This past Saturday I finally had my chance to ride a good old favorite, the Scott Peak Loop Ride. I used to ride this loop quite often when I lived on the westshore but now that I have relocated to Truckee it makes it a bit tougher to get over there as often as I would like to. The ride starts our at 64 acres park in Tahoe City, taking the bike trail south towards Sunnyside. Turn right at Rubicon deli and start heading towards Granlibaken. At the Granlibaken Sign turn right, sorry but I only remember landmarks and I am not so good with street names. Ride the street till it dead ends into a fire road with a closed gate. This starts the long uphill ride to Paige Meadows and unless you have done this ride before you climb for a longtime. Note: the climb to Paige has completely chaged since the forest service came in and cleaned up the forest. The climb starts out as a double wide fire road and turns into a single track. There are a couple of places to turn off but keep going straight and uphill. I wish I had the timing down but I could guess at about 45 minutes from TC to Paige. Once your in Paige you kinda free to explore, their are soo many trails to choose from its really riders delight. The goal is to get to the fire road that is on the backside of Paige meadows or in other words if you get to a place that seems like its going to take you down a rocky fire road down to ward creek turn around and head back and turn to your left. Ride up the single track and take the first left you see. The trail seems kinda funky and super rocky, you will know your on the right trail when you have to dismount to walk across a few man made bridges and once you've crossed youwill end up on another fire road. You should see signs and evidence of logging equipment and thats how you know your in the right place. Head up the fire road till you get to a T in the road, at this point you can choose to go right and go back to Tahoe City or go left and go to Scott Peak.

If Scott is your destination head left and enjoy a nice fire road that climbs and descends alot. The final turn will be a left that you will not miss, it goes UP. Take this fire road all the way to the top, and it starts out with an easy climb that keeps going up and as you get closer to the top it gets more technical and steeper. But once you arrive at the top you will enjoy amazing views with very limited blockage of your views. The best part of this ride... you get to go back down and its a fun, fast float of a downhill ride. There are so many options to get back home that I just go back to Paige and aim towards Flinstones which dumps you out near Tahoe City Lumber. I wish I could detail the ride better but all in all its a tough ride, bring lots of water and your climbing legs. The ride can be around 17-20 miles with a good elevation gain that tops out at Lakeveiw chair in Alpine Meadows. Don't be afraind to ask direction when your on the trail because you can easily get lost with the vast trail system.

Labels: Alpine Meadows, Lake Tahoe, Lake Tahoe Mountain Bike Trails, Mountain Bike

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