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McCall Idaho Mountain Biking - Loon Lake

6 September 04 | Permanent Link  | Add Comments

On Sunday, Christian, Fred, and I ventured about 30 miles from McCall, Idaho to ride a mostly single track trail to Loon Lake. We dropped a car off at Ruby Meadows and then proceeded to Chinook Campground (toward Warren). The trail offered up a little bit of everything, and was by far one of the best trails available in the area for the MTB enthusiast. Instead of riding the Chinook loop, we came out at Ruby Meadows, where we had left one of the cars. The ride was about 16 miles.

Upon arriving at Loon Lake, our major objective was to travel, mostly by foot, around a good portion of the lake and locate a B-23 Dragon bomber that had crash landed 50 years ago. The most amazing part of this wreckage was that all 8 crew members survived.

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  1.   #1 Comment Posted by Gil on Aug 24, 05:16 PM
    I love that lake I used to ride it all the time.. we would do it as a loop and ride the road back to the car I think It’s about 28 miles that way. But that was when i was 16 and riding every day.
  2.   #2 Comment Posted by Jason Crites on Apr 12, 09:10 PM

    Great photos! That has always been one of my favorite rides. There are also some great hotsprings along the trail.

  3.   #3 Author Comment on Apr 13, 07:56 AM

    I’ll have to go back sometime and enjoy those host springs I keep hearing about.

  4.   #4 Comment Posted by Rob on Oct 8, 01:45 PM

    Those photos are great! I want to check that out. I have hiked in the area but not at Loon Lake. Ill go the first chance I get.