Thursday, November 1, 2012

Dreamin' on Pipe Dream Trail


This sign said the trail is for advanced riders, expert only, yep, they were right!  It was a lot of fun too!  I did the Pipe Dream Trail on the day after I did Bull run.  This. Trail. Is. Hard.  It is located just south and above Moab and I can see riders like to get riding on this right from town.  It is a great technical trail

 Going under a boulder.
 I loved the switchbacks on this trail.  Fun!  Also with lot's of boulders to go over and steep side sections.  Lot's of up and down riding with 1,000 vertical feet of total climbing.

There's a biker down there.  Yeah, she passed me and we were talking about how fun the trail was.

 This a hard section, fun but ridable.
I was going to do an out and back which was 10 miles total but my hands were too fatigue from a lot of braking.  So I did a loop by doing a return on the Pipeline Road.  I liked this trail because it was challenging.

Biking with the Bulls on Bull Run Trail

 This was a really nice, fun trail with a bunch of sweetness added to it!  That's all I can say!

 A lot of this had slickrock and dirt variation kind of trail.

 I don't why I keep taking pictures of the easy parts of the trail, so this is not most of it.  There were a lot of sections, with boulders, slickrock, drops, and with gnarly climbs.
 Went down for a nice trip to Moab, my parents came along.  It was very nice, perfect weather and that's what made the trip more enjoyable.  It was a 5 mile trail and I did it out and back with a total of 10 miles.  The Bull Run is the first part of the Mag 7 Trail series.  They say the Bull Run is the funnest part of the Mag 7.  I agreed, it was a fun section and I had a blast.  I started From Gemini Bridges and went uphill with about 1,000 vertical feet of climbing, then I went back down with a fun downhill. 
 There were some cliff side riding and lots of fun boulders to go over.

I turned around here at the top.  The continous trail was 7 Up and I wanted to go more on it but I turned around because it was getting dark.  Next time, I will make sure I have more time to ride.

Horseshoe Canyon Hike

 On UEA weekend, the Tony family invited us to go see some pictographs in Horseshoe Canyon located in Canyonlands National Park.  The hike was around 7 miles out and back.  It goes down into a sweet looking canyon with pictographs in most areas.
 Brayden checking them out.
 This one means "Holy Ghost"  and this one is very big.
 Most of the hike was on a sandy wash and was fun to walk on it through the canyon.  The hike up back from down the canyon was a 700 vertical foot climb and was it a good workout.  The hike took about 5 hours.  It was great fun!  My parents came but they only hiked a couple miles.  We still had fun.  We had Stan's Burgers in Hanksville afterwards.
 More pictographs.
 Tony and Hannah walking.
 Hannah.
 It was great to hike and see this stuff!
This guy stole my nephew's trail mix while we were sitting looking at some pictographs, now I got a picture of him and I can report it.  Ha ha.  Well, we were taking about he probably needed it worse than we did.