One weekend when my parents went away to do some grandkid sitting, I was left home alone. I was going to go up with them thinking I can take my bike with me and do some biking where they were going to be which was Antelope Island. I called the people at Antelope Island and they said the trails there were still muddy. So I stayed home anyway. That Friday night, I felt like going someplace for the weekend to bike where there was no snow or mud. I browsed all through the internet and found about Price which was right over the other side my mountain, it still was a 2 hour drive though, but less than Moab or St. George, even Antelope Island. Like places with low elevations and desert environment.
When I got there at the trailhead, the weather was decent and good enough for jacket weather. Later on, I was in shorts and a thermal jersey, it was perfect weather. The trails I did was Luke's and S'mo Joes. They were awesome trails. They looked like they weren't ridden much because of early of the year. I think all the snow just barely melted off like a week before. These trails had a lot of turns and twists and this system of trails reminded me a lot of a trail I used to love in Farmington, NM. They both have trails on a mesa and goes in a loop like this. The trail in New Mexico was the Road Apple Trail.
At halfway of the loop, at the top, was a fork out of some more trails that go further north, I guess I've read that they are awesome too and adds like 1,500 of vertical climbing. There were no tracks at all on these trails, so I figured don't do them yet and wait like a few weeks later after a few people have ridden them so I would know where I would go.
The total miles in the loop was like around 8 or 9 miles, when I got back to the trailhead, I wanted to do more. So I did Luke's again and did it an out and back, and also rode Alan's Alley. So the total miles I did that was 15 miles. It was a blast. I am planning to go back again and do this loop plus the northern trails, since it's so close to where I live.
Here's a sweet map of all the mountain bike trails near Price.
2 comments:
Looks like some pretty good trails.
Yeah, I bet there are some dirt bike trails somewhere you need to find. It looks like the kind of place that should have some good dirt biking. These trails I did were great but they are non motorized.
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