The Mid-Mountain trail, for years we have been wanting to tackle it but with the Ridge trail in American Fork Canyon so close, we just have never made time.
This year, in preparing for the Wasatch Bell Enduro Race in July, we sampled some of it and had to go back for more.
We began with a non-technical, four mile,1600ish vertical feet climb up Armstrong to reach mid mountain. Remarkably the trail was not crowded, nor very dusty either. The views from Iron mountain on the top are worth every pedal stroke.
From Iron Mountain the trail follows the contours of the mountain towards The Canyons resort. It provides a good sampling of technical rock riding, smooth flowing sections, tree cover, tight turns all with minimal climbing.
Reaching the Canyons Resort we came upon the "skills course". We messed around enough to take two quick pictures and move on. The gravity course combined with this looks like a sweet addition to the resort.
From the skills course we continued up and around on Mid-mountain passing the normally used Holly's trail as the downhill route, in search of something more technical, tight, dusty, loose and sweet...Insurgent.
Insurgent is NOT a trail where speed records will be made. It IS a trail where skills and bikes can be tested. It is full of off camber, root strewn, log hopping, dusty turns that cause more off the seat butt hanging then knee out high speed berms.
It Rocks. We will be going back for more.
After leaving Insurgent behind we cruised down Holly's with her fast turns and "Speed Bumps" which provide a little more tech in an otherwise techless-but-still-fun-trail.
After the Dirt we hopped on the bike path and pedaled the 4 miles back to Park City Mountain Resort.
This is a sweet ride and great place to continue exploring...One Trail at a time.
Deer Valley is next!!
A.M.M.I.H (Armstrong-Mid Mountain - Insurgent-Hollys)
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