Miraculous

These are the before and after pictures of my finger I cut with a utility knife at work not too long ago.  It's amazing how the body heals in a matter of 3 weeks.  It really got me this time.

No bike? No ploblem.

My family planned a Park City trip to see some Lego art and celebrate my nephew's birthday at Mcdonald's.  Usually every time I think "Park City", I think, "bike".  That is sometimes a problem for me.  It's all psychology, pretty much all my whole life going to Park City, it has to be mountain bike related.  This weekend when we went, I figured it was too early in the season to bike because I thought there was still snow.  So, I decided to not take my mountain bike.  For the first time!

 But when we got there, I was seeing there were a few places I can still ride, like on the south face low elevation rides.  I think the only trail you can ride in the middle of April is part of Glenwild Trail.  I felt disappointed that I didn't take my bike and there was like three hours of free time when we got there.  But I had fun just relaxing and staying in the motel and shop for a few things anyway.  I bought some hiking shorts and cycling tights at the outlet stores.  The next morning, when everybody was in the motel room after a while, I was getting claustrophobic and I decided to go drive around and see if there were skiers jumping I can watch at the Olympic Park.  But there was no one there, it was dead silent.  Then I drove around for a while and I saw like a group of 100 road cyclists on this back road I was on.  I don't know if they were doing a race or a group ride, but whatever.  It was cool.  Then I decided to do a little walk.  The walk turned out to be a 2 hour hike, I was enjoying myself.  I hiked up on Glenwild Trail and I got a little rain on me and enjoyed being out for a while.  See?  Who needs a bike?  You can always go for a fun hike.  I saw a quite of few bikers on the trail and they looked like they were having fun, but anyways, it was fun hiking too.  I was like trying to tell them, "Hey, hiking is fun too!"  I was trying to get my mind off of bikes, oh well.

Later that day, we went to Mcdonald's and to Kimball Art's Center for a family thing and mostly for my nephew's birthday party.  At the Art center, there were quite a few Lego displays this guy made, they were pretty cool.  Here's a few of my favorites.

I had a good weekend and next time I will take my bike no matter what.  Unless I don't have 3 hours to spare or there's a blizzard out there, or I'd just rather go hiking.

Magnificent Ride

Last weekend, since my older brother and his family were in the Moab area, I decided to go down too.  To do some mountain biking and camp a night.  I left really early that morning and got to Moab around 10:00 AM after 3.5 hours of driving.  It was really nice, beautiful weather.  Up in central Utah where I am from, was really chilly and cloudy but when I got to Moab, it was delightful.

 I was really stoked to go for a ride and I wanted to do a long one since it was a perfect day and I haven't done a ride like in a week.  I decided to do some of the Maginificent Seven.  First, I started at the top and rode down Bull Run with lots of rocks and technical kind of stuff.  It was very fun and all downhill, I enjoyed it so much.  Then I went down on Arth's Corner which was the same as Bull Run and all the other trails I did that day.

After riding on Little Canyon Singletrack, I turned onto Great Escape Trail and met some other bike riders and talked to them for a while.  They were nice.  Great Escape is one of my favorites, I did it before like last year or so.  It had real good climbing and a lot of obstacles to go over.  Also great views!

 Great Escape

 At the end of the Great Escape Trail, I stopped to look at Gemini Bridges.  Then I did a return ride on Getaway Trail which was the least technical trail.  It was more sandy a little faster to ride on because it's been packed down to ride on.  It was a climb all the way up and you know how I like climbing?  Because it gives me an awesome workout.  At the end of Getaway, the ride got technical again.  I was planning to take a shortcut to Seven Up to finish the ride but I was so worn out and it has been about 3 hours.  I drank all of my water and ate all my food by then and I was really tired.  So I took the Gemini Bridges Road back to the trailhead  just to shorten the ride by 2 miles.  I am glad I did that because I probably wouldn't make it up on Seven Up.  I wanted to do part of Seven Up but I got to listen to my body.  Oh well.

According to the map, I did the figure 8 ride and loved it.  It was great riding.  That night, I went to my brother's camp and pitched my tent and had good time with my niece and nephews and sat by the fire under the stars.  Moab always make a good trip.