Duthie Trails

Description for Duthie Trails

Evergreen is proud to announce the Duthie Hill Mountain Bike Park. This park is located on the Issaquah Plateau, just north of Grand Ridge Park.

The park is a nicely wooded 120 acre forest with rolling terrain and well draining soils. There is a 2.5 acre clearing in the middle, surrounding by second growth forest. Duthie Hill connects with Grand Ridge Park, which already has a 6 mile singletrack trail that connects all the way to I-90 in the south.

Duthie Hill is officially open with phase 1 complete! It includes:

• 4 flowy XC trails that can be connected into a single 5-6 mile loop
• 1-2 miles of flowy and technical freeride trails
• progressive jump lines / flow lines (VIDEO By Walter Yi: http://vimeo.com/7497151)
• tons of practice and skill-building features

Smooth, buff, contoured (flowy!) singletrack with bermed turns. All XC trails have advanced and challenging optional features including logrides, ladders, drops & skinnies.

Intermediate FR lines with medium-sized drops, tables, step-ups, step-downs, and gaps.

FR/DH flowpark with advanced drops, jumps of all shapes and sizes, wallrides, and a pump track.

Practice area with drops of varying height, skinnies, and beginner tables and step-down jumps.

All trails/lines hold up very well in the wet; expect only marginal puddles and slop under even significant rainfall.

Bootcamp (SE) XC Trail - Green Circle

The main line:

• One-way CW (clockwise) - find the start at the top of the array of drops, head back and to the right.
• Flowy, mostly buff with no significant climbs, mostly wide turns with a couple tight climbing turns.
• Beginners will be challenged, but will have fun riding the entire 1.5mi main line.
• More advanced riders will find challenge by learning how to pump and carve the entire line without braking... improving turning skills.
• There is an optional long, skinny logride to the right of the entrance.
• There are three optional ladders - the middle of which has a challenging exit - to the left of the main line in the first part of the trail.
• There is an optional challenging skinny up and over a switchback further down.
• The high point of this trail features the optional Mother Of All Logrides - a (very!) long, twisting, multi-segment logride that can be very challenging to clean in one pass. There is a second entrance to it at the midpoint for beginners to build skills.
• There is an advanced optional line to the left towards the latter end of the trail, featuring some small jump/drop options and a ladder.

Movin' On (SW) XC Trail - Blue Square

The main line:

• One-way CW (clockwise) - find the start directly across from the end of the Bootcamp trail (across the maintenance road).
• Flowy but with more technical sections and some tighter corners.
• Optional sequence of elevated ladders with steep rollout/drops to the left in the first section.
• Numerous optional low-lying logrides and skinnies throughout the trail.
• Larger Schleyer-style optional drop and elevated ladder sequence to the right at the mid-point - don't cut the corners between this optional line and the main line!
• Optional roller coaster on the right.
• There is a break in this trail between the first main section and the last climb back up, at the bottom of the flowpark. Follow the gravel trail back into the woods to the right (don't go up the wrong-way of the flowpark lines!) and take the switchbacks back up to the clearing.

Step It Up (NE) XC Trail - Blue Square

The main line:

• One-way CW (clockwise) - find the start directly to the right of the toolshed area in the clearing.
• Flowy and very fast, with a number of banked turns and undulations. Some drops.
• Start of this trail features a few small non-optional drops.
• Watch for an optional skinny log drop to the right after you flow down a ways.
• Large, well-elevated optional ladder to the right - hit this to build up speed for the clockwise berm at the bottom!
• On the first climb, there is an optional ladder to the right, that transitions to a skinny.
• Watch for a series of three optional downhill logrides to the left, each of increasing challenge. You can bail at the end of each segment, or hit all three and skip the switchbacks.
• Towards the mid-point of the trail, watch for an optional detour on the right, featuring a tight ladder to elevated logride - this can be tricky.
• As you climb back up, keep a look out to the left for an optional CCW (counter-clockwise) detour into the "Toilet Bowl" line - a short, challenging, flowy line featuring drops and jumps.

Braveheart (NW) XC Trail - Black Diamond

The main line:

• One-way CW (clockwise) - find the start to the left of the advanced HLC ladder drop across the WTA trailhead in the clearing
• Tough climbs with technical sections, tight corners and fast downhill flow.
• Start of this trail features an optional rock garden waterfall!

Ryan's Eternal Flow FR Line - Blue Square

• One-way downhill - find the start from either the NE XC (about 2/3 down the line) or from the walkup to the east of SE XC entrance.
• Gateway feature is an elevated ladder drop-in (lefthand fork of the ladder) with rollin option. Please don't cut around this feature; it is intended to filter out riders not yet ready for the difficulty of the line.
• This line features a table, step-up, small and medium-sized drops, and ladders. All drops are optional.
• The middle of the line swoops up and down the sides of a gully, for maximum flow and speed - very fun! Don't stop anywhere on this line; riders will be at great speed.
• Towards the end of the line there is an optional gap step-down.
• At the bottom, head left to get back into the clearing, or right to pick up on the NE XC 1/3 from the start.

Directions to Duthie Trails Trailhead

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