![]() Truckee Trails embarked on a “Listening Tour” this past summer, meeting with user groups to get input on their needs and desires for new trails in the region, and important fixes to existing trails. ![]() Next up, Truckee Trails will be working with the USFS to kick off a trails plan for the Truckee Ranger District. A motorized trail paralleling the east side of the 06, called the Timber Cruise.The one-mile Gentle Jeffrey Trail that runs from lower to middle Sawtooth Trailhead, built as a non-motorized alternative to the 06 road.Re-construction of the Happy Face Trail.The Ridgeline Nature Loop, a meandering trail at the Sawtooth trailhead, designed with wheelchair, stroller and strider bike users in mind.Construction (and reconstructed improvements) of the popular Wood-splitter Jump Trail.The Compass Skills Loop, designed to help people new to mountain biking develop necessary skills.Many of these will serve as important connections between neighborhoods like Sierra Meadows, Ponderosa Palisades, Schaffer’s Mill and Martis camp, both to town and to each other. Importantly, Truckee Trails is also working with the High Fives Foundation to ensure trails, both new and existing, are suitable for adaptive mountain bikers.Īdditional highlights of Truckee Trails’ work (with some help from Momentum Trail Concepts) in the Sawtooth Zone since 2020 include: Three more trails are planned for this zone, likely completed in 2024. “But these trails not only enable easier commutes to town, they also facilitate a host of alternative routes when recreating.” “Trail connectivity is a big factor in helping reduce the amount of car traffic in the area,” said Allison Pedley, executive director of Truckee Trails. ![]() New trails this year include the Crosscut Trail, connecting Gentle Jeffrey and Sawtooth Trails, the Back-cut Trail, connecting Happy Face with the West Side Trail at Schaffer’s Mill, and the Sawyer Trail, connecting the Back-cut Trail with the West Side Trail. Tricia and Curtis on the Flume Trail, Tahoe in the background.Truckee Trails volunteer day on Sawyer Trail. ![]() I know I like those rear pockets, but doing without them really showed me how much I use them.Ĭurtis on the edge of Marlette Lake, just before the Flume Trail starts. I packed the bikes, the helmets, gloves, shorts, shoes, but somehow missed the jersey. Even our on-the-bike time of just over two hours seems amazingly slow. By climbing I mean blowing out our lungs in the rare air, slipping in the loose dirt and occasionally (much to our annoyance) having so little traction we had to get off and push.īut the trail itself, running uphill from Spooner Lake to Marlette Lake, then along an old Flume and eventually to the old Pondarosa Ranch of Bonanza fame has views that make it darn near worthwhile.īeing a roadie at heart I have issues with climbing 1300 feet in 13 miles and having it take 4 hours. How far could we fall? Would we hit the lake? Why did we think this was fun?Īt least we’d die with the satisfaction of having climbed up to 8156.3 feet. We had plenty of time to think about this as we rode through the startlingly loose sand and gravel. So if one were to fall from three-foot-wide Flume Trail ledge above Lake Tahoe it would be possible to gain amazing speed as one plummeted to ones death. There is no oxygen (or air in general) above 7000 feet, and therefore little wind resistance.
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