Brokeback Mtn

This is a fun scenic trail both ways, but literally nobody is taking this from cowboy. The first 2.5 ish miles are rocky and punchy and steep. After the switchbacks, is a little bit of flow and then some traversal, then two flow options, then like 3.5 ish miles of traversal, then up and down, then a gravel wash which is miserable, then more traversal to cowboy

This is really like 3 different trails. 1) The West section from Cowboy to the road (the Bronc connector). This has a lot of punchy stuff through the washes and even has a little bit of fun technical stuff on par with anything on the Bronc. Minor exposure for a short section too. Lots of yucca. 2) The semi-circle from the road all the way around to the top of the hill, before dropping down into the canyon. This is pretty darn morning and about as green as it gets. 3) Eastern side of the trail. This is a blast to take from North to South. No real technical stuff, but fast and very flowy with a few short uphills. A tiny bit of exposure, probably a great build up to sketchier stuff. If you take the high road instead of the fire road, there is some tech. If you do it in reverse from South to North it’s a real fitness challenge with some extended steep, loose sections.

Before summer 2023 I used to ride this from the Moenkopi parking lot to The Bronc trailhead(to the top of Bronc which is a hefty climb) and the route was fun to climb and fun to bomb down back to the parking lot.

I went out of town until end of November 2023 and rode it then and seems heavy rain ruined a lot of the lines and created a lot of annoying water channel divits. Definitely disappointing because it was a fun downhill before.