Broken Leg - Alpine 7 - Peterson - Sticks and Stones Lollipop

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Features Downhill · Hike-a-bike · Technical · Views

This lollipop will give you everything you'd ever want in a very challenging, high-alpine ride. The vertical will exhaust you, the downhill demands your technical best, and the views are extraordinary. This is a raw, untamed, Montana ride!

A couple miles up the Jewel Basin Rd, park at the Broken Leg Trail #544 trailhead. Climb (and push) all the way to the top of the Broken Leg trail until you EARN a nice break where it summits. Before you head downhill, take the time to hike up the top, refuel and enjoy the incredible views. The downhill to the Alpine 7 trail junction is an amazing section crossing several high alpine meadows and sidehills.

Take a right at the Alpine Trail #7 (South) junction and head towards the Peterson Trail #293 junction. This section is rarely travelled and is very faint in places. Once you're done descending for a bit, you'll climb (and push) again back up around the edge of Broken Leg Mountain where the real technical and rocky downhill begins. You'll pass the Quintonkin Trail junction and this is where the Peterson Trail #293 officially begins.

Enjoy this downhill which is very technical, sidehill and rocky riding until you reach the corner where you can see the valley once again. From here it is heavily travelled by motos so it opens up the speed but can be very loose. Once you cross Patterson Creek at the bottom, continue on the trail as it widens and then spills out onto the Bear Creek Road. Follow the Bear Creek Rd for a mile or so until you see Access Road FS 10319 and ride it all the way to the end where you'll run into Sticks and Stones.

You might be a bit tired by this point but do your best to ride as much of this trail as possible while you climb and push back to the Wolf Creek junction and head back down the Broken Leg Trail #544 section where you started and parked your car.