IMBA to Design New Trails in Mammoth

Good news for Mammoth!
This is from the IMBA website:

"Trails Solutions Selected to Design Trails at Mammoth Resort"
IMBA's Trail Solutions has been selected as the consultant for natural-surface trails at Mammoth resort. Professionals on the Trail Solutions team will work closely with ALTA Planning and Design, who is providing planning services for paved pathways and road systems. According to IMBA's Cimarron Chacon, Mammoth has plans to become a "premier year-round resort community." The planning includes a multi-jurisdictional partnership with the town of Mammoth Lakes and the US Forest Service. Additional partners include Mammoth Mountain resort and the MLTPA, a local non-profit."

IMBA Trail Solutions Services

MLTPA Action Plan They want to "establish a vision for a comprehensive system of trails and public
access for Mammoth Lakes and the surrounding region."

Survey Here's a Trail-Use survey for the Town of Mammoth Lakes. You can tell them that you like to mountain bike and want more singletrack opened up!


The photos above are from the Mammoth Mountain Bike Park website here.

Mountain Bike Guide Books at less than 1/2 price!

Extremeline Productions is now selling "damaged" books for less than half of the cover price. These books might have blemishes, dents, dings, folds, marks, and/or be tweaked in some way. Nothing major! Just some surface damage - which happens the second you toss the book into your dirty camelbak anyway.

These slightly damaged copies of Mountain Biking Santa Cruz are $6.95; and Mountain Biking Mammoth are $7.65. Happy Trails!

Mammoth Opens 2 New Freeride Trails!

2 of the long awaited freeride trails are now open at Mammoth Mountain Bike Park! Techno Rock and Richter add to the 90 miles of singletrack on the mountain. Here's what the MammothMountain.com has to say:

"Our long anticipated two new trails now open! Techno Rock has a setup similar to popular dual slalom and mountain cross courses, and it starts out with four intense drops that range from four to 15 feet. The trail then plunges in and out of a dirt ditch that is Mammoth's Olympic Size halfpipe in the winter. Richter is for intermediate riders and it rides like a rollercoaster through a tunnel of trees. Wooden features and natural berms round out the trail's assortment of obstacles."

Also, the mountain will be running Chair 2/Stump Alley Express on weekends through labor day.

Mountain Biking Yosemite

While mountain biking inside of Yosemite National Parks is not allowed, there are some great options just outside the park boundary. Trails on the Eastern Sierra side, near the Tuolumne Meadows entrance, offer the best scenery and singletrack. Two great biking options are Bennettville Trail and Saddlebag Lake Trail.


Bennettville Trail follows a section of the historic Great Sierra Wagon Road and scenically weaves past the infamous mine, the Great Sierra Tunnel, on its way to the ghost town of Bennettville.

Nearby, the Saddlebag Lake Trail is a mountain bike blessing. Absolutely amazing high sierra scenery surrounds this loop, which is nestled between Hoover Wilderness and Yosemite.

Another ride in the area, Lake Canyon Trail, requires a bit more aerobic exertion. Details and maps of the ride are depicted in Mountain Biking Mammoth. Enjoy!

Santa Cruz and Mammoth in New Bike DVD

Top Soil 2 is a new mountain bike dvd with footage from Santa Cruz, Mammoth, and other great locations in the West.

This is what people are saying:

Top Soil 2 is the sequel to the Aptos Productions’ Top Soil online video diary, which has been viewed by nearly one million visitors. Top Soil 2 is a recipe of local talent, progression and humour. Watch the young riders of Aptos, California Cameron Mccaul, Evan Turpen, Jamie Goldman, Greg Watts, and many more as they ride their best for the cameras pushing themselves and the sport to a higher level. Top Soil 2 is shot in various parts of North America and places across the globe following the world’s top riders as they compete in contests and races.

Top Soil 2 will only be available on DVD and includes the full length original Top Soil in the bonus features as well as crash section, Red Bull Reezride 03 and more…

Scenes shot in Aptos, Crankworx, Mammoth US Open, Cowan's back yard and many more.

Sick riding from the likes of the McCaul Brothers, Jamie Goldman, the Watts brothers, Ryan Howard and SO MANY MORE!

Sick riding from the likes of the McCaul Brothers, Jamie Goldman, the Watts brothers, Ryan Howard and SO MANY MORE!

Here's a preview:

New Trails at Mammoth Mountain

So, Techno Rock, Richter, and the Twilight Zone are finally approved and set to open this July! The Mammoth Mountain Website says this about the new trails:

"Opening July 2007 - Techno Rock: a fast, technical expert-only trail from McCoy Station to the Main Lodge. With BIG rock drops and banked turns in the Super Pipe Techno Rock is a dirt-jumping run to the bottom.

Opening July 2007 - Richter: a fast, upper-intermediate to advanced, tree-lined roller coaster ride off Kamikaze and Trail Home. Ladders, wooden bridges and plenty of berms. This trail completes the freeride path from the top of the mountain to the bottom.

Opening July 2007 - Twilight Zone: this urban-inspired trail will become our "signature." Hang a quick right halfway down Chain Smoke and get ready to accelerate through a series of linked wooden berms, through the Snake, and end in the heart-pounding "deep-end": a 32-foot wide, 10-foot tall, 180 degree banked turn.

Kamikaze Park is a place to have fun and test your skills on man-made features. Located near the lower Panorama Gondola Station. Find urban-inspired features including dirt jumps, wall ride, teeter totter, features from the Unbound ski and snowboard Terrain Parks and larger features - look for the 90-foot Dragon and the Volcano!"

For more detailed info on the trails in Mammoth, click here!

Mammoth Season for Singletrack

A lousy snowpack year in the Sierras only means one thing: a longer summer! Mammoth Mountain is melting fast, and it wont be long before some of the freeride trails on the mountain are clear. The temperature is supposed to be in the 60's this week, creating great tacky trail conditions. The early season snowmelt, adds the much-needed moisture to the pumice soil.

Many of the great cross country trails are starting to get stomped down; Downtown, Uptown, Mammoth Rock Trail, Paper Route, Lakes Trail, and Juniper Trails. Of course, Lower Rock Creek Trail has been going off for awhile.

Check out the Mammoth Mountain website for webcams and weather updates. The Bike Park won't actually be open until June 23rd, but most of the trails should be clear much earlier.