Location.  Location.  Location.  Actually, more like views.  This Saturday, Mike Tom, Petro and I decided to try out a section of the newly opened Ann's Trail in Draper, Ut in the corner canyon area.  If you need a trailmap, click here.  I've found that finding them online is pretty tricky, mainly because they change so fast. 

I didn't take very many pictures because we didn't stop on the trail at all (mike) but I'm glad we didn't at the time.  The new section of trail is a fun up and down ride like mid mountain or the crest.  In fact, this ride is kind of a mini-crest in the sense that you climb strait up (in this case Clarks Trail) and then stay high, cutting out early to bring to the same place you left or continuing on to go onto a dedicated downhill into another outlet.  We went up Clarks, took a right onto anns near the top and rode that to traverse ridge road, on your right are three trails, uphill, downhill center and downhill right.  I'm not sure what the other two are but down right (the well established singletrack) is Potato hill which leade back the the BST which leads back to Coyote Hollow and the car. 

Here is mike surveying the valley.


So, Mytracks got a little wonky at the end when we broke mach 4, but if you follow along you can see basically how we did the trail.  you will notice there are two tracks, one goings south and one north, you are not seeing things.  When we finished with the Anns loop we were fresh and the conditions were right.  Tom, Mike and I decided to go up clarks one more time and show Mike the good times that can be had on the rush trail.  All in all i would guess we rode about 8 miles or more.  It was a really good ride and I would recommend this shorter anns loop to anyone.  It only took us like 45minutes total for each trail for an hour and a half total ride time.  Check out the video above, and in high def on youtube.  Or download it from the mobile section.

Draper Rim/Anns trail

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Monday, September 19, 2011

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