Multi-colored Green Canyon: The Fall Edition

At the trailhead

I had some time this last weekend to do a quick ride up Green Canyon, which was green, yellow, brown, red, and orange this time of year.  The picture above is from the trailhead - I didn't notice until after the fact that the first tenth or quarter of mile is not supposed to be biked!  I have no clue why they banned it, but there is just a short dirt road section to where you can start biking, and you can drive right to it.

Toward the trail beginning

They've added some new singletrack so you can pretty much avoid ever having to ride the dirt road for more than twenty yards after that very first section.  They've also took one singletrack section after the first road crossing and made it less steep by making switchbacks out of it, and have built up banks on the trail sides so you can go even faster downhill.  There were also several bridges on the trail that I've never seen before, although with there being no water right now you can just ride through the banks.

Just past a few of the campsites

The trail was an absolute blast!  The uphill is really nice - nothing too brutal, but a good steady climb, but coming back down it is incredible!  I made it about 4.9 miles up before I ran out of time and had to turn back down - I believe you can't go much further than that before you hit the wilderness area boundary and cannot continue biking.  Especially this time of the year it is gorgeous up there.

Love the fall colors!

There are a lot of banked sides that I don't remember from before that allow for fast downhills.

At about mile 3.5

Go over the bridge, or take the fun dip in and out of the bank

This is past mile 4 up on the more narrow, less traveled part