I got up fairly early and packed after having breakfast at the Hotel, today I was going to drive from Flagstaff to Henderson in Nevada. The Fairfield Inn had yet again proved to be a good place to stay nice and quiet and a very comfortable bed.

The drive was fairly uneventful on long straight roads, to get to boulder city I drove over the Hoover dam, it looked as if they were building a new road to bypass the dam.

Once I had found the Bootleg Canyon trail head, I unpacked my bike and got ready to ride. As I set off on my ride I met a local rider and he joined me for the ride. We started out the ride heading up West Leg trail.

West Leg Trail Video (9MB)

Caldera Trail with Las Vegas in background

At the junction with the outer Caldera trail we headed back towards the Girl Scout Trail

We then headed down the girl scout trail, a fun fast easy rolling singletrack back towards the car park.

Then we headed west along mother trail a fun singletrack with some steep ups and downs, and turned off down the POW trail, which was fast and smooth, If I had not taken off my big ring I would have been cranking in it down this trail.

View from Mother Trail

POW Trail

At the end of POW we rode back along the Par None trail to the Car park where the guy I'd been riding with Headed home. As I still had plenty of time and life in my legs I decided to do some more riding.

Riding along Upper Lake View Trail Singletrack

From the Car Park I headed off down Middle Lake View, and then connected onto Upper Lake View. I stopped here and eat some powerbars, it was pleasantly warm with a light breeze blowing - perfect riding conditions.

View of lake Mead

Riding on Upper Lake View

When I finished riding the Upper lake view trail , I headed across the dirt road and rode back up Girl Scout Trail. It was a good way to get back up the canyon, no severe gradient or technical features to worry about.

BootLeg Canyon Map Email me for GDB file for route

As the sun was setting I decided to call it a day and packed my bike up, down at the car park there was a white van full of single speeder's, who I would see again, and again on the rest of my holiday. The riding had been fun at Bootleg Canyon, although not a scenic as the riding had been in other places - It would be well worth revisiting again though.

I then drove to my Hotel a Hampton Inn & Suites in Henderson, I had a nice quite room with a huge king size bed. After unpacking everything from my SUV (After being told by front desk if I didn't it would probably get stolen). I went to an Outback Restaurant nearby and had an ok meal, then I went to a supermarket and bought another 15 Liters of bottled water and some snacks before getting back to the hotel at 11pm.