az trail from picketpost trail to roosevelt lake

[john the bugman]

Has anyone rode from picketpost trail head to Roosevelt lake on the AZT trail?

[maettu99]

This segment is not allowed for mountainbikes because you will hit the Superstition Wilderness. I encourage you to respect the Wilderness closure for mountainbikes.

But if you like to do a lot of HAB and bushwhacking, you can try the Superstition Bypass over the Gunsight Gap section that Scott Morris proposed.

http://www.topofusion.com/azt/super.php

Good luck!  

[AZTtripper]

There's a fair bit of trail, that you can ride North of Picket Post. Just not all the way thru to the Lake. I've been out to Roger Trough http://www.aztrail.org/passages/pass_19.html and then ridden S towards Picket Post. That's the shuttle way when you camp with the wife, you could ride up the 2 wheel road or a 4 wheel road to make a loop.

That's http://www.aztrail.org/passages/pass_18.html it's not Wilderness so we're legal. The next two passages are Wilderness, pretty sure Scott and Lee are the only ones to do Gunsight Gap. After the 4 Peaks we had worked out a way to rejoin http://www.aztrail.org/passages/pass_21.html at FR 422, this worked a couple of times but fires have kept it off the table.

So far no one is complaining that the AZTR course is too easy, so I doubt we'll see either of these segments added to the race course anytime soon.

[ScottM]

Kurt recently bikepacked the Gunsight Gap (Superstition Bypass) route pioneered by Lee and myself.  He didn't much like it, other than the geology and scenery.  Haunted Canyon is a beast, for sure.  It works, it goes through, but isn't really recommended.

This weekend is the AES "Picketpost Punisher" which is a free endurance event featuring 30, 50 and 80+ mile loops all including the Montana Mtn and Whitford Canyon section of the AZT.  The course do loops on both sides of Picketpost / US 60.  So those trails do get ridden....