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Lunch Loops Sampler (Pet-E-Kes Gunny Loop )

Mountain Biking Trail

Hard
12.36 mi
1,704 ft
While easily accessible from the town of Grand Junction, the Lunch Loops provide rocky, technical singletrack to challenge even the best of mountain bikers.

The Lunch Loops trail system gets its name from its proximity to downtown Grand Junction. With views of the downtown skyline from the singletrack, local riders often pedal out to the Lunch Loops for a quick ride on their lunch hour.

Despite being so accessible to town, overall the Lunch Loops provide highly-technical singletrack filled with rocks, rocks, and more rocks. Rock gardens lead to rock slabs, rock drops, rock rolls, and more rock-filled features. A few beginner trails lie close to the road and the trailhead, but if you venture far into the system, you'll be confronted with rocks a-plenty.

While tons of route options exist in this trail system, including the epic Ribbon shuttle run (mapped separately), the route given here is a great way to make the most of the network. Specifically, the Gunny Loop trail is one of the longest single trails in the network, providing beautiful views of the valley and sweet, serpentine singletrack. Overall the singletrack on the Gunny Loop is less technical than some of the other trails in the network, but flowing trail transitions into rock gardens rapidly, before returning to the flow.

For other great options in this area be sure to check out Free Lunch for an uber-technical double black diamond descent, Holy Cross for a black diamond trail bisecting the trail system, and the massive dirt jump park at the trailhead! Written by Greg Heil
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Route and Elevation

Segments

NameDistanceElev. Diff.Avg. Grade
Pedekis to Flat Rock1.58 mi492 ft5.9%
Pedekis to Flat Rock1.70 mi469 ft5.2%
Ped-e-kis1.28 mi377 ft5.6%
Benchwarmer (first half of Pedekes climb)0.54 mi151 ft5.1%
Pedeful (Pedekes, 'guache to 'guache)1.44 mi361 ft4.6%
Upper Ped-e-kes0.76 mi207 ft5.1%
Wattchurner (second half of Pedekes climb)0.87 mi210 ft4.3%
Betwixt Ped and Tabby0.17 mi-20 ft-0.9%
Little Park Rd Climb0.67 mi302 ft8.4%
End of Ped to Flat Rock0.23 mi115 ft9.0%
Flat rock to LP road0.80 mi197 ft4.4%
TAB: FL2LP0.64 mi52 ft1.0%
Gunny Loop5.69 mi-728 ft-1.9%
Gunny LPR to LPR including Stopper5.40 mi-722 ft-1.9%
Gunny LPR to Doubletrack1.59 mi200 ft2.0%
Endo-Buckets-20154.39 mi-837 ft-3.3%
Upper Gunny Singletrack (aka The Stopper Section)1.07 mi-180 ft-3.2%
Gunny, Top Descent: Stopper Section & Gnar DH1.95 mi-597 ft-5.7%
Gunny, Full Descent: Stopper Section to LPR3.68 mi-679 ft-3.5%
Gunny (GJOR Portion)3.50 mi-650 ft-3.5%
Gunny to Little Park (after doubletrack)2.52 mi-518 ft-3.8%
Gunny Descent1.70 mi-515 ft-5.7%
Gunny gets loose!0.77 mi-354 ft-8.3%
Gunny Descent from Gunnector1.64 mi-482 ft-5.4%
Gunny Gets Loose 20170.57 mi-335 ft-11.0%
gunny super D0.54 mi-318 ft-11.2%
Gunny Fast 0.62 mi-295 ft-8.9%
Gunny Steeps0.36 mi-223 ft-11.7%
Gunny, Mid Descent: Bottom of Gnar to Base of Climb 0.86 mi-138 ft-2.5%
Gunny Loop Brutal Climb0.28 mi128 ft8.1%
The Brutal Climb - Reimagined 0.20 mi89 ft8.4%
Gunny Sandy Climb0.09 mi62 ft12.0%
The Last Push!0.26 mi-69 ft-4.7%
Gunny to Buckets Lot from Road0.72 mi-138 ft-1.9%
Holey Bucket Climb to Northeast parking lot0.35 mi72 ft0.4%
Bucket! I'm coming in hot!0.24 mi-135 ft-10.0%
The other real time machine0.75 mi82 ft0.7%
Wizard Sleeve0.38 mi-167 ft-8.1%
Kurt's Last Stand0.29 mi-125 ft-7.8%
sandy climb!0.10 mi59 ft7.6%