{"id":434080,"date":"2018-07-05T18:34:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-06T00:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=434080"},"modified":"2018-10-17T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-17T23:22:10","slug":"tbt-walrod-doubletop-loop-9-13-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/tbt-walrod-doubletop-loop-9-13-17\/","title":{"rendered":"TBT: Walrod- Doubletop Loop 9.13.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>This post is part of a Throwback Thursday series featuring trip reports that we haven\u2019t had a chance to write about until now! Look for them on Thursdays!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Doubletop is well known by Crested Butte locals as &#8220;double up, no down&#8221;.  As in, it&#8217;s uphill both ways.  And it does feel that way, to be sure, if you&#8217;re riding the whole thing.  But if you catch the right segment, it&#8217;s sometimes downhill the whole way.  With a couple of small segments needed for our Trailquest goals, Brittany and I tackled one such section last fall.<\/p>\n<p>We headed up the Walrod Wall, then up 412, which was amazing while the aspen leaves were changing.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/716.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"Trail 412 Cement Creek crested butte\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up was 405.3A (great name, eh?), which was a wall in its own right.  From there, though, we were onto the gravy- all downhill on a glorious fall day.  First, we had some traversing, high in the alpine.  If you&#8217;ve been on doubletop in a thunderstorm like I have, that&#8217;s all you can remember for as long as you ride that trail (it&#8217;s been over 20 years for me).  No thunderstorms on this day, however.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/325.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"Doubletop crested butte mtb\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more READ MORE!--><br \/>\nOne thing about Doubletop- it always keeps you guessing.  Sometimes, that means some really steep and loose sections, like these ones.  Totally rideable, there are actually a lot of fun.  Brittany:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/330.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"doubletop descent on mountain bike\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Frank:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/239.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"mountain bike doubletop\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/245.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"trail 405 crested butte\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back to Brittany on trail 405 (aka Doubletop):<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/walrod-doubletop\/330a.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"crested butte area mountain biking off the beaten path\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From there, we retraced our ride on 412, which is a great descent as it follows a small creek. And of course we finished off on the Warm Springs trail, which had some great re-routes last year.  Here&#8217;s the map:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/embed?mid=10Tz-OmL80zy2iBPgUVXw6e-Qp8BnZ1YW\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doubletop is well known by Crested Butte locals as &#8220;double up, no down&#8221;.  As in, it&#8217;s uphill both ways.  And it does feel that way, to be sure, if you&#8217;re riding the whole thing.  But if you catch the right segment, it&#8217;s sometimes downhill the whole way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":434087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-crested-butte"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434080"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434450,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434080\/revisions\/434450"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}