2 miles
Distance
544 ft
Climb
-589 ft
Descent
00:45:49
Avg time
Trail Supporters, Builders & Maintainers of Captain Ahab (upper) Trail

Details

  • Riding area
    Amasa Back
    Moab, Utah
  • Difficulty rating
    Black Diamond rate
  • Trail type
    Singletrack
  • Bike type
    AM
  • Trail Usage
    Biking Primary
  • Direction
    Downhill Primary
    Popular direction shown
  • Climb Difficulty
    Black Diamond
  • Physical rating
    Hard
  • eBike Allowed
    No
  • Global Ranking
    #205

low angle but punchy technical climbing leads to a low angle but well featured decent. With skill its possible to carry quite a bit of speed all the way to the bottom. A must ride loop.

Local Trail Association
More Stats for Captain Ahab (upper) mountain bike trail
  • Altitude change
    -45 ft
  • Altitude min
    4,652 ft
  • Altitude max
    4,921 ft
  • Altitude start
    4,697 ft
  • Altitude end
    4,652 ft
  • Grade
    -0.388%
  • Grade max
    -46.137%
  • Grade min
    50.094%
  • Distance climb
    1 miles
  • Distance down
    1 miles
  • Distance flat
    521 ft
  • Avg time
    00:45:49
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Status:
on Mar 29, 2018
Dry
Avg: 4.7 (10 votes)

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Trail Style
  • ?
Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
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Captain Ahab (upper) Trail Reports

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Mar 29, 2018 @ 1:27pm
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Feb 26, 2018 @ 6:19pm
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1 Review & Comments

  • + 0
flag Zachjackson (Mar 24, 2018 at 20:29)
 Good downhill with some big rock drops.
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