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Paiute Side Trail 005(sh)

So why do I keep riding ATV trails instead of designated bicycle trails ? I don't know. But it must have something to do with the way I pick destination summits. I pick them if the topopraphy looks interesting on the map. And since this is a nation of many more motor heads than hammerheads, the route leading there is more likely to be an ATV trail.

So is this one. Like many other trails/roads in this area there is no interesting view from the gentle forested top. The interesting topography comes at the edge of the plateau, during the decent to Beaver. Unfortunately that's also where all the rocks and the torn up sections are.

1.START-END SOUTH-1:jct 1200E - Ut153, east of Beaver
2.jct with Kent's Lake Rd on right
3.profile turns left onto PST005
4.TOP, 9800ft
5.profile turns left onto paved road
6.START-END SOUTH-2:same as point 1


Approaches

From South-1. The largest part of this side if the profile is the paved road up Beaver Canyon. The turnoff onto this unpaved road is located at a major parking area with a good map on a sign post.

This side is very ridable. It leads up a shallow ravine, that always has another higher section show up, just as you reach the apparent summit. There are no views from the top of this flat forested plateau


From South-2. A much smaller part of this side is ridable. Ridable and unridable sections alternate almost in a regular fashion. Short stretches are extremely rocky and steep.

At maybe half height an open view direction Beaver opens up. This occurrence is rare enough, that two picnic tables have been transported up here, and tracks indicate this is a major meeting point. The remaining way down also opens up a few views back onto high peaks in the Tushar Mountains. Nexit: a memorable, unexpected sandy stretch, that can cause faceplants. I can testify to this. Following the PST005 signs, leads over an ever so gently descending alluvial fan back to the Beaver Canyon main road.

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Dayride with this point as highest summit:

PARTIALLY PAVED / UNPAVED

( < Beaver Canyon Rd s(u) | Clear Creek Summit > )

Paiute Side Trail 005 s(u) : a short distance up FR122 > down FR122 > up Beaver Canyon Rd > PST005 west > Paiute Side Trail 005 s(u) > down PST005 on west side > North Creek Rd south > ending near jct with Beaver Canyon Rd: 28.7miles with 3790ft of climbing in  5:30hrs (garmin etrex30 m3:22.6.1)
Notes: At mileage 20.x I noticed that the rear skewer and the rear derailuer hanger screw were gone, as well as a rear deraileur hanging in the chain. This probably had its original cause from a crash several miles earlier in a sandy section. I covered the remaining distance with a mixture of coasting down the shallow alluvial fan and walking. In Beaver Creek Canyon I was saved by Ron and Deb in an ATV truck of sorts (at least that's what it looks like to me) who drove me back to the starting point. This is the second ride on this trip that i couldn't finish on my own.


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