3,114 ft
Distance
-634 ft
Descent
00:08:03
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Lower Hare Ball Details

  • Activities
    • Mountain Bike
  • Riding Area
    Snowshoe Bike Park
    Snowshoe Village, West Virginia
  • Difficulty Rating
    Double Black Diamond rate
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    DH, AM
  • Direction
    Downhill Only
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  • Physical Rating
    Extreme
  • Season
    May-Oct
  • eBike Allowed
    No
  • TTFs on Trail
    Berm, Bridge, Drop, Jump, Rock Garden
  • Global Ranking
    #35753 in Mountain Biking
  • Local Popularity
    20 in Mountain Biking
  • Land Owner
    Snowshoe Mountain Resort

The gnarliest trail at Snowshoe Lower Hairball is super rocky and steep with tight turns and often loose rocks. This trail contains some sketchy optional lines and rock drops that come up quick and require commitment. It's a serious rock garden the entire way down the first half. Where it begins to flatten out prior to the fire road crossing, there is a big rock you can drop off of (ride around to right, drop is about 3.5 feet) called Roberto's Rock. After this huck to flat you cross a fire road and drop into the final, trickiest rock garden on the track before dropping onto the ski slope. After a flat pedal, you drop back down in the trees into the "supercross" section containing large whoops which can be doubled or tripled. This trail was part of the world cup course.

Access Info

After Upper Hare Ball or Lower Pro DH, stay right at the intersection.

Disclaimer

Extremely difficult, expert riders only

Bike Park

Local Trail Association
Traditionally Indigenous Territory
More Stats for Lower Hare Ball mountain bike trail trail
  • Altitude change
    -634 ft
  • Altitude min
    3,400 ft
  • Altitude max
    4,033 ft
  • Altitude start
    4,033 ft
  • Altitude end
    3,399 ft
  • Grade
    -20.3%
  • Grade max
    -62.4%
  • Grade min
    -4.5%
  • Distance down
    3,114 ft
  • Avg time
    00:08:03
  • Avg reverse time
    01:49:47
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on Oct 25, 2023
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      Lower Hare Ball Trail Reports

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      Oct 25, 2023 @ 12:04pm
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      Jun 27, 2023 @ 6:26pm
      Jun 27, 2023
      Oct 2, 2021 @ 9:52am
      Oct 2, 2021
      		 Post World Cup closure of HareBall
      Oct 11, 2020 @ 7:27am
      Oct 11, 2020
      Dec 17, 2019 @ 6:00pm
      Dec 17, 2019
      		 Closed for the season, see you in 2020! :)
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      Routes with this trail

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      2015 Snowshoe Wild Hare Pro GRT race2 miles
      2019 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Finals Downhill Course race1 mile

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