2,950 ft
Distance
5 ft
Climb
-399 ft
Descent
00:03:01
Avg time
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Smooth Operator Details

  • Riding Area
    Mammoth Mountain Bike Park
    Mammoth Lakes, California
  • Difficulty Rating
    Double Black Diamond rate
  • Trail Type
    Singletrack
  • Bike Type
    DH, AM
  • Trail Usage
    Biking Only
  • Direction
    Downhill Only
    Popular direction shown
  • Climb Difficulty
    Green
  • Physical Rating
    Extreme
  • Season
    Jun-Oct
  • TTFs on Trail
    Berm, Gap Jump, Wallride
  • Ride in Rain
    Yes
  • Global Ranking
    #1438 in Mountain Biking
  • Local Popularity
    95 in Mountain Biking
  • Year Opened
    2016
  • Land Manager
    Mammoth Mountain

New trail added to Mammoth Mountain in 2016

Bike Park

More Stats for Smooth Operator bike trail
  • Altitude change
    -394 ft
  • Altitude min
    8,344 ft
  • Altitude max
    8,739 ft
  • Altitude start
    8,739 ft
  • Altitude end
    8,344 ft
  • Grade
    -13.368%
  • Grade max
    -26.091%
  • Grade min
    2.071%
  • Distance climb
    82 ft
  • Distance down
    2,868 ft
  • Avg time
    00:03:01
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Status:
on Aug 14, 2018
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Avg: 5 (4 votes)

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  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
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  • Double Black Diamond

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  • Wilderness (typically no bikes in USA)
  • BLM (public)
  • USFS (Wildlife sanctuaries darker than usfs)
  • State land
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Trail Conditions
  • Unknown
  • Snow Packed
  • Snow Covered
  • Freeze/thaw Cycle
  • Icy
  • Prevalent Mud
  • Wet
  • Variable
  • Dry
  • Very Dry
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      Smooth Operator Trail Reports

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      Aug 14, 2018 @ 10:58am
      Aug 14, 2018
      Jul 21, 2018 @ 11:16am
      Jul 21, 2018
      Jul 20, 2018 @ 2:15pm
      Jul 20, 2018
      Jul 7, 2018 @ 10:49am
      Jul 7, 2018
      Jul 6, 2018 @ 2:51pm
      Jul 6, 2018
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      Recent Ridelog Activity on Trail

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      6 Months
      • 145 rides
      • 87 miles avg distance
      All
      • 360 rides
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      1 Review & Comments

      • + 1
      flag DataJunkie (Oct 3, 2016 at 20:48)
       Above my level, but super fun. The trick to have a "smooth" ride is speed. The bottoms of the berms are very sandy, so you will want to ride the berm and thus need the speed. The berms are a tad sketchy because there are trees and roots growing into them. Nothing that someone at level couldn't handle. The wallride has a lip at the bottom so you don't have to ride it. If you do ride it, there is a weird but intentional misalignment that seems to require you jump kinda sideways off the wall. Watch the videos to see what I mean.

      I think the gap jump is at the bottom by Canyon Lodge, and it's very easy to ridearound/miss.
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