Merritt BC. A high traffic town that’s often left in the dust. Unless you know what it has to offer. One of these things is amazing DH mountain bike trails on Iron Mountain that are easy to shuttle. The best way is to have odd man out shuttles from the Info Center. You can easily get 3-4 runs in. We were on bigger all mountain bikes, Phat tires would help here too!
The shuttle up is ~20km and takes about 20-30 minutes, Each lap takes about an hour give or take for photos, flats and blow down. Give yourself a 1.5-2hr turn around. So if you have 4 or 5 people in a truck you will each get 3-4 runs 1100m runs.
98 is the easier of the DH runs and gives you the longest ride back on the technical Godey trail, you can also opt to push up to Lonesome Pine and ride the Ridge trail or other info center trails if you want an easier option. 99 to Treat to the alternate Tyrant are steeper with more techy rock options. Rotary Wankle and Fifi are STEEP! But puckering STEEP, Godey Steeps is just steep.
The info center, very busy, hot, nice place to hang out, they have a Samosa truck!
All trail start here.
Steep, rocky technical, 99.
Steep, rocky technical, 99.
Rotary Wankle, Fricken STEEP!
Andy and Jac on 99
Relics of the past.
Elephants head on 99
Steep, rocky technical, 99.
Steep, rocky technical, 99.
The less steep of the three on this side.
All rides end heading back to the info center.
Steeper section of 98
Steep technical section of 98, there is a ride around.
Lonesome Pine, top of the Info Center trails.
Ridge trail above info center. They say its a black, but not compared to Iron Mt.
View from Ridge trail overlooking Merritt.