2.8 miles
Distance
1,056 ft
Climb
-81 ft
Descent
00:49:09
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  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • E-Bike
  • Riding Area
    Diamond Head
    Squamish, British Columbia
  • Difficulty Rating
    Blue rate
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Direction
    Uphill Only
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  • Climb Difficulty
    Blue
  • Physical Rating
    Hard
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • eBike Allowed
    Yes up to Class 1
  • Global Ranking
    #1360 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • #1126 in E-Biking
  • Local Popularity
    80 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 85 in E-Biking
  • Year Opened
    2017

This portion of Squamish's Diamond Head climb was built through an extremely successful crowd funding campaign with more than 550 sponsors and contributors. SORCA teamed up with Gravity Logic to get this huge recreation infrastructure project complete. Starting where the existing climb leaves off, it heads up through a BCTS cutblock before traversing NW to about 700m of elevation. After this point, the climb is designed to keep you on your toes; the trailbed narrows and switchbacks get tighter (take them wide early for best results) and it passes through some big trees before crossing the 'Meadow of the Grizzly' descent around 825m. After the crossing, the climb continues and the forest thins before a viewpoint on a rocky bluff, it then joins an old roadbed around 900m.

Local Trail Association
Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Climb Trail - Stl'lhalem Sintl' (upper) mountain bike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    975 ft
  • Altitude min
    1,976 ft
  • Altitude max
    2,951 ft
  • Altitude start
    1,976 ft
  • Altitude end
    2,949 ft
  • Grade
    6.7%
  • Grade max
    -16.3%
  • Grade min
    54.2%
  • Distance climb
    2 miles
  • Distance down
    1,509 ft
  • Distance flat
    1,060 ft
  • Avg time
    00:49:09
  • Avg reverse time
    01:02:58
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on Aug 3, 2022
Dry
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      Climb Trail - ... Trail Reports

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      Aug 3, 2022 @ 9:01am
      Aug 3, 2022
      		 reporter brush cutting today sorca trail crew
      Jun 28, 2022 @ 5:27pm
      Jun 28, 2022
      		 but few wet spots
      May 23, 2022 @ 5:39am
      May 23, 2022
      		 Some muddy sections and some running water on the upper half.
      May 7, 2022 @ 8:57am
      May 7, 2022
      Apr 29, 2022 @ 7:51pm
      Apr 29, 2022
      		 Small tree down needs hand saw
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 10 rides
      • 19 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 265 rides
      • 17 miles avg distance
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      • 2,342 rides
      • Last: Aug 12, 2022

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      3 Reviews & Comments

      • + 1
      stewspooner KCTS (Aug 8, 2017 at 7:18)
      Ditch and pile machine construction has created a facsimile of of a mining road. Gets you up there reasonably efficiently, but with zero natural engagement or harmony.
      [Reply]
      • + 3
      GravityRob (Jul 21, 2017 at 18:44)
      Hi Jayacheess! Couldn't agree more with your review. The bottom half of the trail was built with a slightly bigger machine and a rock hammer. With all of the rock in the area, the hammer allowed us to build a good size bench and large radius turns and ditches. The upper half of the trail was built entirely by volunteers with a small machine and no rock hammer. The uphill ditches are necessary, but the corners are definitely too tight. We plan to go up in the next month or so and replace the ditches with culverts on the six tightest corners. This will give riders about another foot of turning radius and eliminate the sluffing too.
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      • + 2
      jayacheess (Jul 20, 2017 at 17:07)
      Honest review from a donor to the trail fund for this project: The trail is an absolute masterpiece. I'm blown away by how much vertical you get with such a reasonable climb. The amount of work put in is amazing, and everyone involved in the build should be extremely proud.

      That said, I have a critique. Some of the switchbacks during the last half of the climb are extremely janky. They're tight, and the soil falls to an offcamber in to the drainage ditches too close to the radius of your turn. I was constantly sliding off the trail during the switch backs. Mind you, it was my first ride up, but it still seemed overly touchy to hit those properly.
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