12.4 miles
Distance
1,060 ft
Climb
-1,016 ft
Descent
1 mile
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Fat bike only to avoid damaging the soft trail. A very cool, slow, methodical, techy, challenging trail that goes through sandy washes, up and down punchy climbs, tight corners, very narrow singletrack. No dabbing or hike a bike, this is a pedal only trail. This would be considered a black diamond loop. Very very narrow trail. A trail to use all your skills from pedal strokes to tracking slow balance moves.

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Barrel of Badgers Fat Route is a 12 mile popular expert route located near Rio Rancho New Mexico. This mountain bike only route can be used one direction and has a hard overall physical rating. This route includes 10 trails. This route climbs 1,060 ft with a max elevation of 5,935 ft then descends -1,016 ft.
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  • Riding area
  • Primary Activity
    Mountain Bike
  • Difficulty rating
    Black Diamond
  • Route Type
    Loop
  • eBike Allowed
  • Bike type
    Fat
  • Direction
    One Direction
  • Physical rating
    Hard
  • Ridelogs
    5
More Stats for Barrel of Badgers Fat Route mountain bike route
  • Avg time
    1 hr 36 min
  • Altitude min
    5,562 ft
  • Altitude start
    5,833 ft
  • Altitude end
    5,876 ft
  • Grade
    0.1%
  • Grade max
    -23.2%
  • Grade min
    27.1%
  • Distance climb
    5 miles
  • Distance down
    4 miles
  • Distance flat
    3 miles
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