On Sunday, May 18th, I rode up past The Village at Mammoth to explore the "Uptown" and "Downtown" mountain bike trails half expecting a short ride due to snow. However, I made it all the way up past the garage before I had to turn around due to time constraints.
I started up Downtown and quickly came across two felled trees - watch out. The Uptown trail still has snow here because it runs close to Minaret and within the range of snowblowers that threw the snow onto the trail. I switched over to "Uptown" about 1 mile in and then back to the "Downtown" trail up near Sunshine curve.
Conditions are good, considering the crew has not yet raked the trails yet (disclaimer: passes will be needed once the ski area opens up the mtn bike park in a few weeks). You will be riding over just a bunch of small branches and pine needles. I had to hike-a-bike two or three times to get over tall snow piles, but rode around or through about a dozen more smaller snow piles.
Up near Canyon Lodge it opens wide up with no snow at all because the forest is less dense (more sunny).
With the ski slopes closing down this Monday, it's good to know the trails are opening up. When one door closes...another opens! Enjoy! -DC
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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