Water pockets reflecting the clouds on our favorite mountain bike trail, Navajo Rocks.
Here’s a little factoid: There are five counties in Utah where Mormons are in the minority: San Juan, Carbon, surprisingly Salt Lake, Summit, home to Park City, and Grand, home to Moab which makes perfect sense to me.
Our friends Chrissy, Mike, and Marlene joined us. We spent three nights at Utah’s newest state park, Utahraptor and five nights up on the mesa at our favorite BLM primitive pit toilet campground, Horsethief.
Just like last year, we had some crazy wind and rain. I guess we should start expecting it. We finally rode Capt. Ahab. Never again! It was hellish. Overall, there were no mechanicals, no injuries, and just a little blood, so all in all it was a successful six days of riding with one hike thrown in.
I hope you can view the pictures on something other than a phone. I don’t mind saying so myself, some of them are amazing.
Utahraptor, site 303. They did a great job developing this campground…pull throughs, water and power, and tons of room between sites. In the evening when the lighting was just right you could see Turret Arch and the North and South Windows at Arches National Park.
A dark period in American history. There were three Citizen Isolation Areas. Moab was the first. This is where they put the so called “troublemakers” from the internment camps.
Chrissy, Amelia, and Marlene all giddy for the first ride.
Chrissy following Amelia on one of the Klondike Trails.
Marlene all smiles
Perfect form by Amelia
Mike and Marlene reflection
A Great Basin Gopher Snake slithered through our campsite for a sip of water.
Apparently they don’t want you crapping in the desert anymore.
Morning at Utahraptor
Harvest moon at Utahraptor
Site #46 at Horsethief Campground, same site as last year!
Chrissy on Rodeo, one of the trails right from the campground.
Mike climbing the incredible rock.
San Diego riding partners
Mike and Chrissy
A little too much for this old guy. Marlene and Amelia are better technical riders than me, but the double black diamond rating had them doing a lot of hike a bike. Mike nearly rode all of it! Chrissy was smart and didn’t ride it! The views were amazing, I’ll give it that.
Capt. Ahab
You can only ride so many days in a row. After one of the big rain nights we hiked the West Rim at Dead Horse Point State Park. It was awe inspiring.
Walking along the edge
The clouds were drifting up from the bottom and changing by the minute.
It truly was one of those hikes we won’t ever forget.
Heart shaped water pocket
I really dig the reflections.
Rising clouds
It was an amazing five mile hike.
Spectacular
We timed it well, this is the end of the hike.
Our first Navajo Rocks ride it started raining hard so we aborted. On Saturday we went back and rode the half we missed.
Beautiful ridable rock
I’m running out adjectives to describe the beauty and enendorphins from being this close to the rock wall.
Mike and Chrissy dwarfed by the rock.
Adios Moab, see you in April when we do the White Rim Trail!
Ok, right now I only have access to my phone but will relook at the post when we get home later today. From what I just saw, you got some great shots as you always do. Looks like a fun and successful trip!
The trip is still continuing😊.
Beautiful photos! Looks like a great trip!
So far it has been terrific! I’m looking forward to hearing about South Dakota. Safe travels