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The Wilson Mesa trail. Near Telluride. Reportedly a scenic and milder single track with little elevation change from end to end. One way is about 12 miles. I started from the Telluride (east) end.
It can be ridden to the end (an intersection onto a nice gravel road - west end) which can be messed with for most of the long ride back to Telluride - OR, you can turn around there and ride it backwards. Anybody want to guess which way I went?
The road going up the valley to Ophir is where we start. A right turn not far down that road takes us up high.
It gradually decays into a jeep trail that eventually leads to the WM trail
head.
First impression is not so favorable but then the WM trail splits off from the path and gets interesting pretty quick.
This is not a really technical trail - by Colorado standards. It would make a fine trail for just getting into single track. There are indeed some up-hill gnarly rock climbs, gnarly roots and gnarly rocks and roots climbs and descents. There are several tight right-hand downhill switchbacks that'll have you tippytoe a bit. There are stream crossings but very easy and brief. I don't want to make it sound like a cruise down to Starbucks. This is not a KLR trail.
On the way back my legs got a little tired. I cleaned this thing going down and then promptly dumped it going back up on the return trip.
It can be ridden to the end (an intersection onto a nice gravel road - west end) which can be messed with for most of the long ride back to Telluride - OR, you can turn around there and ride it backwards. Anybody want to guess which way I went?
The road going up the valley to Ophir is where we start. A right turn not far down that road takes us up high.
It gradually decays into a jeep trail that eventually leads to the WM trail
head.
First impression is not so favorable but then the WM trail splits off from the path and gets interesting pretty quick.
This is not a really technical trail - by Colorado standards. It would make a fine trail for just getting into single track. There are indeed some up-hill gnarly rock climbs, gnarly roots and gnarly rocks and roots climbs and descents. There are several tight right-hand downhill switchbacks that'll have you tippytoe a bit. There are stream crossings but very easy and brief. I don't want to make it sound like a cruise down to Starbucks. This is not a KLR trail.
On the way back my legs got a little tired. I cleaned this thing going down and then promptly dumped it going back up on the return trip.
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