Red Mountain Rush is about as close to a flow trail as you’ll find. Some of the Browns Ranch stuff can be flowy ridden in the right direction.
But as you’re finding out, tech is king out here.
But as you’re finding out, tech is king out here.
Central AZ flow trails?
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So in an effort to finally go find and ride Red Mountain Rush I started at the parking lot near the river (Granite Reef dam parking lot) and headed into the system. I ended up riding up near the microwave towers and then heading north up to Red mountain Rush proper. I think that northern section is Cactus, and it totally kicked my ass. That section heading north from the tower area, up to Red mountain Rush was harder than the entire climb up towards the towers. Every bit of it looks doable as it is cut nicely and relatively smooth but man, I was gassed on many of the sections and any bit of a rear wheel slip put me into hike a bike motion for 20 or 30 ft.
RMR was an absolute blast though. At the bottom I opted to take Twisted Sister back up to mine trail and up and over and down rather than the lower trail which I think is called Riverview. Could be wrong, I think it used to be called High Horse on trailforks about a year ago. From what I remember that section is fun but has a whole lot of ups and downs which require nearly 100% effort at times and I just thought going back through TS to Mine would be the better option. Plus it allowed me to ride Mine trail which I enjoy, rather than skirting around the back side.
Overall it was very enjoyable but I don't think I'll ever purposely choose to ride up Cactus again. That's pretty much a downhill trail, for most anyhow. The better way might be parking somewhere out on Ellsworth and hitting the system from there. I just live on the west side of the hills so driving all the way back there is not something I typically do.
Turned out to be some of the hardest 13 mi I've done in a very long time.
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RMR was an absolute blast though. At the bottom I opted to take Twisted Sister back up to mine trail and up and over and down rather than the lower trail which I think is called Riverview. Could be wrong, I think it used to be called High Horse on trailforks about a year ago. From what I remember that section is fun but has a whole lot of ups and downs which require nearly 100% effort at times and I just thought going back through TS to Mine would be the better option. Plus it allowed me to ride Mine trail which I enjoy, rather than skirting around the back side.
Overall it was very enjoyable but I don't think I'll ever purposely choose to ride up Cactus again. That's pretty much a downhill trail, for most anyhow. The better way might be parking somewhere out on Ellsworth and hitting the system from there. I just live on the west side of the hills so driving all the way back there is not something I typically do.
Turned out to be some of the hardest 13 mi I've done in a very long time.
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