July riding pics...yeah it was a good month even though "it's sooo hot!"

I still think its trail 48, it sounds right. Yankee Doodle is WAY WAY out on Senator Highway.

The best way to shuttle trail 48 is to drive up copper basin road to the top, make a right up towards Mt Francis, and take the dirt road on the right before you get to the gate. The dirt road on teh right turns into trail 260, which connects with trail 48 for a minimum of climbing.

The other way to do it is to go past the gate (I put a Rockshox sticker on this gate, not sure if it is still there but it was a few months back) and go around the access road about a half a mile or so, and a trail will drop off to the right. This is fairly steep and it was fun to watch my friend on a karpiel endo at the front of this trail with his newly bled gustavs. There are two options from here, if you take the first right you end up a little lower earlier but you have to climb back up to trail 48 a little, and it sucks a bit. If you stay left you still have to do a little bit of climbing, but nothing quite as bad and there's some cool switchbacks going this way. There is a third trail that comes in from the right, but it's pretty hard to find because of the direction it enters, you do not want to go this way because it goes back to copper basin road.

So there are basically 3 ways to do trail "48", the easiest IMO is to go down 260 which is pretty fun, but it's also cool to come around off of Mt Francis and there are some cool switchbacks and a couple drops if you make the right choices.

To shuttle back up you drive back up a road then take the first right which is the backside of copper basin and you just go back up to the top. As Monk said, there are some cool water bars at the bottom, but overall this isn't very technical.

There is the old downhill course that starts up in the same general area, although it is more difficult to find and I'd have to show you. I don't know how it is now, but a few months ago it had a ton of deadfall (and I don't have a chainsaw). A few years ago me and a friend put a lot of work on the entire thing, but all the deadfall has made it pretty pointless. Still, I'd like to be able to extend it (it's not very long) and have it go all the way down to that road that you drive back up from the "bottom" of trail 48. If done right, this could turn into the best trail in the area, but right now it's way to short.

Yankee Doodle is way way out on Senator Highway. You have to have a vehicle with SUV type clearance. You need to drive out untill you get to the 4-way (maybe its even a 5-way?) where the road on the left goes up to Mt Union. You drive STRAIGHT ahead on Senator Highway and park the car at Palace Station, then drive back up and take the (now on your right) road up to Mt Union. Up near the lookout you kind of go over the top, and on the far side (east side) of the top the trail starts, go right, and it goes all the way back down to senator highway. It's got some fun rocky-chutes, and is the msot technical trail in the area that i know of, I haven't been there in a while but I want to get back out there sometime to ride.