Sombeech
11-26-2011, 08:47 AM
My Brother in Law took me biking down in Arizona at the San Tan Mountain Regional Park near Queen Creek Arizona, just outside of Phoenix.
From the trail head the path is pretty wide in all directions for maybe a mile, but then it will turn into decent singletrack. It's a regional park so there is a network of maybe 5 different trails we made a loop out of. We put in probably 10 miles of riding, and then I took a pretty nasty tumble:
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?61364-Oh-Dang!-Beech-is-in-Hospital-MTB-Crash (http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?61364-Oh-Dang%21-Beech-is-in-Hospital-MTB-Crash)
Here's the video from the ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-u1pgpvWE
So here's the Trip Report before the crash. Since this was my only experience with Arizona mountain biking, I'm not sure how it rates, but I would ride it again. The plan was to head up to the Superstition Mountains area and hit some trails up there too, but that couldn't happen.
Here's our route, in two maps. We took a Burger King break between the two :mrgreen:
This first map calculates 8.4 miles
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201568912690721470257.0004b27bed77fcda9586 a&msa=0
And this second map includes the trip to the hospital :haha:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201568912690721470257.0004b27bef0450996e8a 5&msa=0&ll=33.197328,-111.604958&spn=0.078717,0.154324
From the trail head the path is pretty wide in all directions for maybe a mile, but then it will turn into decent singletrack. It's a regional park so there is a network of maybe 5 different trails we made a loop out of. We put in probably 10 miles of riding, and then I took a pretty nasty tumble:
http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?61364-Oh-Dang!-Beech-is-in-Hospital-MTB-Crash (http://www.bogley.com/forum/showthread.php?61364-Oh-Dang%21-Beech-is-in-Hospital-MTB-Crash)
Here's the video from the ride:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO-u1pgpvWE
So here's the Trip Report before the crash. Since this was my only experience with Arizona mountain biking, I'm not sure how it rates, but I would ride it again. The plan was to head up to the Superstition Mountains area and hit some trails up there too, but that couldn't happen.
Here's our route, in two maps. We took a Burger King break between the two :mrgreen:
This first map calculates 8.4 miles
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201568912690721470257.0004b27bed77fcda9586 a&msa=0
And this second map includes the trip to the hospital :haha:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=201568912690721470257.0004b27bef0450996e8a 5&msa=0&ll=33.197328,-111.604958&spn=0.078717,0.154324