White Pine

Shawn Brooks and I rode White Pine-E Ticket 2 weeks ago. White Pine is up Buckhorn Canyon, across the road from Donner Pass. White Pine is an old jeep road that takes you approximately 3 miles up to a saddle connecting White Pine East and White Pine West. The jeep road is the steepest road you'll never climb clean!

The road climbs through some aspen groves and then opens up into a meadow a 1/4 mile before the saddle. Here is a pic. looking south towards Donner Pass, Lookout and Signal Mtn.

At the saddle you pick up a wicked singletrack that drops you a few thousand feet down a narly, rock infested singletrack linking up to Old Flowers Road.

The E-Ticket continues following Old Flowers Road towards Pingree Park Road. At that juncture you jump onto Monument Gulch road which takes you back to the base of White Pine. It approximately 15 miles, and 3500 vertical feet of climbing. Brutal.