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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 from 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. Having mastered the sand we turn onto a jeep track made from compact cobble size pieces of lava. Good practice for anyone who doesn’t like rocky sections and definitely not the place to fall off! We continue on, below steep volcanic cliffs before we reach a big hill which takes us from the crater floor up 200ms (vertically) to the edge of the inner rim. This notoriously steep hill is not technically difficult, apart from keeping your front wheel on the ground, it just never lets up. Give it a go.
Having made it up the hill, you ride along the top of the cliff with great views of Mount Batur and Abang. The track off the ridge swings downwards on a small concrete and rock singletrack path which takes you past small remote communities eventually ending at the bottom of a large canyon feature. A few more km’s of singletrack trail brings us back to the Crater Lake, with a choice of more sand or tarmac back to the Hotel.
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