2.3 miles

Distance

118 ft

Climb

-1,693 ft

Descent

00:34:04

Avg time

Brown Pow Details

Activities
- Mountain Bike
Riding Area

Lake Whatcom Park
Bellingham, Washington
Difficulty Rating

Black Diamond rate
Voted Difficulty

Black Diamond (4 votes)
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

DH, AM
Direction

Downhill Only
Popular direction shown
Climb Difficulty

Black Diamond
Physical Rating

Hard
Trail Visibility

Always easy to follow
Dogs Allowed

Yes
eBike Allowed

No
TTFs on Trail

Bridge, Gap Jump
Ride in Rain

Yes
Global Ranking

#3950 in Mountain Biking
Local Popularity

75 in Mountain Biking
Year Opened

2019

[L=https://www.trailforks.com/trails/brown-pow/]While fully rideable, Brown Pow is still in the midst of work and has a lot of projects to be completed on the upper section. The lower bridge still needs both approaches to be completed in the next month. Long-term, this trail will start at the top of Stewart Mountain.

Access Info

Climb up the new Chanterelle climbing trail to the viewpoint. Then take the left into the upper Chanterelle trail. Follow that to the turnoff that takes you under the power lines and cross the Wickersham Truck Trail road. Follow the access road and find the entrance to the top of Brown Pow on your left.

Disclaimer

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Whatcom Mountain Bike Coalition
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Traditionally Indigenous Territory

More Stats for Brown Pow mountain bike trail trail

Altitude change

-1,575 ft
Altitude min

603 ft
Altitude max

2,257 ft
Altitude start

2,178 ft
Altitude end

604 ft
Grade

-12.8%
Grade max

-48.4%
Grade min

29.7%
Distance climb

1,417 ft
Distance down

2 miles
Distance flat

581 ft
Avg time

00:34:04
Avg reverse time

01:18:29
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Status:

on Dec 3, 2021

Variable

Avg: 4.6 (28 votes)

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Directions to brown-pow trailhead (48.722910, -122.276730)

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Brown Pow Trail Reports

status	date	description
	Dec 3, 2021 @ 11:05am 1 hours	Running well. 6-7 trees down most of which will require a chainsaw
	Dec 2, 2021 @ 2:47pm 22 hours
	Dec 2, 2021 @ 2:47pm 22 hours	Tree down on lower half just below the cut out
	Nov 13, 2021 @ 8:30am Nov 13, 2021	4 trees down as of Sat the 13th
	Nov 7, 2021 @ 8:22am Nov 7, 2021

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Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

Past Week

7 rides
18 miles avg distance

6 Months

277 rides
9 miles avg distance

All

670 rides

Photos

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Oct 8, 2021 @ 4:38pm

Oct 8, 2021

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Jan 2, 2020 @ 6:14pm

Jan 2, 2020

10 Reviews & Comments

Score Time

Amartincer

(Apr 27, 2020 at 13:07)

Excellent and very fast DH trail. It has a couple of advanced berms/switchbacks. Definitively not for beginners.Intermediate and advance riders will find it exquisite.This is a truly hidden gem. Congrats to trail builders.

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Patchydrizzl (May 20, 2020 at 16:11)

Dont come here....Def not worth it.....

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WearetheFergusons (Jun 24, 2020 at 16:05)

Definitely not for beginners. Lots of eating sh*t ???? Not going back here. It’s not fun.

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chunky-tech-doctor

(Jul 10, 2020 at 8:45)

Trails is flat berms no jumps no rock gardens its just a flat flow trail

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ukducks (Aug 18, 2020 at 8:37)

I enjoyed the top and bottom thirds of the trail but struggled in the mid section. Steep switchbacks, dusty and somewhat sketchy in parts - I spend too much time skidding rather than rolling. More advanced riders would probably enjoy.

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LeviaGZRIL (Oct 27, 2020 at 18:37)

Very technical in parts and flow-y in others. Definitely meant for down hill bikes and confident intermediate to expert riders.

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jgansler

(Nov 21, 2020 at 12:40)

Really fun but pretty pedaly. Worth doing but not full on dh experience

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DanJLangston

(Jan 23, 2021 at 20:11)

Very fun in parts. I am a big fan of the "roughed in" trail style. Good amount of tech flow in the top, or just flow near the bottom. My complaint is that right when the going gets good, the trail will randomly have pedal bits, that don't seem to link well with the rest of the trail. If this trail was consistent downhill I would rate it better. Just my 2p that no one asked for.

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allredbikes

(Mar 23, 2021 at 17:10)

Not much flow, technical in some parts, quite a bit of pedaling. The trail builders definitely had a lot of work, congrats on getting this trail up, I’m sure it’ll get better over time.

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Kona2001

(Mar 31, 2021 at 23:00)

Bottom half is fun.

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