Great Escape

 Whoever made all these new bike trails should get the Pultzer's Prize!  Seriously!  Now I love Moab riding.  The next day after I did the Klondike Bluffs riding area, I decided to drive up to Dead Horse Point Highway and then go down Jim and I Bridges(Gemini Bridges, I call it "Jim and I") Road then park at Jim and I Bridges parking and then start on a brand new trail called Great Escape.  I wasn't in the mood for another big ride like what I did the day before, so I did the 7.5 mile Great Escape Loop.

 Starting of the Great Escape

"Jim and I" Bridges below

 After Great Escape, I go northwest on Little Canyon Singletrack and Arth's Corner Trail to finish the ride.  It was fun and technical but not as technical as EKG I did yesterday!  It was a great ride and loved the scenery especially when I did this ride like at 9 in the morning before all the crowds came.  It was beautiful.

There are many trails from Gemini Bridges turnoff at the top that go down all the way to Portal Trail near Moab.  These series of trails are called the Magnificant 7.  They are all 27 miles long and someday I want to try them.  It goes through Gold Bar Rim.  There's a new trail in that area called Gold Bar Singletrack.  You do ride a little bit of the jeep trails to make the ride but it's mostly fun, technical singletrack for mtbers. 

Arth's Corner

Klondike Bluffs Ride

 I remember back in the day when Moab mountain biking was all just jeep roads and the famous Slickrock Trail.  Now in the past five years, at least 5 new mountain bikes only trails were built each year(I am not sure, but it seems like it).  I found out about most of them and wanted to give them a shot.  This area I tried is the Klondike Bluffs Riding Area, it consists many singletrack trails instead of just the Klondike Bluffs Road.  This place made me more excited about the area. 

 At first I did the Dino Flow Trail, then Baby Steps Trail which most of it was dirt and maybe 35% of it was slickrock.  It was great fun and it was all climbing to the top.  I had a good climb.

 Dino Flow Trail

 Baby Steps

 Baby Steps Slickrock

 After I did Baby Steps, I went on a brand new trail that was just barely built this year, called UFO.  More climbing and singletrack fun.

 UFO had a few Switchbacks also.  After UFO, I went downhill on a technical Little Salty Trail then Dino Flow then the hardest part EKG!  EKG is pure fun and all slickrock with a bunch of tricky sections.  At the bottom, I went on Dino Flow all the way to the north end side, the went southward on EKG, I bailed out down Little Salty and finished the ride south on Dino Flow back to the car.  The ride took me around 3 hours and I think it was a total of 22 miles!  I was beat.

I don't know when I will go again but maybe when I want to go another fun, hard ride.

The San Rafael Swell Bike Trip(Devil's Racetrack)

My older brother invited me to San Rafael Swell on Easter Weekend. His family rides dirt bikes and do a lot of camping. I've heard of Devil's Racetrack trail before and thought that would be a fun trail to ride on my mountain bike. When I got there, my brother and his family has ridden Devil's Racetrack and told me I was crazy to ride on it on a pedal bike and thought it was too technical for it. I didn't listen to them and decided to go ahead and do it since the trail is right by the campsite. Devil's Racetrack is primarly an atv trail and I went out and back because most other trails in that area were too

sandy and I can't ride in sand. So I (walked) to the trailhead about a mile from the car which was very sandy. Then from the trailhead is all fast to the bone! It was downhill all the way to the wash which was about 10 miles or so and it was a fun, fast, technical ride. There were some parts I walked on like in the middle of the trail and was the most technical and hardest section of the trail.

The scenery was beautiful and the weather was perfect. What more is there to ask? It was great. It was cold at first because I started early in the day and when I started heading back uphill, I got really warmed up.

I found my brother's buggy his wife was riding on out there, way out there, like 8 miles out just before all the technical stuff. They did the big 50 mile loop on the day before. The wheel broke off the buggy and they were on like the last 8 miles of the trail, and that last 8 miles was all the hard stuff. So they left it out there and had a rough time carrying all the kids on their motorbikes but made it. Then it took my brother a lot trips and a trip to the city of Green River to get the part fixed and finally got the buggy back to camp. I'm glad!

This is about where I turned around, well, a little past that, almost to the wash. It was a good technical climb back to the beginning. It was a fun bike ride.

The next day, I decided to go on another trail, Eagle Canyon Trail. It is also another atv trail but way easier, no rocks, and quite a bit of sand down at the wash. I'd rather ride on rocks than sand though so maybe this is a harder trail because I can't ride on sand! I started from Swasey's Cabin and went down the trail and I wanted to get to the I-70 bridges and then ride back. It didn't take long but the ride back was all a climb back. It was fun.

When I got the I-70 bridge, it was pretty cool. All of my life, I've wanted to see the I-70 bridge from down below and people around where I live have told me that there is a trail that goes under the bridges. Anyway, it was awesome how they built them. There were a lot of broken tvs down below. One day, somebody is going to get hit by one, ha ha!

Anyway, it was a great trip and I'd do Devil's Racetrack on my bike again! The scenery was awesome.