Day 11 - Winter Park ski resort

Day 11 - Winter Park - Mountain Biking

We were able to get a bike map from the Hotel, as the resort had closed its lifts, and was not officially open for biking.

Winter Park Singletarck xc Mountain bike trails

The friendly staff at the Hotel recommended that we ride up the Icarus trail - as this would gain us a lot of altitude fairly easily compared to riding up singletrack trails. The Icarus trail started off as a steep dirt road which was a long old slog.

The trail eventually narrowed to singletrack called sunnyside. Before arriving at the Mary Jane Ski area.

We stopped and ate some power bars in the warming hut at the mary jane ski area, b before heading off along the trail Upper roof of the rockies. Nice singletrack with snow in places.

We then rode the fantasy Meadow loop, a nice easy loop trail with great views, before heading down the trail Lower roof of the rockies to Sunspot.

We stopped and admired the view, before heading off along long trail, then we went down upper Cherokee

The trail had great singletrack and wound its way down through the woods, at this point it started to hail, but we were protected by the trees. As we left the trees the hail stopped and we connected back onto the lower part of the long trail

We then rode back along Serenity to the Hotel.

Ride was about 17 miles in total. We then had a swim and used the hot tub. We then went into winter park and had a look around the shops, and then had dinner at Randis Irish pub but the food was rubbish

DAY 12