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.