 | Little Baldy
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Southside Timpanogos Great Western Trail (GWT) This is a mean little climb on nice forested singletrack with views over Utah Valley from the slopes of Mount Timpanogos. This ride is for advanced riders who relish strong climbing . Once you hit the singletrack, you'll grunt up 2000 vertical feet in 3.5 miles. That's a pretty stiff rate of climb on narrow trail. Seriously, if you're a beginner or intermediate rider, hike, don't bike. The route below climbs via the least ugly route to "The Altar" where trails come together, then uphill to Little Baldy. On the return trip, this route forks on to Trail 51 over to Dry Canyon and loops back via the singletrack BST for an 11.5 mile ride with 2700 vertical feet of climbing. |
| Riding Notes: Up-and-back with Trail 51 -
BST Loop Starts at Orem BST Trailhead 0.0 From parking, find ST BST southeast N40 19.491 W111 40.135 Alt = up SE on doubletrack 0.1 Join DT 0.8 Ignore 3 branching singletracks 1.4 Fork L uphill on ST (signpost) N40 19.788 W111 39.342 1.8 Keep R uphill 2.0 Straight, uphill 2.6 "The Altar" 4-way, straight uphill N40 20.637 W111 39.059 3.1 Faint fork, keep R (L = 51) Note this spot! You'll fork here on downhill N40 20.906 W111 38.961 | 5.1 At Little Baldy ridge N40 21.583 W111 39.112 Walk to view. Backtrack down GWT (Alternate: uphill to Dry Canyon loop) 7.1 Fork R on trail 51 N40 20.906 W111 38.961 7.9 Fork R uphill N40 20.627 W111 39.594 8.1 Keep straight 8.3 Keep R 9.1 Fork L down Dry Canyon N40 20.905 W111 40.079 9.2 Keep L 10.0 At Dry Canyon TH, L to ST BST N40 20.488 W111 40.575 11.5 At Orem BST TH Parking |
 | Orem trailhead:
Drive towards the mountains on 800 North. At 800 East, turn left and drive
north about 1
mile. Immediately past the cemetery, turn right (east) on Cascade Drive
just
before the Y in the road and drive 1/2 mile, go up 2 short switchbacks,
and
park just above the small brown building in the paved parking area. The
singletrack BST trail starts just south of the parking. Copyright 2009 Mad Scientist Software Inc
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