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<\/a><\/p>\nIt had rained a bit the previous two days which I am pretty such set this place up for near-perfect trail conditions.\u00a0 It was a little brisk out (by us San Diego weather weenie standards) but long sleeves or a second layer fixed that.<\/p>\n
We basically followed this route from MTBProject<\/a> with a couple of slight variations.\u00a0 Another good site for trail info out here is Trailforks<\/a>.\u00a0 Of course chit-chatting with the folks at McGhies Bike shop<\/a> where this loop starts from it always a good call.\u00a0(16 Cottonwood, #B, Blue Diamond, NV 89004)<\/p>\n The counterclockwise loop we did started out from town\u00a0and connected up with the\u00a0Landmine Loop trail up and over a saddle where we then turn mostly westward.\u00a0 This was some quality cross-county desert cruising action.<\/p>\n From Landmine we turned on Southcut and then picked up the Lawnmower Saddle\u00a0trail where we did a bit of climbing before dropping down to connect up with the Rubber Ducky trail.<\/p>\n After Rubber Ducky we were had a nice long stretch of barely needing to pedal buff goodness.<\/p>\n We eventually connected back up with the Landmine Loop trail where the trail got a little more rockier for a while before we got back into mostly buff trails.<\/p>\n We did have some clouds shadow things up a bit off and on but for the most part we beautiful blue skies with big puffy clouds for the bulk of the ride.<\/p>\n If you look closely you can see some board members of the Pacific Crest Trail ASSociation out tromping around off trail.<\/p>\n We closed off the loop with a fairly mild bit of climbing with a couple of gullies to navigate.\u00a0\u00a0 This was a nice loop and I\u2019m looking forward to getting back out here and exploring the rest of the trail network that is out in this area.\u00a0 The only other riding I have done around Las Vegas has been The Cowboys Trails<\/a> just up the road a bit from Blue Diamond.\u00a0\u00a0 At some point I\u2019m going to check out Bootleg Canyon as well.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n