Just a heads up for anyone riding up north. Rist Canyon is a little deceiving right now. It pretty clean with just few random spots of very light sand until you get to about two miles from the top of the foothill/mountain (whatever you want to call it) then just as you come around a corner, out of seemingly nowhere, it turns into a freaking sand pit and that last 1 1/2 to 2 miles before the top (where it is most twisty) is literaly completely covered in sand and gravel.
Once you are over the top though it goes back to being pretty clean for the most part.
- Kory