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Trail Description:
start at timberline lodge. The terrain is from loose sand, dirt, and rocks to packed dirt, mud, gravel. Watch the jumps at the beginning (first 2 miles) they are very dangerous. It gets very fast the trail widens a little and is pretty smooth. You have to cross hwy. 26. After that it is an old gravel road tha is not used anymore for about 4 miles. There is one uphill right before crossing hwy. 26 that is steep but not very long. If you are energetic you can ride this trail twice before lunch.
How to get there:
Head East out of portland on hwy. 26, follow signs to rhodedendron park one car at the park/campground on the eastside of the town thats were the trail ends. Keep driving east follow signs to timberline lodge park in the parking lot,ride west from the lodge
about 100 feet or till you see the trail giong down!
Additional Notes:
watch those begining jumps, this is a very fast trail you can go as fast as you possibly can.
| Posted by: Eric Tergerson on 6/15/2010 |
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more of a mellow sustained pitch, with some rough
parts and some buffed parts. This runs into the
crosstown a little further into govy, approximately
where The Huckleberrry and Charlie's Bar is (a little
further down a paved road).
In either case, when hitting the crosstown you'll
want to go right. If you continue to take a right
when confronted with any forks, you will continue
on to the Bridal Trail. There are some additional
trails in this area, but they all immediately go to
little lakes or ponds. and tend to be loops anyways.
If you happen upon any stunning pond vistas, you
took the wrong trail. "Broken Spoke" talked about
riding hwy 26 to get to the entrance to the Bridal,
yes this is true and a simple way, but the ghetto
way as well. =P The Crosstown links up beautifully
with the bridal.
The Bridal Trail more or less follows hwy 26, and
when it dumps you out, there is one HUGE piece of
advice i have: DO NOT ride that crappy gravelly t
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| Posted by: Eric Tergerson on 6/15/2010 |
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that same elevation until you are directly under the
"storming norman' lift. Then, by looking at T-line's
trail map, the rest should be self explanatory. You
can cut down at a diagonal into the entrance of
these trails in any combination of ways, but the
least confusing is to traverse directly over to the
Stormin' lift, and follow it straight down until you
hit either trail. Plus, when we were riding it, it was
super fun underneath that lift…..
The Alpine trail is steeper, and rougher. Real rough
and rocky in some places. This is where me and my
buddy cut our teeth on downhilling. The added
bonus of the 'pine is being able to come out at the
top of government camp, at the Chevron gas
station, through the Summit ski area. You should
look to your right for a trail that forks off before
riding into the ski area, this is what leads you into
the Crosstown trail.
The Glade on the other hand is more of a mellow
sustained pitch, with some ro
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| Posted by: Eric Tergerson on 6/15/2010 |
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trail over across the other side of 26 (the south
side) Stay over on the rider's right (north side) of 26
and ride down 50 yards or so, and look to your
right, and find a way to cut through the trees. You
will get onto a paved road (take a left of course)
that is super fun to bomb down. When it dumps you
back out onto hwy 26, THEN, cross the highway,
and you will find some more fun trails. This ride
ends at Dairy Queen and the the one grocery store
thats kinda overpriced. Where there should be the
other shuttle car, a blizzard, and many beers
waiting.
Cheers.
yall can contact cloudkap@yahoo.com for any
questions.
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| Posted by: Eric Tergerson on 6/15/2010 |
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trail over across the other side of 26 (the south
side) Stay over on the rider's right (north side) of 26
and ride down 50 yards or so, and look to your
right, and find a way to cut through the trees. You
will get onto a paved road (take a left of course)
that is super fun to bomb down. When it dumps you
back out onto hwy 26, THEN, cross the highway,
and you will find some more fun trails. This ride
ends at Dairy Queen and the the one grocery store
thats kinda overpriced. Where there should be the
other shuttle car, a blizzard, and many beers
waiting.
Cheers.
yall can contact cloudkap@yahoo.com for any
questions. -and there seems to be a letter # limit,
so this looks like its in reverse order
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| Posted by: Eric Tergerson on 6/15/2010 |
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You are right, it can be confusing as to which trail
to take from the top of timberline, especially since
the Jeff Flood lift was added. But overall, it is really
simple, with these two things in mind: There are
only 2 trails from Timberline down into Government
Camp. The Alpine Trail, and The Glade Trail. Both of
them run into govy and the Crosstown Trail, which
runs east to west "behind" govy. Both of these trails
don't fork off in any real way, with the exception
being the Alpine, which at one point is possible to
connect over to the Glade, so no real danger there.
Also, both of these trails are easily identifiable on
Timberlines' Trail map. In both cases, you are going
to be best off by finding the hiking trail (Timberline
Trail?) that traverses west across the mountain,
starting from the parking lot of the historic lodge
(by the swimming pool). This means riding/walking
up the road to the highest parking lot. Follow the
trail and stay at
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| Posted by: Sean on 7/7/2002 |
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Just to clear things up, here are the actual trails you ride from Timberline to Rhodadendron. From Timberline you take the Glade trail down. This will connect with Crosstown (there is no need to ride the road as the posting below indicates). Take Crosstown until it ends and pick up the Pioneer Bridle Trail. The PBT runs all the way down, crosses highway 26, and then runs flat (and obscenely bumpy) parallel with 26.You can also make a loop out of this by starting at Camp Creek CG (along 26), riding the Still Creek trail to the Forest Rd, and then riding about 8 miles up to Govt Camp. From here you ride by Trillium Lake and the nearby campground, cross 26, and either ride up the ski area to catch Crosstown or ride down 26 about 1/2 mi to the SnoPark where Crosstown ends and PBT begins. From there, just ride PBT stright back to Camp Creek CG.
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| Posted by: Broken Spoke on 2/27/2002 |
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I've ridden this trail a few times. I wanted to add some additional trail directions from the end of the Glade trail (Timberline to Govy): Once you come out at in Govy turn Right onto the Hwy (stay on the right side of the Hwy). Ride till the Bottom entrance of Ski Bowl and turn Right onto a semi-paved forest service road. about a 1/4 mile in you will come to a trail head with a posted trail map... there are some fun trails to play around on if you feel the urge. (There is also single track from Glade to this point but the trails aren't marked so I won't try and explain) From the trail head take the trail head to your left (heading in the Direction of Portland/Rhododendron). There is a couple trail splits but they tend to be dead ends that go to scenic points. You come out on Hwy 30 about 3 miles before Rhododendron. Cross over to the other side and you'll find some old forest service roads that run parallel to the Hwy. Th
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| Posted by: Ezra Lusk on 9/6/2001 |
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You should give better directions. There about 5 differnt trails that go off from the west side of the loage. I have riddin up there about 5 times on varous trails and I cant even figure out witch trail your talkin about. If you get a map you can figure it out but its not marked well at the top of timperline.
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