Sedona MTB Videos

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OK so I figured the snow this morning was a perfect time to put up some short vids we took last week while riding in Sedona...Temp 70deg every day and sunny🙂 4 of us went, few guys from the board--@onetracker, @merritt, and one of my brothers.

All vids are first person POV, helmet mounted. I don't ride particularly fast or super sketch stuff(but everything we saw was ridable), but the trails were fantastic to ride and the background scenery was like a painted Hollywood set. Really just documentation of the trails we hit up out there, and we hit up a lot...a few show up here🙂 Get there if you ever have a chance!!


Mescal Trail


HiLine--basically the ridge portion of trail...unreal vistas and views. I have height issues and this trail was somewhat of a challenge for me...



HiLine going down on back of ridge...


Chuckwagon Trail


Baldwin Trail


Brian
 
How did you like HiLine ? Were you able to ride the cray stuff on the backside ? That shit was super tricky but very rewarding to clean it .
What a great place to ride .
 
Not even close. .lol
Id like to think it's because of my tires and xc bike but that kind of riding is a different mindset and I didn't want to ruin an epic trip by getting dead.
Other than that, Sedona is MTB PARADISE! !!!
 
rottin' said:
OK so I figured the snow this morning was a perfect time to put up some short vids we took last week while riding in Sedona...Temp 70deg every day and sunny🙂 4 of us went, few guys from the board--@onetracker, @merritt, and one of my brothers.

All vids are first person POV, helmet mounted. I don't ride particularly fast or super sketch stuff(but everything we saw was ridable), but the trails were fantastic to ride and the background scenery was like a painted Hollywood set. Really just documentation of the trails we hit up out there, and we hit up a lot...a few show up here🙂 Get there if you ever have a chance!!


Mescal Trail


HiLine--basically the ridge portion of trail...unreal vistas and views. I have height issues and this trail was somewhat of a challenge for me...]

Brian
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NICE TRAILS!
I think I'd enjoy them better walking, but that's just me....I can't hold a line for sh*t and I'd be over the side for sure!
 
ktmrider said:
How did you like HiLine ? Were you able to ride the cray stuff on the backside ? That shit was super tricky but very rewarding to clean it .
What a great place to ride .
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Loved it, pretty much loved every trail we rode there, which was 7 days of pedaling🙂
Was not able to ride it...stopped and walked down it. I would end up in hospital if I tried to ride that section 😕Couple riders from British Columbia bombed down and it and were really impressive! Good job by you cleaning that section!!

Can't wait to go back next year!!
 
I don't recall the names of all the trails I've ridden there, but your Hi Line videos look very familiar. I rode a bunch of that area and further up toward Oak Creek Canyon the first time I was out there (which gets greener and greener the further up you go) and stuck more to the desert trails around Cathedral Rock and Bell Rock loops out near Bike and Bean the last time I was there. It's really awesome out there - like as good as it gets. I'm curious if you had the same feeling I did, though: I've been there a few times now and no matter how much I ride, I still can't get a good feeling for distance. Like I'll pop out on a ridge and be looking down on Sedona's main drag and think I'm like 15 minutes away, but when I start to ride down, it's many more miles and more than an hour. It's the one place I've ridden where the scale is that hard to estimate.

The videos are awesome, by the way - glad you had a great time!
 
Thanks Marty! Here is a list of trails we hit up there...

Old Post Deadmans Pass Chuckwagon Baldwin Western Civilization
Skywalker Mescal Thunder Mountain Templeton Jim Thompson Trail
Herkenham Yucca Tea Cup Big Park Loop Crusty
Rams head Dawa Soldiers Pass Bell Rock Pathway Adobe Jack
Ridge Cockscomb Jordan Llama
Sketch Aerie Javelina Bail
Scorpion Rupp Grand Central Phone
Pyramid AZ Cypress Slim Shady Lizard Head
Long Canyon Anaconda HiLine Girdner

Agree on the perspective angle---like going to Vegas and everything looks close until you try to walk it🙂
 
Nice!! Have ridden out west but never Sedona...would love to try that someday...looks like you had a great sampling of the trails. Seems like a month's worth of riding crammed into a week. Good job.
 
These are great! I hope the camera is making the ledge narrower that it really is.... Otherwise I think I'd shit myself at those pinch points on the trail. 😱
 
Thanks for sharing the videos, looks like you had a awesome time,
and it brings back great memories.

I need to go there on a dedicated bike trip
When I go there with my wife,
I use up every bit of good will sneaking in rides.

When you are planning next year's trip,
check this loop
It connects a lot of my favorites Northwest of town.

Edit: did you guys use the IMBA MTBProject app?
Great coverage out there.
 
We did do that loop . All the trails there were really good. Can't wait for next February . This map was extremely useful and we brought it on every ride. 20160305_142248.jpg
 
jmanic said:
Thanks for sharing the videos, looks like you had a awesome time,
and it brings back great memories.

I need to go there on a dedicated bike trip
When I go there with my wife,
I use up every bit of good will sneaking in rides.

When you are planning next year's trip,
check this loop
It connects a lot of my favorites Northwest of town.

Edit: did you guys use the IMBA MTBProject app?
Great coverage out there.
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We did a very similar loop one day which was awesome...the one video I posted is actually Deadman to Mescal portion...

We did a 31mile loop another day that had some of those trails: road from our house...Old Post-->Skywalker-->pavement for like 1/2 mile-->Girdner-->Chuckwagon-->Lizard Head(out/back)-->Girdner-->Rupp-->Cockscomb-->Western Civilization-->Skywalker-->Old Post-->back to town house. @4:30min moving time, 31 miles, @3600ft elevation gain. Was a great ride but was pretty cooked at the end for sure.

We had MTBproject stuff but didn't use it; we had an idea of what we wanted to hit and also avoid, and we bought some current maps from the shop(Over the Edge). They even added some new trails that were not there during printing of 2016 map🙂

I have more video that I am sorting through and will post them up as I get to them...

Wife already told me that she expects this to be yearly trip for me so I got that going for me...
 
Just uploaded a new video from the Templeton Trail from this trip...was a fun trail that had desert slick rock type riding then transitioned into fast flowy ST...

 
Juggernaut said:
These are great! I hope the camera is making the ledge narrower that it really is.... Otherwise I think I'd shit myself at those pinch points on the trail. 😱
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Nope...the ledge was really that narrow and close to the edge.
 
See you lost me at "...blah blah blah....roller.....blah blah blah..."😉 I see that and I say "Where do I go to get down to that trail down there...that doesn't involve me going down THAT"😛 that stuff was above my pay grade lol

Super impressive how you hit that stuff!! Probably a combination of some pretty violent crashes I've had the last 2 years, not having the stones to attempt, as well as not quite the right skills to confidently ride it keeps me from hitting those sections.

And what amazed me out there was that every feature that was integrated into the trail networks was ridable--whether natural terrain or built up. You just need to commit completely to pull some of it off, and the pucker factor for me had me second guessing.

Good stuff...post up any other pics you got of the cool shit you cleared!!
 
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