We’re back! It was a super week of bikepacking. Talk about fortunate, southern Utah has terrain of all sorts. Incredible terrain at every fork in the trail. And with those forks come a few epic moments. We started out heading N from the Paunsaugunt area. It was all new to us. We were loaded and […]
Category Archives: Exploratories
GL SS training
May 29th a group of us will be heading out on a Grand Loop mission. I’ve done this route before, so to make it more challenging this time around I’ll have just one gear. This route is hard enough that success rate is something south of 40% for those that attempt it – and it […]
TU Splorin’ Resumes
It’s a never ending quest to get from StG to the Markagunt by dirt. Instead of looking South into the AZ strip, I’ve been looking at NW of town. This is a rugged, remote, complex region of volcanic mountains, green valleys and even a few lakes. Subtly soft in places, brutally hard in others. Much of […]
Trans Utah V3.0
Trans Utah is getting an upgrade. Based on last years running, and the fact that nobody has completed the course yet, here’s where it’s headed: – Route. Marshal’s experience in particular up Kolob road was not at all what I had in mind when designing the route. Kolob road is getting the ax. Seeing how […]
Paunsaugunt sploring
This weekend we headed over to the Paunsaugunt for more sploring. Wow, double decker wow! The scenery was unmatched, trails amazing and weather ride perfect. The main target was to ride a bunch of the Grandview trail and find a more interesting route up onto the plateau than Proctor Canyon. Finding reliable info on the […]
Trans Usploring again
We took the Trans Utah route exploring up to one of my fav summer jaunts this weekend. The Virgin River Rim Trail. This is one of my special places on the Markagunt plateau. The single track here is blissful. Sweetest water on earth right here… and the views off the rim massive Makes me want to do […]
New toy for this boy
Siren Mary, Brendan, and Matt stopped by for a bit yesterday. They are on their way to Banff for Mary’s start to Tour Divide. Mary looks so good!!! Calm, strong, witty, she’s in a great space leading to this most epic of epics. We talked strategy and equipment…they even pulled her bike off the car […]
Overnight in the flowers
More fun on bikes this weekend in the million acres of the Grand Canyon Parashant National Monument. This time we drove the 30 miles south from St George to the border of the park and started riding from there. We also took overnight gear. This was my first bike-packing adventure. I’m not sure how much […]