Very cool!
“13” and “22” you really can’t do “fast”. I’ve been through “13” in less time than normal but usually in the winter when the voids of the trail are filled with ice and snow and kind of flatten it out…and of course no one breaks anything.
If I remember correctly “22” has is tough at the bottom. I almost flipped over taking a bad line and slipping off a boulder going down and there is a crazy turn and climb up after that requires a bit of skinny pedal balls; lots of fun.
“Snakebite” starts off a “Purple” that has been widened and flattened since they clear cut around it. That’s really not worse than any “Blue” you’ve been on now. You guys will breeze through it.
The middle part is a “Black” with a short section of two options; high and low near the end.
The low is a rock garden that you’ll need to pick your way through.
The high is tight and can get you a bit off camber at times. It can get a bit scary and is too narrow to turn around or back out of so you might want to walk it before you try it. I wouldn’t run the high option in the winter or the rain.
The last part is a “Black” wide rock garden with many lines to pick. You guys should handle it without a problem.
I normally try to run “13” first whenever I visit Rausch to avoid any crowd. So if you and your group want to run it with me it would be great.
It is my favorite trail and has been different every time I’ve run it.
If it’s not raining I might run “16”, the “Black” hill climb at the end of “13” I pussied out of running it last time I was there...
Yikes!
