Betasso Link Trail

Trail Meter: 
Good

The Betasso Link Trail is a necessary evil for those of you that like to ride to your ride. To get to it either ride up the Boulder Creek Path to where it dead ends at Fourmile Canyon and then jump onto Boulder Canyon Drive (Highway 119) or park at the head of the trail just before the tunnel on Boulder Canyon Drive. It's 1 1/4 miles uphill - far too much uphill in some places as you will notice on the first two pitches of babyheads.  This particularly heinous introduction to the Betasso Link Trail is where the trail follows the old water treatment plant pipeline. Sometimes, when the planets are aligned correctly and you've coked up on too many Red Bulls, you just might be able to clean the first 1/4 mile of this trail.

As you get further up the trail you'll start going up some switchbacks that wind their way up to Betasso Road next to the water treatment plant. Cross the road and continue along to intersection with the Canyon Loop Trail. While this trail technically could be ridden as a shuttle, we highly recommend against doing so for two reasons: 1) this is a heavily used trail close to town and you're going to cause a stir with your battle-ready downhill gear, and 2) the trail isn't that hard and you look a little foolish trying to play downhiller on a trail this uninspiring. Do yourself and us a favor and buy a lift ticket at Keystone, Winter Park, or Sol Vista... and enjoy the climb!

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T: 4 A: 8 C: 4

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1.25 mi.
650 ft.

Comments

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1-26 Dry from boulder canyon to the water treatment plant road. Damp, wet and icy above.

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A dusting of snow in a couple of spots. Otherwise totally dry.

Trail Meter: Poor»Good

A dusting of snow if a couple of spots. Otherwise totally dry.

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Snow!

Lots of nice new construction. We'll see if the bottom work holds up over time on such a steep slope. But the experiment is a good one. Also good work up high going from road to singletack.

Dry as a bone

already summertime dryness level but with a decent line down the last sections to the highway

Perfect, a little tacky in some spots.

Good. A bit washed out, but no mud.

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