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 Summary: length 36kms, max height 1330m, min1066m. A wide variety of surfaces, a challenging hill if you are upto it and plenty of singletrack.
The trail head starts in your Hotel and heads up towards Mount Batur on small sand tracks. The sand is predominantly well packed but beware of deep sand pockets which test your ability to keep the front wheel heading forward. Straying off the track is not advisable. After around 5 km’s we turn onto a jeep track which leads us for around another 5km across the latest lava field. Good practice for anyone who doesn’t like rocky sections and definitely not the place to fall off! The remaining 8 km section on the crater floor returns to sand until we reach a big hill which takes us from the crater floor up 200ms (vertically) to the edge of the inner rim. It is not technically difficult (apart from keeping your front wheel on the ground) it is just a complete lung and thigh burner. For those that don't fancy the challenge there are plenty of trails which continue around Mt Batur, eventually ending up back at the start.
The next 8 km’s is along the edge of the inner rim on sand and dust trails with great veiws of Mount Batur and Abang. The track off the ridge swings downwards on a small concrete and rock singletrack path which ends in the bottom of a large canyon feature. A further few km;s of singletrack trail brings us to the lake, with a choce of more sand or tarmac back to the start.
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