1.7 miles
Distance
444 ft
Climb
-127 ft
Descent
00:32:30
Avg time
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Ground Control Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
    • E-Bike
    • Hike
    • Trail Running
  • Riding Area
    Twin Peaks
    Sydney
  • Difficulty Rating
    Black Diamond rate
  • Voted Difficulty
    Black Diamond (1 vote)
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    AM
  • Direction
    Both Directions
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  • Climb Difficulty
    Black Diamond
  • Physical Rating
    Hard
  • Dogs Allowed
    Yes
  • eBike Allowed
    Yes up to Class 1
  • TTFs on Trail
    Rock Face, Rock Garden
  • Global Ranking
    #5192 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • #2032 in E-Biking
    • #49083 in Hiking
  • Local Popularity
    70 in Mountain Biking [+]
    • 75 in E-Biking
    • 55 in Trail Running
    • 55 in Hiking

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Ground Control is a 3 km popular black diamond singletrack trail located near Sydney. This mountain bike primary trail can be used both directions and has a hard overall physical rating with a 135 m black diamond climb. On average it takes 32 minutes to complete this trail.

This trail is unsanctioned.

Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Ground Control mountain bike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    316 ft
  • Altitude min
    203 ft
  • Altitude max
    522 ft
  • Altitude start
    203 ft
  • Altitude end
    518 ft
  • Grade
    3.6%
  • Grade max
    -26.8%
  • Grade min
    29.9%
  • Distance climb
    5,062 ft
  • Distance down
    2,113 ft
  • Distance flat
    1,572 ft
  • Avg time
    00:32:30
  • Avg reverse time
    00:26:47
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on Apr 23, 2024
Ideal
Avg: 4.8 (5 votes)
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      Ground Control Trail Reports

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      Apr 23, 2024 @ 5:04am
      Apr 23, 2024
      Dec 23, 2023 @ 6:05am
      Dec 23, 2023
      Jun 2, 2023 @ 4:34am
      Jun 2, 2023
      Jan 21, 2023 @ 5:53am
      Jan 21, 2023
      Dec 10, 2022 @ 3:12pm
      Dec 10, 2022
      		 It's rough and rutted
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

      Past Week
      • 5 rides
      • 12 miles avg distance
      6 Months
      • 45 rides
      • 10 miles avg distance
      All
      • 1,712 rides
      • Last: Sep 8, 2024

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      Aug 2, 2023 @ 11:49pm
      Aug 2, 2023
      322 |
      Dec 22, 2017 @ 2:59pm
      Dec 22, 2017
      308 |
      Dec 22, 2017 @ 2:59pm
      Dec 22, 2017
      283 |
      Nov 17, 2017 @ 3:17pm
      Nov 17, 2017

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