Start Point: Popperton Park, 4860 feet High Point: Bobseld start, 5800 feet Trail Distance: 5.9 miles (round trip) Trail Time: 1 hour Skill Level: Intermediate/Advanced Best Season: Spring/Fall The Bobsled is easily Salt Lake City’s most popular, notorious and swooping-fun downhill ride. It’s a wild descent from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail filled with a semi-technical...
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Start Point: Bonneville Shoreline Trail – Emigration trailhead, 4900 feet End Point: Dry Creek Canyon, 5050 feet Trail Distance: 7.8 miles (round trip) Trail Time: 1 hour Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate Best Season: Spring/Fall The Bonneville Shoreline Trail is among the most popular mountain biking routes in the Salt Lake Valley. Quick access from the city, lofty views, and...
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Start Point: Wild Rose Park – 5,200 feet High Point: 5,550 feet Trail Distance: 2 miles Trail Time: 30 minutes Skill Level: Beginner/Intermediate Best Season: Spring/Fall The Wild Rose trail system in North Salt Lake is a short loop that’s good for a quick morning singletrack jaunt, but lacks size for a destination area. A relatively easy section...
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In case you haven’t heard, mountain biking goddess Rebecca Rusch absolutely crushed the female time record on the Kokopelli Trail on April 27th. She rode the famous, 142-mile trail from Fruita, Colorado to Moab, Utah in just 13 hours, 32 minutes. It was a massive and impressive achievement but the event, sponsored by Red...
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Spring in Southern Utah is the best time of year for outdoor adventure. Sure, winter is better for skiing, fall is arguably best for mountain biking and climbing, but spring is the only time you can do it all at once. We had one such trip of variety when we went backcountry skiing, mountain...
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Mountain bike enduro is seriously gaining traction here in Utah. Last year saw a huge success with the Bell Wasatch Enduro at the Canyons, and the action will be heading to Moab this summer for the new Enduro Cup at Magnificent 7. So, what is European-style enduro racing anyway? Basically it’s a mountain biking...
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The Wild Rose trail system in North Salt Lake is a short loop that’s good for a quick morning singletrack jaunt, but lacks size for a destination area. A relatively easy section of singletrack and a fun-but-brief downhill area with berms and jumps keeps things interesting in an abbreviated 2-mile loop. The trail begins...
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The Whole Enchilada. The name describes the ride well as it encompasses a whole smothered tortilla filled with Moab-area trails like Burro Pass, Hazard County, Kokopelli and Porcupine Rim. It’s also the Whole Enchilada in terms of the style of riding as the trail system begins in the high alpine of the La Sal...
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Many endurance mountain bikers have ridden in a 24-hour race, but how many of you have ever been on your bike for 25? Well, Hurricane, Utah is home to one, and it’s being called the, “longest 1-day race, ever.” It’s 25 Hours in Frog Hollow, and it promises to get your saddle sore and...
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Mountain bike videos, like ski movies, are usually just a jumbled collection of radical-dude shots edited together with flash frames and sick slo-mo that make Red Bull chuggers get the vapors. But it is possible to make a mountain bike video that actually tells a story (you know, a narrative that has a beginning,...
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