Mountain Bike

2,799 ft

Distance

5 ft

Climb

-553 ft

Descent

00:05:43

Avg time

Trail Supporters, Builders & Maintainers of Grizzly Escape Trail

USFS
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Grizzly Escape Details

Activities
- Hike
- Mountain Bike
- Trail Running
Riding Area

Alta
, Utah
Difficulty Rating

Black Diamond rate
Voted Difficulty

Black Diamond (1 vote)
Hiking SAC Scale

T1 Hiking
Trail Type

Singletrack
Bike Type

AM
Trail Usage

Multi-use
Direction

Downhill Primary
Popular direction shown
Climb Difficulty

Double Black Diamond
TTFs on Trail

Rock Garden
Global Ranking

#8952 in Mountain Biking
Local Popularity
55 in Mountain Biking [+]
- 80 in Trail Running
- 65 in Hiking

Technical narrow singletrack, dropping from the Michigan City Road to the Albion Basin Summer Road. Primarily a hiking trail, but infrequently used. This is not climbable on a bike going up, but is a very loose and technical descent going down.

Many bikers descend this from BCC, and then climb up Alta via Catherine's or Supreme, then drop back over to Solitude (Honeycomb) or Brighton (Catherine Pass).

Access Info

Climb Michigan City Road to the top of the steep/loose/babyhead section. Trail starts on the granite creek to your right.

Traditionally Indigenous Territory

More Stats for Grizzly Escape hike trail trail

Altitude change

-548 ft
Altitude min

9,067 ft
Altitude max

9,615 ft
Altitude start

9,615 ft
Altitude end

9,067 ft
Grade

-19.587%
Grade max

-36.247%
Grade min

9.683%
Distance climb

25 ft
Distance down

2,774 ft
Avg time

00:05:43
Avg reverse time

00:18:42
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Status:

on Jan 26, 2021

Very Dry

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Trail Difficulties

Access Road/Trail
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Black
Double Black Diamond

Trail Report Status

Clear / Green
Minor Issue / Yellow
Significant Issue / Amber
Closed

Land Owner Overlay
Wilderness (typically no bikes in USA)
BLM (public)
USFS (Wildlife sanctuaries darker than usfs)
State land
Indigenous
Military

Trail Conditions

Unknown
Snow Groomed
Snow Packed
Snow Covered
Freeze/thaw Cycle
Icy
Prevalent Mud
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Dry
Very Dry

6 Months

1 rides
5 miles avg distance

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Trail Lists

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Routes with this trail

title	rating	distance
Brighton-Alta-Sunset-Solitude		12 miles

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status	date	description
	Jan 26, 2021 @ 7:18am Jan 26, 2021	Persistent weak layer below 12-18 inches of soft snow. Its a good day for low angle travel
	Aug 25, 2020 @ 8:21pm Aug 25, 2020	reporter Never seen it so dry!
	Jul 15, 2020 @ 12:15pm Jul 15, 2020
	Apr 17, 2020 @ 6:30am Apr 17, 2020	Fresh snow from the most recent storm, dry in the morning, cooked by lunchtime
	Jan 10, 2020 @ 9:46am Jan 10, 2020	Amazing. 15-20 inches

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