Nov 16th - Moab

Sunday we woke up looking forward to a quick ride before having to head home again. We opted to go with a easy choice - Porcupine again.


The dogs were playing in the morning as well.


One of the old faithful Coyote shuttles. These guys are laid back and fun at all times.


We passed a few people but never saw anyone from our shuttle again which sorta surprised us as we were stopping to take photos on a regular basis.


Fun little obstacles with amazing backdrop views.


UPS has to be one of my favorite trail sections that we have easy access to.


And they say that Moab doesn't have single track. Over the past few years the amount of easily located and rideable single track around Moab seems to be growing happily and constantly.


Lot's options to play on and around.


Amber was riding steep terrain really well this past weekend.



Once we joined the main Porcupine trail we decided to drop down the Porcupine climb as we have never done it and thought it might get us back to our car a little faster and easier. Riding back to town was probably about close to the same time as if we had continued down Porcupine but it it was definitely fun racing down Porcupine.

Nov 15th - Moab

We picked up a new bike rack for the FJ so the only option was to load the bikes on and head to the desert to take advantage of the incredible weather that the region has been having recently. We drove out Friday night and then slept in saturday morning before heading out to explore a trail we hadn't been on before.


The dogs were happy to be in the desert as well.


Slick rock in the middle of nowhere.


Happy dog leading Amber along.


Single track in the middle of nowhere


After some lunch and a beer at the Moab Brewery we headed out again and trotted up to Slick Rock to play before it got to dark.

Amber cruising the steep exposed switch back in the first section.


Happy face.


Slick rock is steep up and steep down.


On the way back the light was starting to get very pretty on all the Slick Rock.


And the shadows were getting long.


Another fun day in the Desert.

Oct 25th - 26th - Moab

We went to Moab and this time we did a self shuttle where Amber dropped me at the trail head for Burro Pass.

Wow, the The Whole Enchilada is brutally hard on your body. 5 hours of constant riding with a tough climb to start. 29 miles total and about 22 miles of that is descending. Lots of fun, lots of riding, very sore body at the end of the ride.

Sunday we got up and shuttled Porcupine again, this time both of us via a Coyote shuttle.

Riding downhill things is fun.

Oct 11th - 12th - Moab

Again still no camera but we headed to Moab to kick-off the desert riding season. I had a pretty bad cold so we started with a self shuttle of Porcupine from the Kokopelli drop. Amber went first and we timed her run as 2hrs 14mins. I went next but this time started from the Hazard County drop. My time from Kokopelli was 2hrs 4mins and there was about another 15minutes of great riding above it in the Hazard Section.

On Sunday we both took a pay for shuttle to the Hazard drop. We were both pretty tired from riding hard the previous day so we just took it easy and enoyed a relaxing romp down Porcupine from Hazard.

Sept 29th - Sol Vista Closing

Really out of date on keeping the Blog up to date. We lost our Camera for quite a while there so our weekends were without photo's.

This was the close for Sol Vista and it was very fun times seeing many of the people we raced with over the Summer. We took it easy just doing runs down things we had done plenty of times before. I had picked up a DMC moto trainer so I was getting some base times to be able to compare to next year. Sadly I was lazy with updating the blog so I have already forgotten them.

Anyway, a great way to wrap the Downhill Season.