Eagle Point Biking

Yesterday, I went up for a ride south from where I live.  Eagle Point Ski Resort is in the Tushar Mountains near Beaver, UT.  It's basically one of my favorite places to ride.

I rode there last year when the trails were barely built and they were built by Alpine Trails which is a very good trail building company.  They did a lot of trails in Park City and everywhere.  I really like these new trails in Eagle Point, they're short, but all you have to do is ride laps.

I saw one other biker there and a few hikers.  There was also a big bike race event going on in the Tushar Mountains called Crusher in the Tushars.  It's a big dirt road/paved bike race with a lot of climbing(10,000 feet total gain).  The race ended at Eagle Point, so I kind of watched the racers finished.  Levi Leipheimer won the race so there were some big names in the race and I also had a couple of friends who did it.

I love these trails in Eagle Point and it's up high so it's really nice and cool for those summer days.  I climbed from the bottom and up on Eagle's Egress Mountain Trail then did two laps on the Monarch Mountain Loop up on top then went back done on Eagle's Egress.  The views were amazing and it's a nice, quiet place to be and also if you want to get away from the crowds in the Park City bike trails, this is where you want to go.

North/South Carolina Trip

At the end of June, I went to see my sister and her family in North Carolina.  We were there for a week and while we were there, we did a lot of things.  At first, I wasn't planning to ride a bike at by my sister's place like what I usually do.  I didn't want to go through all that trouble taking my bike stuff and renting a bike because there wasn't much time and I didn't want my older sister running me all over the place.  Well, I ended up using my brother-in-law's old bike and buying a cheap helmet at a bike shop.  The bike is a 1992 Nishiki Alien mountain bike and it still pedals good.

The roads are great by my sister's house, they are so much funner than the roads in Utah which are more boring.  North Carolina roads are more windy and hilly.  I didn't take my Garmin bike computer and I wish I did so I would know how long I went.  But I figured it out on Google maps and it turned out to be 17 miles on the route I like and I rode it 3 times on different days the whole time I was there.  It was very humid but still very fun.

Also, while being there, my sister took us to Hilton Head Island in South Carolina which was a nice place.  Of course, instead of sitting on the beach, I rented a cruiser beach bike from the motel we were staying in.  Hilton Head Island beaches allowed people to ride bikes on the beach so that's what I did.

There were a lot of bike pathways on Hilton Head Island also, so I rode all over them all day while we were there.  I got about 5 hours of beach cruisin'.  We ate at a lot of good places and my favorite was crab at Crazy Crab restaurant.  Such good crab, mmmmm.

After the beach, we stopped in Charleston, which I've never been to.  We saw a lot of old houses and Civil War stuff.

In Charleston with the girls.  We just walked around.

We ate at a fancy restaurant called, Poogan's Porch.  Named after a dog that looked like Speedy that sat on this very porch.  Pretty awesome.

We also have got to visit Fort Sumter which my mom really wanted to see.  It was really neat, it was way out there in the water and we took a ferry ride to it.

Fort Sumter is where the Civil War first started and it was pretty cool to see all the stuff.

It was a fun trip even though I got to do a lot of biking.  It was fun to see my sister and her family.  They are doing really great and my brother-in-law is a dentist and gave me a free visit.  So I got a cavity and got that fixed and another tooth fixed so it was basically a free trip to me because the dentist visit is pretty much the same price as my plane ticket.  Maybe I will not take care of my teeth anymore so I can go to North Carolina more, ha ha, just kidding.  I will still try to take care of my teeth. I hope.