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| Coming down a steep section on the newly constructed trail |
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| Starting up the trail from 3500 North |
I went out and hit, shortly before the snow storm struck, a trail section in North Ogden. Most of the trail, other than the Shoreline section you are on briefly, is unnamed, so I've dubbed the trail the Mason Cove Trail until further notice. You start from the eastern end of 3500 North, and after 50 yards or so on a doubletrack it swings up into a singletrack trail that climbs up to the Shoreline trail. This section starts out okay, but gets tricky to find as it intersects several trail, occasionally forks out, and you have to keep your eye out. Most of the time you just keep heading north on the trail and up when you can. One section, about a half mile up, pops out on a doubletrack, but about 30 yards later you see a singletrack split off to the left again and take that.
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| Cranking up the first section before it gets steep |
After you make it a little way up it starts to get really steep and more technical. It is narrow in some sections, with little cacti on either side that you have to be careful of, and then occasionally goes through a grove of trees becoming very steep and very technical. I took it slow this day so it wasn't too bad, and it was a lot of fun to come down - tight turns, narrow track, high speeds.
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| Particularly steep, technical part on the first trail section |
About a mile or so up you hit the Shoreline and follow that west for a half mile or so until it has another trail intersecting it up to a retention pond, which you take and at the end of that you pop onto a trail that has been in the works for about two years and is still incomplete. This trail again is pretty technical, and since I last rode it they have fixed it up again, but it got even more technical. It was still pretty dry and fun to ride, with occasional snow patches to the sides of the trail.
It was pretty cold this day, but was a lot of fun to get out. Might be the last time I get a dry trail until the spring.
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| Just leaving the retention pond and heading onto the new trail |
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| The trail pops out into open rocky section on occasion - this spot is shortly before trail end |
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| On the new trail coming through a forested narrow singletrack section |
