A couple of summers ago, we made some great headway on the "Wheels Up" downhill bike trail. COVID slowed us down last year, but we are back at it this summer. The IMBA trail building team has been here a couple weeks and, supported by our Trail Crew, is making great progress. Starting at Black Mountain Lodge, they have built Upper "Wheels Up" across the top of Sundance, High Noon, Ramrod and The Gulch. Today they are crossing Exhibition Trail and will get to the top of Lower Standard within a few days. From there they will work their way back east to join the already built portion of "Wheel Ups" that starts about halfway down High Noon.
This will give us a really fun 4ish mile loop on the Lower Mountain going up the Argentine North Fork Trail and down Wheels Up. The next step for late August and September is to build the downhill trail from the top of Radical to Black Mountain Lodge, making a 5-6 mile loop.
The end game is to build an incredibly fun top to bottom loop that includes a big tour out in The Beavers. At this time, we don't intend to do lift served biking, but do intend to build one of the funnest 12 mile loops anywhere.
