- Trail:
- Pine Canyon Trail (Climb to Rt 87) (Pine)
- Status:
- Significant Issue / Amber
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Issue status:
- Condition:
- Very Dry - watch those marbles, dusty
- Reporter Primary Activity:
- Mountain Bike
Description:
Update to below - 2019: The Trail has been rerouted from the Pine Trailhead to BearFoot & is really nice now.
Finally got a chance to go back & try the lower portion of #26 this past weekend. WHAT A NIGHTMARE.... We started at the top of the Bearfoot trail & rode it down to Pine Canyon. The new bridge at the bottom of Bearfoot, that the Pine-Strawberry Fuel Reduction Team built is very nice. (Bearfoot is a good Trail, if you haven't tried it"
BAD NEWS: After you cross the Bridge & go down 26 towards Camo LoMia you start a LONG, HARD climb back up the mountain to get back to the Pine Canyon Trail-head. The beginning of this section is rideable, but pretty steep. It's about a 500ft climb in 1 mile,according to Strava & Garmin. After that, the trail becomes un-rideable. I'm not sure why this trail is even on trail forks due the the terrible conditions in the next 3 miles of this trail towards the Pine Trail-head. IN that 3 miles you will climb another 200ft. This should be a hiking trail, not a bike trail. You literally have to carry your bike/hike-a-bike for about the next 3 miles until you get to the Wild Bill Spring, where the trail comes to a "Y" We thought we should have turned right to get back to the Trail-head, turns out we were wrong, brings you down a pretty rough trail, into a neighborhood. So we never got to finish the last couple miles back down to the Pine Trail-head. So, Im still not sure how the Trail condition is from Pine Canyon Trail-head up to the Wild Bill Spring. I will add the Wild Bill Spring trail to TrailForks, so no one else makes a wrong turn.
Finally got a chance to go back & try the lower portion of #26 this past weekend. WHAT A NIGHTMARE.... We started at the top of the Bearfoot trail & rode it down to Pine Canyon. The new bridge at the bottom of Bearfoot, that the Pine-Strawberry Fuel Reduction Team built is very nice. (Bearfoot is a good Trail, if you haven't tried it"
BAD NEWS: After you cross the Bridge & go down 26 towards Camo LoMia you start a LONG, HARD climb back up the mountain to get back to the Pine Canyon Trail-head. The beginning of this section is rideable, but pretty steep. It's about a 500ft climb in 1 mile,according to Strava & Garmin. After that, the trail becomes un-rideable. I'm not sure why this trail is even on trail forks due the the terrible conditions in the next 3 miles of this trail towards the Pine Trail-head. IN that 3 miles you will climb another 200ft. This should be a hiking trail, not a bike trail. You literally have to carry your bike/hike-a-bike for about the next 3 miles until you get to the Wild Bill Spring, where the trail comes to a "Y" We thought we should have turned right to get back to the Trail-head, turns out we were wrong, brings you down a pretty rough trail, into a neighborhood. So we never got to finish the last couple miles back down to the Pine Trail-head. So, Im still not sure how the Trail condition is from Pine Canyon Trail-head up to the Wild Bill Spring. I will add the Wild Bill Spring trail to TrailForks, so no one else makes a wrong turn.
