Sweet Snowbasin Singletracks: Wheeler, Maples, Coldwater, Sardine, and Icebox

Over 16.5 miles, breathtaking views, around 2,800 vertical feet of climbing, and some sweet descents for what I would term a borderline epic ride in the Snowbasin area. I flew solo on this ride starting at Wheeler Creek, riding up Maples, cruising up to the Coldwater Overlook, swinging over to the Sardine Peak trail for some more climbing and a lot of descending, then back down Maples and Wheeler, hitting Icebox along the way. This was one sweet, exhausting ride. Highly recommend this trail.

Maples TrailRiding through some of the more wooded portions of Maples. Coming across a bridge - you can see just before that a set of stairs that I had just dropped down - quite fun. This is also the bridge where a few years back I gulped down a few bottles of river water and had the ensuing nasty results!View over a beautiful meadow toward the end of Maples.

Coldwater Overlook TrailView from the trail back over the Valley.Climbing the last half mile before the Overlook, the trail is beautiful and well shaded.
This is the Coldwater Overlook - one of my all time favorite views as it looks down through Ogden Canyon and out over the city of Ogden.

Sardine PeakStarting the Sardine Peak ride you ride along this ridge a bit before you do some climbing. This is where the Sardine ride splits from Coldwater.Just before you reach ridge you will find a short trail that leads to this lookout - I don't think it is quite as good as the Coldwater Lookout, but still worth the time. Continuing from here you will cross two more trails that fork to the left and go on up to the peak - something I wasn't ambitious enough to try this day.Coming around the ridge on Sardine, this is a view over to Pine View Dam just before you start dropping down the switchbacks.These are two pictures cruising down Sardine - the trail is well shaded and a fast fun ride down. It was a blast going down on this.
This is where the Sardine Loop meets back up with the Maples Trail. From this point up the Maples Trail is much wider and quite a nice ride where they've done some additional work on it.
This is the view from Wheeler looking down to Icebox Canyon. There is a quick steep switchback out of Icebox right after you cross this bridge. I always love the wild technical downhills from this section. From here it is just a short fast ride back to the trailhead on Wheeler.