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Double Pumper -> Iron Curtain Loop

Mountain Biking Trail

Moderate
7.54 mi
857 ft
A pedal-forward ride that traverses through the heart of the trail system and explores the Eastern Bloc.

This pedal-forward mountain bike ride in Cumberland Forest traverses through the heart of the forest then heads over to the little-ridden Eastern Bloc area of the trail system.

The ride begins by ascending the easy Spanker and Shaker trails near the dirt road. These trails connect to entrails as they traverse through the heart of the trail system to get over to the Eastern Bloc.

The character of this route is up-and-down the entire way, so enjoy the flowy down bits on Rugburn and, eventually, Upper Crafty Butcher to Double Pumper. Double Pumper especially is a fun, flowy down, but after that, you're officially in the Eastern Bloc.

The Eastern Bloc comprises the little-ridden eastern side of the trail system and it's renowned for short, punchy climbs and descents that are over all too soon. This area is still home to some gorgeous singletrack, but it's decidedly more cross-country in nature. Even still, beautiful views off of some of these trails combined with sidehill singletrack and sections of deep, dark forest and massive ferns make for a fantastic trail ride with far fewer people to contend with.

Top Hat and Iron Curtain are two of the best descents in the last half of the loop, with Top Hat descending from a bald high point, connecting on a dirt road, and then dropping again on Iron Curtain. The descents here are a bit more natural than those in the core of the trail system, but they are still quite intermediate-friendly.

Once off of Iron Curtain, you can follow twisty up-and-down singletrack to get back to the trailhead (as mapped), or simply pedal out easy on the mostly-flat gravel road. Written by Greg Heil
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Route and Elevation

Segments

NameDistanceElev. Diff.Avg. Grade
STRAVAAA! ๐Ÿ”ถ0.19 mi-30 ft-1.3%
Dogshit Alley0.43 mi157 ft6.9%
AH there goes my DERAILLEUR $@!#%0.25 mi115 ft8.5%
Unnamed Rd Climb0.85 mi279 ft6.2%
just another boring road 0.82 mi207 ft4.4%
Stand Up0.43 mi131 ft5.8%
Spanker Up0.36 mi69 ft3.3%
Shaker East Up Rugburn Swamp Monster1.32 mi125 ft1.1%
New Shaker to Entrails Road Crossing0.34 mi92 ft3.5%
Entrails_Rugburn_Swamp Monster0.99 mi75 ft0.4%
Rugburn(southbound) - official0.41 mi52 ft1.9%
Rugburn (Stopping at Scat)0.23 mi36 ft2.5%
Swamp Monster0.48 mi-89 ft-2.8%
Double Pumper0.46 mi-167 ft-5.5%
๐Ÿคœ แ—ชOแ‘Œแ—ทแ’ชE แ‘ญแ‘Œแ—ฐแ‘ญEแ–‡ ๐Ÿค›0.36 mi-151 ft-7.9%
๐‘…๐‘ข๐‘“๐‘ข๐‘ ๐Ÿถ ๐‘ก๐‘œ ๐‘‡โ„Ž๐‘’ ๐ถโ„Ž๐‘Ž๐‘–๐‘Ÿ ๐Ÿช‘0.35 mi72 ft2.0%
Rapture Cut0.32 mi30 ft1.3%
Rapture continued 50:1 to Turkey Vulture0.61 mi-92 ft-0.2%
๐•ฝ๐–†๐–•๐–™๐–š๐–—๐–Š ๐•ฎ๐–š๐–™๐Ÿ”ช0.24 mi23 ft1.7%
๐•ฝ๐–†๐–•๐–™๐–š๐–—๐–Š ๐–‘๐–”๐–Œ ๐Ÿ”„0.35 mi46 ft0.4%
๐Ÿ˜‡๐•ฝ๐–†๐–•๐–™๐–š๐–—๐–Š ๐–ˆ๐–‘๐–Ž๐–‹๐–‹0.26 mi59 ft4.1%
Turkey Vulture Climb0.36 mi187 ft7.9%
Top Hat0.40 mi-121 ft-4.1%
๐ŸŽฉ0.36 mi-135 ft-7.0%
Bottom of Top Hat0.26 mi-89 ft-6.2%
Iron Curtain0.45 mi-112 ft-3.9%
Full Curtain0.80 mi-246 ft-5.4%
Iron Curtain proper0.32 mi-98 ft-5.3%
Carpet match the Curtains?0.38 mi-66 ft-3.2%
JOSH West Bound0.86 mi92 ft2.0%
Josh's - 50:1 out0.75 mi-13 ft-0.1%
Just Joshin' Ya ๐Ÿคฃ0.43 mi-13 ft-0.3%