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Bear's Best: Perma Grin Figure-8

Mountain Biking Trail

Hard
9.79 mi
841 ft
Fantastic swoop and flow in the desert outside of Las Vegas.

The Bear's Best trail system is located on the southwestern corner of the Las Vegas Metro Area. This expansive trail system offers a serious spider web of interconnecting singletrack trails. It mashes into the Southwest Ridge trail system to such an extent that it can be difficult to tell where one trail system ends and the other begins. It can even be connected to the Cowboy Trails and the Blue Diamond Trails without much difficulty. In short, the web of trails on this side of Vegas offers a limitless number of ride options, of which this is just one.

The loop mapped here sticks to intermediate-friendly trails to create a flowy, entertaining, but approachable ride on swoopy desert singletrack.

The ride begins by following the main climb from the park into the heart of the trail system and then branches off to the left to traverse the Benchmark trail. After swinging around the ridge, the route makes for the Man with a Van trail, which offers a rolling descent to Triple Tittie. Triple Tittie keeps the rolling downhill rocking, but to get back to the trailhead and the marquee descent of the ride, you'll have to climb a bit to re-gain the saddle.

Once back on top of the saddle, the rest is gravy! You'll drop into the Perma Grin trail, which is almost guaranteed to paste a grin to your face for the rest of your day. This swoopy downhill rockets up and over an endless series of whoop-de-doos on smooth, flowing singletrack. Be careful: you might want to catch air in a few places, but the landings can be sniper! However you approach the trail, you'll be whooping and hollering by the end of it! Written by Greg Heil
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Route and Elevation

Segments

NameDistanceElev. Diff.Avg. Grade
BAWAL ANG SUPOT😝1.27 mi148 ft2.2%
BURAT ALLEY💪0.67 mi95 ft2.7%
First Dirt Extended0.41 mi52 ft2.4%
Show me whatchu got⚡🤴0.50 mi66 ft2.4%
First Dirt Variant0.33 mi30 ft1.7%
Around the Inside Up1.88 mi171 ft0.9%
TK up0.92 mi144 ft2.9%
T.K. TATLONG KIKI⬆️0.79 mi131 ft3.2%
Bench Mark downhill0.85 mi-89 ft-1.8%
Man to Schwifty0.82 mi187 ft4.3%
Beat the Man with a Van UH1.52 mi187 ft1.1%
Beats the road0.52 mi-85 ft-2.8%
Beats the road extended0.74 mi-72 ft-1.0%
Beats the Road Better0.40 mi-56 ft-2.6%
Stairway to Heaven dh0.30 mi-52 ft-3.3%
Gambler0.26 mi-138 ft-9.9%
1.21 gigawatts0.56 mi89 ft1.9%
Permagrin0.88 mi-174 ft-3.5%
Singletrack Roller Coaster0.95 mi-174 ft-3.3%
PermaGrin0.84 mi-174 ft-3.8%
Perma_Grin_rollers0.73 mi-148 ft-3.8%
Permagrin Extended Cut1.02 mi-180 ft-3.4%
The Fun Part0.20 mi-75 ft-6.9%
3 Pumps0.25 mi-33 ft-2.2%
Last Dirt Variant0.36 mi-43 ft-2.3%
KUPAL ANG KULELAT🏆1.30 mi-151 ft-2.2%
Short Happy Ending0.26 mi-33 ft-2.4%
See u later, alligator🐊0.69 mi-89 ft-2.5%
JAKULERO MAHULI🧴0.87 mi-98 ft-2.1%