13.9 miles
Distance
2,900 ft
Climb
-2,898 ft
Descent
2 miles
High Point
This loop route is an instant classic for several reasons The first being its proximity to downtown Crested Butte, allowing for some great refreshments after your ride. The second being the new Baxter Gulch Trail, which creates a perfect and very scenic climb trail to the flanks of Mt Whetstone. Your climb will continue briefly as you traverse right underneath Mt Whetstone on Carbon Creek. Although chunky it eventually becomes a great and rowdy downhill trail. Then finally after a quick break at Green Lake, you get to enjoy one of Crested Butte's best pure downhill trails. Over four miles of steep, rooty, flow on perfect packed dirt!
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Baxter Gulch to Green Lake is a 14 mile popular expert route located near Crested Butte Colorado. This mountain bike only route can be used one direction and has a hard overall physical rating. This route includes 3 trails. This route climbs 2,900 ft with a max elevation of 10,963 ft then descends -2,898 ft.
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Primary ActivityMountain Bike
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Difficulty ratingBlack Diamond
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Route TypeLoop
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Bike typeAM
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DirectionOne Direction
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Physical ratingHard
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Avg time2 hr 20 min
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Altitude min8,889 ft
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Altitude start8,906 ft
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Altitude end8,904 ft
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Grade-0%
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Grade max-51.1%
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Grade min41.2%
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Distance climb6 miles
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Distance down6 miles
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Distance flat1 mile
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Proven Here. SB5 Carbon & The San Juan Mountains
trail: Carbon Creek
5:29 | 35618 | comments: 16 | favs: 365
Jul 17, 2014
In late fall, we traveled to the high elevations of the San Juan mountains to explore the vast range and to test out our prototype suspension...
Recent Trail Reports Along Route
| status | trail | date | condition | description |
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Jul 29, 2024 @ 1:31pm Jul 29, 2024 | GTG | |||
Jul 17, 2024 @ 6:04am Jul 17, 2024 | ||||
Jun 20, 2024 @ 7:48pm Jun 20, 2024 | some greasy spots near the bottom |
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