that long ago. I’m used to the top section through
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Earlier this week Jake and I spent the afternoon riding the trails at Grand Targhee. The trail crew up there has been extremely busy this season. First we took a couple laps on their new beginner trail called Greenhorn. Only being a few weeks old, it obviously still needs work but is well on it’s
Last night after work Will and I rode a few of the XC trails at Grand Targhee Resort. None of the 3 are very long in themselves, which would be great for a beginner or someone short on time, but combining the 3 makes for a decent ride. We actually rode all 3 and then
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Last night I got out for an after work ride with Habitat’s weekly “Man Show on Dirt” on the Phillip’s Ridge trail. There were only 6 of us willing to make the drive from Driggs to Teton Pass and tolerate the road construction along the way but it was definitely worth the trip. The ride
Today I rode the South Fork of Horseshoe Canyon. This was only the second time I had ridden this trail. The first time was probably 6 years ago and it was the first trail I ever rode in Teton Valley. Back then it was a completely different trail used mostly by horses and motor bikes.
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Too much work and not enough riding this last week. I did manage to get an after work ride on Mill Creek with the wife one day this week, otherwise not much else to share. Yesterday I tried to make up for that a little. I took G-Funk, the world’s slowest coonhound, up Hagen/Hagen to
Today Beth and I rode Phillip’s Ridge for the first time this season, which is easily my favorite trail in the area. There were still a few patches of snow between the first section of Arrow and the uphill on the ridge trail, all of which were pretty easy to get over and should be
After a week of rain and over a foot of snow at higher elevations, I was finally able to get some riding in over the last couple of days. On Thursday Jake and I rode the North Fork of Mill Creek to the lower half of Mill Creek proper after work. This section of trail
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Today I pedaled up the Old Pass Road from the bottom which is a 1900′ climb crammed into 3.5 miles. I probably should have recorded that track with the GPS since it connects most of the trails on the pass. There’s always next time. From there we rode down Fuzzy Bunny which only had one
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I decided to take an easy Sunday ride and check out one of the areas newest trails. Parking on Old Jackson Highway I started up Rush Hour, although it wasn’t long before I had reached the end. This trail parallels highway 33 near the bottom of the pass on the Idaho side which is pretty
This afternoon Beth and I took G-Money over to Teton Pass to ride there for the first time this season. While a handful of people were still skiing a fully covered Edelweiss and Telemark bowls, we pedaled up the Old Pass Road. Not long after turning onto the Phillip’s Connector we started running into patches
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Over the last couple days Beth and I did a couple laps on the lower Horseshoe Canyon trails. First day we rode Bovine/Shark’s Belly/Probation/Burgh/Bumper/Cody’s/Sodbuster/Southbound/Channel Lock which add up to 12.5 miles, today we rode it all again except for Southbound which made for 9 miles. There are still two small patches of snow on Probation
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While everyone else is driving south for 10-12 hours to ride this off season, G-Money, Beth, and I go north. With the low snow and early spring temps we had this year, most of the trails in the Missoula area are wide open and riding great. Also, it’s only 6 hours away plus I’ll take
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Today Beth, her brother Jeff, his friend Dave, our own G-Money, and myself all met up in Pocatello to ride the City Creek trail network. First of all, everything was in great shape. I heard it hit 70+ degree temps there over a month ago. If we go much longer without rain, things will be
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Bovine was completely clear and in great shape. Shark’s Belly still had a couple 6′ long patches of snow, there was one tree down, and the old bridge is starting to feel a little rickety, otherwise it’s in pretty decent shape. Kind of interesting to see how the landslide that covered part of the trail
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Today Beth, our good friend Kevin, and myself rode a section of the Hagen Highway trail which was completely clear. We were considering checking out Sink Or Swim but weren’t sure how much of that was going to be open. Afterwards we rode Hagen from the Cache Creek trail head to the end. Actually we