Formerly known as the Wapiti-Baptiste Trail, this trail had it's beginnings as a cross country ski route. In 1993, intrepid mountain bikers cleared the deadfall from the trail and got the Boulder Ranger District to administratively add bikes to the "appropriate uses" in their inventory (you are welcome). From that point on the effort to create a ridable line began. Work by BMA trail volunteers laid in a 4 to 6 inch line in the rockiest section made this trail even more desirable.
Kiss the sky baby. The 505 Road is a serious grunt of a climb. Downshift and make the best of it. If you are looking for a sweet singletrack experience, do yourself a favor and go somewhere else. If you like pain, long epic rides, or getting up close and personal with the high country, come on and give 'er. The 505 Road starts in the Eldora townsite (past the turnoff for the ski resort). Look at a map and know where you are going. It will look like you are going up someone's driveway the first time you do this ride, but you aren't. Just make sure you aren't.
A road?!? Seriously, it's a road, but it's not for the faint of heart.
Coney Flats Road starts at the NW end of Beaver Reservoir. It is a gnarly babyhead laden 4WD road only for extremely modified vehicles. Climbs aren't very steep, just rocky. But it leads you to Coney Flats Lake, offering beautiful views of Buchanan Pass.
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Sourdough South is a rolly polly lungbuster, traveling north-south and paralleling (but nowhere near) the Peak to Peak Highway. Solitude and suffering await you... ok, it's really not that bad if you're mentally prepared for high altitude riding with some loose rocks thrown in there.
You can start this trail from the south at the CU Research Center / Rainbow Lakes trailhead, and from the north at the Brainard Lake trailhead.
The northern half of the Sourdough Trail puts hair on your chest, or umm, makes your legs more shapely and beautiful if you're a chick and a hairy chest is undesirable. Big fat glacial boulders, twisty turny trail, rocks everywhere, and really choice mossy forest -- how could it get any better? If you're jonesing for some technical rock work, Sourdough North has you covered. Combine this trail with the new no-longer-in-wilderness South St Vrain Trail right next to Brainard Lake.
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This trail started out as a cross-country ski trail, and you can see why - after the snow melts away, what's left behind is a festival of rocks and sketchy technical sections.
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