It has been a remarkably long time since I last rode the Wasatch Crest trail. It was great to get out on it today and enjoy the lingering wildflowers at upper elevations.
They seem to be hanging on unusually late this year, but that's just an anecdotal impression.
More than 25 years ago, when I first moved to Utah, we used to ride from what is now known as Canyons Village, up what was then the Park West Ski Resort, to the top of Mill Creek. We would then drop all the way down Mill Creek and back to campus or the Avenues. Using the cantilever breaks of the time, one would get to the bottom of Mill Creek and not be able to get your hands out of a claw.
Modern disk breaks are simply amazing and they handle such a descent with no problem. Plus the recently completed upper pipeline means its single track all the way to Rattlesnake Gulch. And, instead of descending down the heinous Rattlesnake gulch, one can "snake" down the Rattlesnake section of the BST, pictured below.
You youngsters don't know how good you have it.
Kudos to the bike manufacturers and trail builders.
Now with e-bikes and commercial shuttles people don't even have to work up a sweat to ride endless single track
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