by Missoula Bike Works for intermediate to advanced riders. It is a technical, heart-thumping ascent, a roller coaster downhill, with a saunter up Sheep Mountain in between. From the parking area at the base of Mount Jumbo Saddle, ride north to the Blue Point/Sheep Mountain Trail #513. Ascend Blue Point and then Sheep Mountain for a 360-degree panorama of wild Montana at its finest. Take a break and eat some lunch, but don’t lose it screaming down Sheep Mountain. Keep an eye out for the turn that brings you out Rattlesnake Creek or you’ll be riding to your car on HWY 200 instead of single track.
Ben Donatelle tells us: I got my first Huffy Dirt Bike on my fifth birthday and from then on spent my days terrorizing the neighborhood and riding the roads and trails of the Midwest. For the past nine years I have lived, worked, and played around Boze- man, MT. I like to ride bicycles, wrench on mechani- cal contraptions, ski, snowboard, garden, and arrange words to create somewhat meaningful ideas.
YOU GET A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING—
STEEP BUT RIDE-ABLE CLIMBING, OPEN MEADOWS, VIEWS OF SIX DIFFERENT
MOUNTAIN RANGES, AND FAST, FUN DESCENTS.”
“ESPECIALLY LIKE[S] THE HOLISTIC NA- TURE OF THIS RIDE.
BANGTAIL BIKES ROB AT
www.distinctlymontana.com
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