Local Rides

nospam@example.com (Shad Hamilton) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:39:05 -0700

The Tour De Lander website has some excellent route descriptions and profiles of some classic local road rides. Click on "route samples" to view them, after you're on their website: Tour De Lander Route Profiles

Fairfield Hill is a good area for hiking mountain biking. Above is a good loop on it that I ride every once in a while.

A classic Lander Road Ride.

Once the road to Shoshone Lake is open (usually late June) this is a fun loop to mountain bike on. It's a 33 mile lolly pop and it usually takes me about 4 hrs round trip- from Lander.

Just up the road from Lander about 50 miles, there's some great mountain biking too. This is a loop we did up in that country a couple of years ago. We started in the East Fork, went up over Spring Mountain and down into the Horse Creek drainage. We returned to the East Fork via the badlands behind Dubois.

A great little loop to ride up the East Fork.

If you have permission to ride on the Homestead Park Road, you can actually ride almost all the way to the top of Fairfield hill. If you're looking to rack up the vert... it's a good one! You need permission though. Don't poach!

The "Bus" an area of BLM land along the Squaw/ Baldwin road offers some excellent mountain biking too. Hope to have some route info posted about that area soon. It's probably the closest and earliest MTB riding. It also sounds like our club will be partnering with BLM folks to do some work on this area. It seems interest is high in creating and preserving recreational opportunities for people in this area.

Other classic MTB riding areas around Lander include: Beaver Creek X-Country Ski Area on South Pass, Sinks Canyon (Loop Road/ Snowmachine Trail) and single track all round NF campground, Government Draw- off the Lyon's Valley Road, and Johnny Behind the Rocks (more BLM about 15 miles out of Lander towards Jeffery City). There lots more too.

If anyone has any trip reports, route descriptions, maps or info about riding in any of these areas that you would like to share with folks... email me and I'll get it posted.

Happy Trails!

Thursday Night Time Trial

nospam@example.com (Shad Hamilton) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:36:48 -0700

Lander Cycling Thursday Night Time Trial Description:

Thursday Night Time Trials are back on! The first one was 5/27/10

This is purely for fun so don't be shy come out and ride with us. This is an informal event that we would like to encourage folks to participate in. The course is from City park to Sawmill Campground. The distance is 6 miles with approximately 700 feet of climbing at about a 2% grade average. The idea is to ride it as fast as you can. We will keep time all you need to do is ride. The road is open to traffic but the shoulder is nice and wide. Riders are responsible for themselves so you all need to be careful out there. This is purely for fun. Volunteers keep track of the times and results will be posted periodically on our website. If you participate and don't want you results posted, be sure to tell that to the timers at the Time Trial. The first rider will go off at 6:00pm and the subsequent riders will go off at 1 minute intervals after that. Warm up at your leisure before 6:00pm and be at City Park a little before 6:00pm so we can get a start order together.

Here are the results from 5/27/10:

LANDER CYCLING
THURSDAY NIGHT TIME TRIAL
Lander City Park to Sawmill Campground (6.2 miles)

Date Name Male / Female Elapsed Time Place Average (Top 3)

5/27/10 -Hamilton, Shad/ M/ 23:48.68/ 1/ 24:50.63
5/27/10 -Kulow, Kevin/ M/ 25:08.18/ 2/ 24:50.63
5/27/10 -Brauneis, Chris/ M/ 25:35.03/ 3/ 24:50.63
5/27/10 -Schuster, Chuck & Wagner, Karla/ MF/ 25:52.48/ 4/ 24:50.63
5/27/10 -Webster, Web/ M/ 29:18.97/ 5/ 24:50.63
5/27/10 -Hartpence, Sam/ M/ No time/ Flatted

Here is a link to last years results (4/2/09 through 9/4/09)... CopyofLanderCyclingTime_Trial.xls

Lander Cycling - Rides

Local Rides

Thursday Night Time Trial