Review: Rode this trail yesterday. Forest road climb is one of the longest continious climbs I've ever done - great warm up. And after I've reached a trailhead, there was one more even steeper climb on singletrack. Downhills are straight and simple. The only thing that kept my attention was chunky portions with rocks, covered by leaves. Also met a black bear on the top. The trail by its remoteness reminds me Maah Daah Hey trail. And it's simple but something makes me to want to ride it again. There're two options: ride it out-and-back or park your car along Route 629 and then ride a trail one way and return to car on pavement.

* Review edited 10/12/2012

Review: I've yet to ride the whole trail because it has kicked my butt every time. Definitely an EPIC trail. Steep climbs here and there. Fast downhills. Technical rock gardens going up and down. All the good stuff is here. Camping in the GW National Forest is a lot of fun as well.

Similar Trail: Reddish Knob

Review: Rode trail for the second time this weekend. Besides being an IMBA Epic, it could also be called a MTB Classic. Trail is as close to riding in the wilderness as you can get on a bike. Steep grade at the beginning, but mellows after that. Trail has seen a lot of bikes recently so has a well defined easy to follow tread (6-12 inches wide). Parts of the trail are in need of some brush clearing, so speed will be limited by your tolerance for brush whipping. Speed is not what this trail is about anyway. The big downhill is clear, so speed away!

* Review edited 5/31/2012

Similar Trail: Any in the area.

Review: Trail is not well maintained! Many bushes and weeds growing over trail. Uphill climbs are slightly ridiculous in terms of %grade. Also you can't go fast on downhills due to overgrown trails.

Review: A must ride if you can get here. The trail head was tough to find but the guys at Shenendoah valley bike Co. were extremely helpfull. The payoff on this trail is absolutely worth it. The climb to the top is a steady easy ride on a fire road for about 4 miles. Take a left on the shenendoah mountain trail and follow miles of sweet singletrack. The trail had quite a bit of overgrowth so a GPS came in real handy. At times it seemed like the trail just disappeared. The widest the trail gets is about 12 inches making it very challenging especially at high speeds. Total length of ride was about 36 miles and 5 hours so bring LOTS of water and stuff to eat. There is a reason why I.M.B.A. calls this trail "epic".

Review: I rode from the parking up the 4 miles of fireroad, then the 10.5 miles of up and down singletrack ridgeline to the mostly 5 miles downhill and had a pickup at Scotchtown Draft Rd. Gave me a fantastic twenty mile ride getting the major climb done at the beginning and enjoyed a downhill ending. If you want to ride an out and back, I'd recommend starting at Scotchtown Draft and riding up to the top of the singletrack about 16 miles and return. Don't run the fireroad then. This trail does have a fair amount of exposure on sometimes narrow trail. Not super technical, but have some moderate experience. Be wary in wet conditions. One of my favoritetrails anywhere.