Tish Tang Tang Trail
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 20.46 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,180 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 3,094 ft
- Max elevation
- 3,889 ft
- TrailRank
- 26
- Min elevation
- 436 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 3 hours 44 minutes
- Coordinates
- 622
- Uploaded
- May 19, 2009
- Recorded
- May 2009
near Hoopa, California (United States)
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Itinerary description
Spring 2009
I drove to the 'PARK' waypoint and rode up to 'Trailhead', the gravel road ends here and single track begins. After about 600' there is a sign high on a tree that says "no bicycles or motorcycles beyond this point". The Tish Tang trail takes off to the right just before the sign. The trail is seldom traveled, rough, and non-technical. Not worth the effort to get there in my opinion. It dumps you on an old road that climbs gently back to the way you came. Figured 'Shale' and the Upper Downhill sections would be similar so I skipped them. Rolled down to 'Roller TOP' and that's where the fun started! This was a great trail with lots of variety and character, highly recommend. You pop out on the original gravel road, hang a right and find the start of the Lower DH. This is an old motorcycle trail but it's not overly steep and has some nice swooping corners, but I thought the best part was the kind of alien landscape that was whizzing by. You descend through a forest of tall leaf trees with long bare trunks with a canopy so dense there is no sun hitting the ground.
If you go, I would recommend skipping the Tish Tang and doing the Roller and Lower DH twice ;)
I drove to the 'PARK' waypoint and rode up to 'Trailhead', the gravel road ends here and single track begins. After about 600' there is a sign high on a tree that says "no bicycles or motorcycles beyond this point". The Tish Tang trail takes off to the right just before the sign. The trail is seldom traveled, rough, and non-technical. Not worth the effort to get there in my opinion. It dumps you on an old road that climbs gently back to the way you came. Figured 'Shale' and the Upper Downhill sections would be similar so I skipped them. Rolled down to 'Roller TOP' and that's where the fun started! This was a great trail with lots of variety and character, highly recommend. You pop out on the original gravel road, hang a right and find the start of the Lower DH. This is an old motorcycle trail but it's not overly steep and has some nice swooping corners, but I thought the best part was the kind of alien landscape that was whizzing by. You descend through a forest of tall leaf trees with long bare trunks with a canopy so dense there is no sun hitting the ground.
If you go, I would recommend skipping the Tish Tang and doing the Roller and Lower DH twice ;)
Waypoints
Waypoint
619 ft
DH END
13-MAY-09 16:06
Waypoint
1,837 ft
DH TOP
Six Rivers National Forest
Waypoint
445 ft
PARK
13-MAY-09 12:34
Waypoint
1,812 ft
Roller END
13-MAY-09 13:15
Mountain Bike
2,486 ft
Roller TOP
Due to recent logging the start of the trail is hard to see. If you spot a large tree with a burned out hollow near the ground the trail can be picked up maybe 50-100 feet below it. Then not much further along the trail gets hard to spot again, just look for the pile of garbage and you will be back on course.
Waypoint
2,322 ft
Shale END
Road
Waypoint
2,851 ft
Shale TOP
Six Rivers National Forest
Waypoint
2,682 ft
Tish Tang END
Road
Waypoint
3,579 ft
Tish Tang TOP
13-MAY-09 14:34
Waypoint
3,497 ft
Trailhead
13-MAY-09 14:21
Waypoint
1,933 ft
Upper DH END
Six Rivers National Forest
Waypoint
2,500 ft
Upper DH TOP
2500 ft
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