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These photos were taken SE of Anchorage on the way to Portland. Clear day, point and shoot camera, and a little Aperture.app tweaking.

A hard case from the dollar store, a little plastic pipe that just happened to be the same size as the eyepiece, a spotting scope, and boom, instant telephoto.

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The Standard Examiner recently had an article discussing future Snowbasin development which had one line saying there was some concern over loss of trails in the area. I layered the crude newspaper...

Picture threads are fun. Finally got down to American Fork. Another AF Overlook. Peak identification from heywhatsthat.com.

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The last steam train engine visited Ogden over the Thanksgiving weekend. Somebeech helped me buy a GoPro and I used it to film part of this. Music is Leo Kottke, Last Steam Engine Train.

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Four miles of fast dirt singletrack (90%), no climbing, lots of trees, some berms, some whoop-de-doos, something different to try.
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Nice pictures, thanks for taking time to report.

For the most part the trail is pretty smooth with few rocks. It is the steep switchbacks that are the signature features.

White Rock is at mile 4.5 and the top of the 2200 foot climb is at 5.5....

Used to be an out and back, now it is a loop. Unable to punch the trail from White Rock south to Willard because of private land issues, the White Rock trail now loops north and intersects the Perry...

Just a little too much snow today; should be clear again soon. Took a short ride east from the top of the pass down the pioneer trail, no snow or mud there but short.
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How about 20 miles of forested singletrack and a free chauffeured shuttle?

I suppose to be a proper shuttle, the ride should be downhill and the shuttle up. In this case the shuttle (free Park...

Sombeech organized another fun ride. True to form he shuttled it, and filmed it. Here is a 3 minute movie of the movie maker.


http://vimeo.com/29493058

It must have rained over the weekend. Several isolated mud puddles on the trail, but no problem getting around them and they'll be dry very soon. I had to go see the new stairs and look for moose. ...

The caption next to the photograph on the front page of the Friday, 9/9 Standard Examiner was:

(From left) Josh Mortensen, Mike Caldwell, seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong and Steve...

These ride tracks include the racetrack loop singletrack up there that is likely overgrown. The very primitive doubletrack out to either the top of Geertsen Canyon or an unnamed overlook to the east...

The forum says Mountain Biking AND Cycling:

1. On the first lap about to turn east and climb North Ogden Pass.
2. The big boys were in town with lots of extra bikes.
3. Finishing the first lap....

The snow is gone, the water is flowing, the trees are down, and the bugs are hungry

I lose track of the trail names, especially on Snowbasin. Here is what I think the names were: Up Wheeler, up East Fork, across upper Green Pond Loop, tried Needles to the lodge but got stopped at...

Good news, trail maintenance has started on East Fork Wheeler Creek trail. The Forest Service has moved a small backhoe, and another trail tractor(?) onto the trail and is working their way down,...

Didn't see any closed signs, and only a couple of slightly wet spots. Looks like the Forest Service was working on a slight reroute to get from the Maples campground road over to the bottom of the...

There is water running down the trail, branches across it, and a big snowdrift (the yellow push pin on the map) a mere 2.7 miles up. More snow above that as well. Snowdrifts and a rainstorm, just...

Best (better?) ridden clockwise because of the 1 mile 20% grade down to the top of North Ogden Pass. There is a little pavement necessary near Eden.
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Nicely done.

There were lots of cars in the parking lot at the top of North Ogden Pass (Saturday morning) who drove up there from the west (around 2 road closed signs). My guess is that the...

I haven't paid in the past, but I've heard that people have been asked to pay recently :sad:
5.5 miles, 770 feet of climbing once around the figure 8 loop.
The race was once around the small loop...