Ok so we made it up to Backbone today and covered 7.3 miles of trail. The trails are mostly doubletrack with about 100 foot sections of singletrack here and there. The inclines are rather steep and the trail is made up of 3-4 inch wide loose rocks. We pushed a lot of rocks down the hill during the climbs and ski'd the bikes back down the other side, slip sliding the whole way. If you can't make the climb and need to hike-a-bike, you'll be taking 4 steps for every actual 1 step forward due to the loose nature of the trail. There is also sand in some places here that can catch you off guard if you're not paying attention, but it's a nice change of pace from all the loose rocks.



What you don't see in the picture are the lovely new pet names Kyla is making up for me. ^_^

We ran in to about 5 other people on bikes and they seemed to be having as much fun as we were. One guy looked me right in the eye as he stalled on a climb and I could swear by the look on his face that he was doing this as part of his sentence for some crime he may have committed.

"I'll wait here, you go get the car"


My recommendation is skip it, unless you are absolutely hard up for something new and love sketchy loose rocky climbs or really want to work on your cardio and climbing technique.