So While we were at the Teva games, we wanted to do a little mountain biking up Vail mountain. We hit up a couple bike stores to ask them what we could ride, unfortunately no one seem that interested or excited about any of the rides open on the mountain. The best suggestion we got was….” well you could ride the fire road up to Eagles nest and back down.”
The reason being, is because most of the good rides on the back side of the mountain weren’t open, due to the snow. Also I guess some of the area is closed because the animals, like moose and elk, are coming down from the winter to eat and they are not to be bothered. Which all makes sense, but slightly disappointed, because I wanted to ride some sweet single track.
A long climb up the single track is what I settled for and I guess it was nice to get a solid climb in. The bike store had a simple bike map to follow up the mountain, there really were only a couple paths you could ride up. It was nothing like Park City’s map which you could stare at for the half the day, plotting your route.
We took Gitalong trail up, which was a gradual climb and got a bit steeper towards the end of the trail when you got closer to eagles nest. We climbed on Saturday and it was gorgeous out, sunny blue skies, nice weather. As we got closer to Eagles nest though it got super windy and you could see why the backside would still be closed, there was a ton of snow left up there near the ridge and in the trees.
We took Liondown, back to the the village, it was a pretty easy fire road most of the way. At the very end, it turned into a little bit of single track, that was actually super muddy because the Xcoutry mt bike race just ended. It was fun though, to at least get a little single track.
It was a pretty long ride and some great climbing and views.
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