Wasatch Front Canyon Climbs
I like to ride up the local canyons on my mountain bike
and eventually got interested in seeing how the various canyons compare.
So, I got out the old topo maps, a pencil, a ruler, and a six-pack of beer
and started measuring distance vs. elevation alongs the roads.
The original version wound up in data files for xgraph
since that is what I knew.
Since then I have started using gnuplot
.
(so I can put arrows and labels in my graphs!)
This year I have also started riding off-road much more
so there is now a page for real
mountain bike rides!
There are a number of
sources of error
in the current data.
There are also a couple of
future directions
I might explore.
The Canyons
(
= Unknown,
= Easy,
= Moderate,
= Hard
)
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City Creek
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Emigration
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Parleys (I-80)
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Mt. Dell (Big Mountain)
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Lambs
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Millcreek
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Big Cottonwood (to Brighton)
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Big Cottonwood (to Guardsman Pass)
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Little Cottonwood
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American Fork
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Provo Canyon (North Fork)
Others
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Composite graph of all the canyons
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Snowbird Hillclimb (Little Cottonwood)
Mike Hibler
<mike@cs.utah.edu>
Last modified Sat Jun 24 1995