The snow is gone, go make some turns!

The snow is officially gone and it's time to ride! I found and mapped a new trail, the Buckskin Morgan Ridge trail, on the ridge across from Kelly Canyon the other day; this trail is about 5.9 miles long and has approximately 1300 ft. of vertical descent.

To get there, you need to drive past Kelly Canyon and when the road forks, take the far left road. You go another couple miles past the fork and see a sign and small parking lot; this is the trailhead. My recommendation would be to shuttle this section, or in other words drive two cars. Leave one at the top and one at the bottom, so you don’t have to bike the uphill section, unless that’s your style.

You’ll find a few tough uphill sections as well as some fast technical sections with big rocks. The trail also follows a creek for a while that you have to cross several times. Watch out for cows along the way and practice your cowboy yell so they get out of the way. You’ll also find some cow fences that you’ll have to stop for, just make sure you close them after you move through and the farmers won’t get too upset.

There is one part at the bottom that without some instruction could result in you getting lost. There will be a long downhill section followed by a cow fence. About a hundred yards after the cow fence take a left, within a few hundred yards of the turn you should be following a creek. Enjoy the ride and let me know how it was.



View Buckskin Morgan Ridge Trail in a larger map

Tuesday Ridin!!

I heard from some friends and also The Post Register put an article out that the snow has gone away enough to go riding at Kelly Canyon. We're gonna go check it out and get some turns in on Tuesday afternoon. Email me if you want to get in on it.

Why This Blog?

Being a semi-Rexburg resident for over two years I’ve noticed that there isn’t anyone telling people where to go mountain biking. Everything is word of mouth, and someone has to show you where the trails are. But where do people go to find trails that aren’t locals? That’s the question that I went through when I first moved here. The point of this blog is to let you know where to go to get your fill of riding this season without any previous knowledge of the area.

The focus will mostly be on locations that are within an hour of Rexburg, ID., Such as Kelly canyon, and to the North towards Ashton. We might even get a little explorative and drop down to Pocatello, or even Utah. My plan is make a GPS track of each trail for your downloading pleasure that will easily be seen if you have Google Earth. I have done this before to show trails of ski resorts and it works pretty well. If you are a Rexburgian or know some cool trails, let me know about them and we’ll make sure take a ride and get those maps up for everyone else. Just write me a comment and we’ll get out there

SNOW -- There’s still too much snow to go riding in the mountains! There’s defiantly less than a few weeks ago, but we’re still not able to get higher than about 6500ft. So be patient and keep riding where you can. This might be funny for some of you; but I’m going crazy, I’m so antsy to get on the trails I was dropping some rocks in front of my apartment and totally went right over the handle bars in front of a group of people. So worth it though.