Beginner Can ride smooth, flat, or gently rolling dirt paths with no technical features. Comfortable braking and basic steering. Examples: paved paths, groomed gravel trails, wide dirt roads with minimal grade changes.

Beginner+ Handles easy singletrack with minor obstacles. Can navigate small roots, gentle berms, and slight descents without features. Developing brake control on moderate grades. Examples: flowy beginner singletrack, small rollers, gentle switchbacks, packed dirt with occasional roots or rocks.

Intermediate Rides most natural trail features with confidence. Can handle moderate climbs and descents, small drops (up to ~1 ft), rock gardens, and rooted sections at a controlled pace. Examples: natural singletrack with embedded rocks and roots, small tabletops, simple berms, modest wooden bridges.

Intermediate+ Tackles more committing terrain with growing confidence. Clears drops up to ~2 ft, rides technical switchbacks, and handles rooty/chunky lines. Beginning to read trail features and commit to them. Examples: larger rock gardens, drops with a small consequence, steeper natural descents, entry-level black trail features.

Advanced Comfortably rides black-rated trails and technical features. Handles drops 2–4 ft, steep chutes, tight technical switchbacks, exposed terrain, and black-diamond trail designations. Confident body positioning and line choice. Examples: black trails, gap jumps, steep loose descents, large rooted drops, advanced wooden features.

Advanced+ Rides double-black and expert-level terrain. Cleans large drops (4+ ft), big gap jumps, can handle very steep trails and high-consequence lines with good brake control, and complex technical sequences at speed. High commitment, precision, and consequence management. Examples: double-black trails, large sender drops, steep exposed chutes, pro-level bike park lines, major gap jumps.

All bike rentals include helmets if needed.

Of course! While we hope you’ll be able to join us for every meticulously planned ride, we understand if you will have to sit one our. The itineraries on our epic MTB adventures include a whole lot of riding, and one can only dig so deep.

Overview

Welcome to Bellingham, WA — the mountain bike capital of the Pacific Northwest and our backyard. With over 100 miles of world-class singletrack woven through lush rainforest, stunning bay views, steep & rooty tech, and purpose-built flow trails, Bellingham is the ultimate destination for a guided mountain bike tour for all levels.

This all-inclusive 3-day mountain bike vacation explores the best riding Bellingham has to offer. Curated to your group's level and led by our local expert guides, each tour will kick off with the legendary singletrack of Galbraith Mountain. From there, the tour will follow the group's skill level, with options for a day of shuttles and old-growth trees at Chuckanut/Larrabee State Park, and Blanchard Mountain for a backcountry MTB adventure, or Cougar Ridge for an epic ridgeline trail. Each evening we'll return to the comforts of a downtown hotel, craft breweries, and delicious local food.

Example Itinerary

Day 1: Galbraith Mountain

Morning

Your guided mountain bike trip kicks off with a morning meet-and-greet at our downtown Bellingham hotel. From there, we load up and head to the south side of Galbraith Mountain - 80+ miles of singletrack right in our backyard, and one of the premier mountain biking destinations in Washington State and all of North America. Boasting trail options for every level of rider, Galbraith will be the perfect place to get our legs dialed and take in views of Bellingham Bay peeking through the trees.

Your guide will tailor the morning ride to the group - beginners will enjoy smooth flow trails with gentle gradients, while more experienced riders can tackle optional features and technical singletrack sections. By mid-morning we'll have found our rhythm and earned a well-deserved trailside lunch.

Afternoon

After a quick drive to the north entrance to Galbraith, we'll hop back on our bikes, and work our way up to some of Galbraith's signature descents of SST and Mable's - think ripping flow, perfect berms, features for the air-friendly, and that meditative feeling of linking turn after turn through Pacific Northwest rainforest.

We'll wrap up the day with a cold beverage at one of Bellingham's legendary craft breweries before settling in for a communal dinner downtown, where our guides will lay out the plan for Day 2.

12–16 mi  ·  ~1,600–2,500' elev.

Day 2: Chuckanut & Larrabee

Morning

Day two of our Bellingham multi-day mountain bike tour takes us south along the iconic Chuckanut Drive to Larrabee State Park — Washington's very first state park, and home to some of the best singletrack descents in the Pacific Northwest. We'll shuttle to the top wind for a postcard of Bellingham Bay, before descending on the epic Double Black & Double Down Trails.

Suited for advanced riders, these trails offer a ripping 1,600-foot drop on trails that blend flow and chunky tech through ancient forest. For those with experience hitting drops and jumps, there are some rad features built into the natural terrain. This is the kind of mountain biking Washington State is famous for.

Afternoon

After a picnic lunch with ocean views at Larrabee State Park, we'll hop in the van to Lookout Mountain Preserve, where we'll pedal our way up to Cougar Ridge Trail. Cougar offers around 1000' of descending near to a sharp ridgeline in the trees, and plenty of "A lines" to keep the most advanced riders in the group happy.

For the beginner group, instead of Cougar we will instead head back to South Galbraith Mt, where we'll meander through blissful cross-country trails and work on our berms while taking in gorgeous views of Bellingham Bay and Lummi Island.

10–18 mi  ·  ~1,800–2,600' elev.

Day 3: Blanchard Mountain

For Intermediate-Advanced riders, the final day of our guided mountain bike trip features a backcountry adventure on Blanchard Mountain, a 4,500-acre state forest about 20 minutes south of town. We'll climb through dense rainforest surrounded by tall Douglas Fir and Alder trees to reach Lily & Lizard Lakes, a perfect place to rest our legs before a choice between descents such as British Army, Rick Rolled, or even the formidable advanced trail The Horn.

Shuttle option for advanced riders: For those comfortable on extended steeps who want to maximize descending time, we have the option of a full shuttle day at Darrington - a rugged backcountry mountain biking experience with up to 2800' descents per shuttle lap, and all the tech you can dream of.

We'll finish the tour back Bellingham, basking in some post-ride glow before saying our goodbyes. Three days of fully guided singletrack, world-class trails, ocean views, and memories for a lifetime - that's the Bellingham mountain bike experience.

10–25 mi  ·  ~1,800–3000' elev.

Price & Dates

Pricing

  Hotel Tour: $2,750/person

Single occupancy room: +$450

  Rental Bike: $85/day

Deposit to book: $500

What's Included

• Lodging

• Meals

• Transportation

• Dig Deep T-Shirt

• Dig Deep Water Bottle

2026 Dates

May

• May 15–17

• May 22–24

• May 29–30

June

• June 5–6

• June 12–14

July

• July 17–19

• July 24–26

August

• Aug 21–23

• Aug 28–30

September

• Sept 4–6