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Milk and Cookies Loop Got Milk? And Cookies. Plus beginner-level Combo trail option. This ride is a six-mile loop on McCoy Flat west of Vernal. It can be ridden either direction. The components are the Got Milk? trail to the west of the McCoy Flat road, plus the And Cookies trail on the east side. The ride is quite easy technically. There's only about 200 vertical feet of climbing for the entire ride. View northwest 1.5 miles into the ride. Photos May 20, 2010. |
| An even-easier option is to link And Cookies with Combo.
This makes a 3.5-mile loop of very easy singletrack suitable for
beginners.
Got Milk? is an intermediate-level trail with some up-and-down riding. And Cookies is easy-intermediate, and Combo is very easy both technically and aerobically. Paintbrush is scattered over the brown slopes. This ride is more sight-seeing than tech challenge. |
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When done clockwise, the most technical riding will come
during the first two miles. Got Milk? starts with two possible routes that
rejoin after 1/3 mile. Just after crossing the paved road onto dirt
doubletrack, two singletracks fork right, about 100 feet apart. The first
singletrack has fun ledge drops (nothing bigger than 18 inches) and is
more technical.
The Retail Sale fork. Go right. But don't go up to More Pimps, which is the next (tiny) ST on your right. Wait for the main fork 100 feet later. |
| After the trails rejoin, the next fork will be Fire
Sale.
Keep right (straight). Fire Sale is an expert-technical route that joins
Retail Sale.
At mile 1.3, keep left on the wide trail as Retail Sale forks left. You'll notice a small singletrack forking sharply on the right, climbing stiffly up the ridge, about 30 feet past the fork. This is More Pimps, still under development in May 2010. Keep straight on the main route another 100 feet, then take the next singletrack on the right. You should be heading northwest. Mudstone formation in the long valley. |
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More Hoes forks off Got Milk? at mile 1.5. Keep right to
stay on Got Milk? In general, the trail follows the wash between the two
ridges.
The trail rolls a bit up and down, but there are no stiff climbs and the trail surface is easy. |
| The trail exits the hilly area around mile 3. Cross a broad
flat grassy area heading northeast, then cross the paved McCoy Flat road.
A little bit later, you'll reach the fork, where Got Milk? ends in And
Cookies and Combo.
Fork left to continue on And Cookies. The trail will wander toward the edge of the hills, then veer back to flat brushland. Penstemmon. |
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If you're tired and just want to get back to your car, go
right at the fork above onto the Combo trail. Combo will take you back with a minimum of
climbing.
On And Cookies, around mile 5 into the main loop, you'll pass the fork to Jackalope. The trail begins to dip and turn. There will be a little climb to get above the corral, then the trail will circle around to come in from the south. More gently twisting trail, as we near the northern end of the loop. |
| Riding notes, Milk and Cookies clockwise loop: 0.0 Cross paved road to DT N40 21.019 W109 34.913 Immediately fork R on ST N40 21.003 W109 34.928 Easier route: 100 feet on DT, then fork R 0.3 Trail merges with alternate route N40 20.992 W109 35.163 1.1 Keep R (L = Fire Sale) N40 20.830 W109 35.982 1.3 Trail merges with ATV track Keep R at fork (L = Retail Sale) N40 20.716 W109 36.093 1.35 Pass tiny ST on R Take ST on R 100 feet past Retail Sale fork N40 20.711 W109 36.120 1.6 Fork R (L= More Hoes) N40 20.811 W109 36.348 3.6 Cross paved road N40 22.117 W109 35.663 3.9 And Cookies / Combo trail fork, go L N40 22.061 W109 35.481 5.0 Keep straight (R) at Jackalope fork N40 21.412 W109 34.992 5.7 Cross DT N40 21.126 W109 34.800 5.9 Keep R (Jackalope joins on L) N40 21.022 W109 34.806 6.0 Back at corral |
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Above: And Cookies is easy, but
Combo is even easier. Left: Orange globe mallow blooms in the May sunshine. Beginner route! Riding notes, Cookies and Combo counter- clockwise loop: |
| Getting there: While driving toward Vernal on US-40, pass mile marker 138, then turn right on the narrow paved McCoy Flats road (unmarked, N40 23.427 W109 35.752). If you miss McCoy Flats road, go to the viewpoint overlooking Vernal and backtrack exactly 2 miles, then turn left into the road. Drive 3 miles to a corral on the left and park there. The trail starts directly across the paved road from the corral. At the doubletrack, veer right onto singletrack trail. Camping: BLM land, primitive camping allowed. No developed
sites. |
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| Riding resources for this trail: Single-page riding guide GPS track files (right-click and "Save as..."): Garmin GPX Large-format area topo map (220K): View map Lodging, camping, shops: Links to Vernal area resources |
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