Here is a quick 3-4 hour hike from Bear Valley Town to the Bear Valley Mountain Resort.
The Garmin track file (.gdb) will be found here bloodridge.gdb, click on it to download.
Garmin GPS track: Bloods Ridge Hike/Bike
To start this hike, drive your car or otherwise get to Avalanche Road.
Walk the bike up to the top of the ridge. From here you can ride pretty much,
depending on your horsepower all the way to what is Lunch Run at the ski resort.
There you will have to trudge up the bike again to the top of Lunch Run.
Continue from there along lunch run to the mountain ridge to the east.
One possible route is along this ridge to Kuma and down HogsBack to the parking lot,
and from there down 203 to Hwy 4 and back to Bear Valley. If you are biking, then take
Hwy 4 back to town... it's downhill 95% of the way, and you can get huge speed going.
Another route is the trail from the ski resort to Flynn Road via Flynn Road to ski area.
Preferred if you are on foot, as you don't really want to walk on hot asphalt all the way to Bear Valley.
Some pics taken during this bike hike:
View to west, from Bloods Ridge
Climbing up Lunch Run
Vista atop of Lunch Run, looking to Southwest
ski sign for out of bounds
View to west, from Bloods Ridge
Cool rock formation
far end of Lunch Run
Plenty of snow on LONG Lunch Run
Lunch Run near resort
Lunch Run near Kuma Chair
Comms tower behind Kuma
Lots of snow left on Porridge Bowl
Mt Reba
footnote: a .gdb file is a Garmin tracks file... you can download it to your GPS. This hike is easy enough not
to need a GPS, but it's here for you just in case.
Comments:
Note: You must be logged in to add comments2006-06-25 16:57:37 The ski resort would be a great place to do recreational motorcycle hill climbs... —TonyZuccarino
2006-07-15 14:59:02 btw, this hike and bike was a hard slog, at least for me... gaining altitude without a gas engine is always hard work, esp at 8000 ft. —TonyZuccarino
2007-11-01 21:01:45 I think it already is used as such, just not legally. Check out the backside some summer to view the massive ruts and continuing erosion damage left by the testosterone deficient. —DanAhlborn
