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Shooters Canyon
6 reviews
3.5 of 5
Trail is fun. It is a little bit slippery from the small rocks so be careful. You can haul ass and the single track is nice cause you know everypart to look for when you are riding up. Oh ya, don't be a dick, if you see someone coming down, let him have his fun and move out of the F*cking way. Not many blind corners either, so you WILL see people for way ahead of you.
From Santa Rosa going west, make a right on Highland right at the far entrance to Calpoly. Ride Highland all the way down until the ag area, make a slight right at the fire road where the grain silos are and then a left at the top of the short hill.Follow fireroad waaayy back making sure you close gates behind you. RIde fireroad to train tracks and make left. RIde along tracks for about a mile (be sure you hit some of the downhill verts, really fun!) Next gate you come to, make right and go up the steep fireroad for a while(probably going to walk a bit. Then Make left where trail starts and is cut out of mountain. Ride to the top! water. GO down! Repeat over and over again. when you are done, opposite side of the tracks where shooters started and there will be another gate, fun little single track down and then you are in Calpoly AG land.
Summary: Just my two cents, Whoever posted this review has things a bit backwards. Trail right-of-way is always given to the rider going UP! It is much more difficult to remount and get started while climbing than it is while descending. Also, while "having your fun" on the downhills, it's certainly not everyone else's duty to get out of your "f##king" way. Who's the dick?
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Summary: This is a fun trail and good for intermediate to advanced beginner riders. However, it is not a downhill bomber run. Anyone who knows the area, knows that this trail is used to reach the top of the grade for acess to other, better, rides. Bombing down it and waiting for folks to move over is silly. If you want to ride down it for some reason, then please observe the rules of the trail. Also turn out for a workday with the Central Coast Concerned Mountain Bikers once in a while (which will also help clue you in about the other, much better, trails on West Cuesta Ridge!).
Recommended Route: Ride up Stenner Canyon, take the double track past the locked gate/bridge crossing on the left. Follow it up past the gate until it turns to single track. Follow this right on up, you can see Shooters climbing the entire grade right in front of you. If you ride down, take a left on the RR tracks and follow these to the head of Poly Canyon and take the various singletracks down and out Poly Canyon. This creates a better loop than going in and out the same canyon.
Other recommended trails in the same area: Morning Glory, Dairy Creek, Powerline, Coasters, Cerra Alto
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Summary: Did it today up to the TV towers from stener creak and this climb was the bomb, kicked arse for 5 miles then smoothed out to a fast grind for the last 2, hook it up to the poly loop and its close to 3K climbing in 20 miles, very sweet but do not FU!
Recommended Route: Stener, cross the train tracks then bobsled it to the grind, which is choice, to the the top
Other recommended trails in the same area: Ridge trail/isley creak/ E boundry loop. steaper harder at times and much faster, but got insurance?
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Review Date December 23, 2003
Overall Rating 5 of 5
Aerobic Difficulty 4 of 5
Technical Difficulty 3 of 5
Ridden Trail: Once a week
Visitors rate this review 5.00 of 5,
1 votes
Reviewed by: Mike
,
Cross Country Rider
Summary: Shooters is awsome. A good training climb that you can work as hard as you want (race a buddy, middle ring it, bust a lung racing yourself, or spin easy), and a fast downhill. Get hooked up with locals for more technical descents/longer rides/other routes. Oh, and there are great views from the top. Absolutely amazing on a clear day (which most days are in SLO). Provides acess to TV tower road, which can take you all the way to Cerro Alto.
Other recommended trails in the same area: Talk to a LBS or some locals.
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Review Date May 16, 2003
Overall Rating 3 of 5
Ridden Trail: Once a month
Visitors rate this review 1.00 of 5,
2 votes
Reviewed by: Joe
, from SLO, CA
Summary: Pretty long uphill, not terribly difficult. Downhill is not that fun because you're always about 10' from a cliff, so it's scary to go very fast. Not many jumps either.
Recommended Route: You can go up the grade side (boring fire road) or up the shooter's side (recommended)
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