June 27, 2006

Los Alamos Dirt - Fireline Trail - Acid Canyon Loop

Sometimes it's good to take the low road. East of Los Alamos, into Bayo,Canyon...there it is,
the Fireline Trail. It's new, it's swoopy, it's dusty, it's curvy and it's bad-ass. It's short though. When doing the the Bayo-Acid Canyon loop it's a good way to get off the fire road as you are heading east in Bayo. The sweetness about it - is that you get to check out all the dorky McMansions on the cliff side and just hope and and pray thet you are there when a little mass wasting brings those puppies crashing to the valley floor.

To get there - take the Bayo Canyon trail east from the Los Alamos round about and when you hit the bottom, you'll see it snaking east along the north facing slope of the canyon. It drops you onto the fire road which then takes you to the sewage treatment plant, where, just after that, you will hang a sharp right and head back west up Acid (pueblo) Canyon on a fire road- past the rock penises and up Walnut Canyon and back to town. It's a good 1.5-2 hour loop and you will probably not see anybody - which is always a good thing.


Fireline view...where's the dynamite?



The east end of Fire Line
Acid Canyon is trippy man