Starting of Fall 2016

I did my semi annual Four Bay Trails ride.  I like these trails because they are close and good singletrack and no one else there.

 It turned out to be a good ride and the leaves were barely changing.

On General Conference weekend, I went on a drive in the mountains at home and listened to conference on the radio.  This is New Canyon Lake on the picture above.  So pretty with the fall leaves.  Earlier that morning, I did a bike ride in Willow Creek, which was a nice ride but I didn't take any pictures.

Then the next weekend, I did a southern Utah trip down near Bryce, but I didn't go to Bryce, I rode on the Thunder Mountain Trail.

I rode on it before but this time the trail was so much better and more smooth.  It's really nice and I felt good on my ride.

Very good scenery and awesome singletrack!

After Thunder Mountain, my parents and I drove up to Torrey and went through the Escalante way.

It was a very pretty, pleasant drive.

Awesome scenery through Boulder Mountain and so on.

We stayed in Torrey and the next morning, I hiked in Capitol Reef.

I hiked up Fremont Gorge Trail and it was a pretty hike with hardly anybody else there, maybe like 5 other people.

You hike steeply up to here...

....then walk on a flat part that goes on forever, which was pretty boring.

Then it gets better when you hike uphill again to this point when you see this gorge...

....and turn around, and see this, what a view!

After I got back down the bottom, I hiked on Fremont River Trail.  It goes along a river for awhile, then you start climbing back up the mountain again.

The top of this climbing section.

Pretty nice.

The bottom again with the fruit trees after the hike.

2016 Summer Happenings 3: Summer is over version

I did the Mayfield White Hills again which I call it the "White Hill Rollers Ride".  It's always fun and I never ever see another soul.

I did a hike up at College Mountain just above Ephraim one night after work.

I hiked up the Race Loop uphill road all the way to the dead end and then continued along this other road I've never been on before.  I hiked up then turned around and went back down the mountain.

There it is, the dog water bottle I saw on the internet one day.  It works really well when there are no streams around for Duke.  He really likes to drink from it especially when he is thirsty.  It is really worth the 20 bucks and very easy to carry.  Really, Duke should carry it himself, there's got to be some way!

Another sunset picture from another hike.

On one of my rides, I got bitten by a dog.  It's the same dog that has been chasing me all summer long and he was getting closer every time.  Then this time, he snapped.  Everyone thought I should report it,  I really didn't want to because I have a misbehaved dog too but people tell me that you should report dog bites.  So the dog owner got a warning and the dog was quarantined for 10 days.  On the last few rides, I haven't seen the dog out on the road anymore.

On Labor Day weekend, I went up to my sister's house to visit, then biked up at Snowbasin.  I biked on the same trails I used to do during the Intermountain Cup Races a few years ago.  It was a good ride.

Pretty, but a lot of fun rocks to ride over!

I did Snowbasin Trail, Green Pond, Last Chance, and down the Needles Trail.

After Snowbasin, I completed my spring and summer bucket list I made last winter.  I crossed all of them except for two, Redwoods and Nine Mile Canyon.  I'll do those later for sure.  But I did pretty good though.

Down west of Ephraim is a so much desolate place and I rode on this dirt road that goes along by Gunnison Reservoir and the backroad towards Ephraim and a little bit up Dry Canyon.  I did about 38 miles that day and it was on Labor Day after I got home from Clinton, UT.

Since Summer is over, this is my goal for this Fall, less politics and more pedaling.  I have always hated politics and never liked to hear about it especially on the media and Facebook.  It drives me nuts, I just go for a ride whenever it does drives me nuts.  It's all everybody talks about these days and they always freak out and talk about it like it's the end of the world.  I just want to say, "Go ride your damn bike!"

Since politics is not in my mind, and it's official, I am resigning from adulthood!

This was the exact last day of Summer of 2016, I went up to ride in the canyon and rode a little bit of the Flume Trail(which is in terrible condition, so I rode just the top part), then down Hydroplant and Deer Run trails.

And I am really looking forward some time off this Christmas.  Since I am resigning from adulthood, I am actually looking forward to Christmas.

2016 Summer Happenings 2- Summer is almost over version

When visiting family in Ogden area, I got to ride on the funnest trail ever.

It is called, Britain's Ribbon and Brim Trail, and Hidden Trail.  Talk about pure blast.  Very nice singletrack and spectacular scenery.

These meadows are usually covered with flowers during June and July, I guess I missed it.

There's a really cool paper airplane metal sculpture on the trail but you have to either hike or ride a bike to it and that's my favorite part of the ride.

These trails were barely built and they are already getting ridden on a lot.  Because these are fun.  It's probably my favorite ride in Northern Utah.  It is located in Powder Mountain Ski Resort.

I did ride around 18 miles with 1,800 feet elevation gain.  Sweet ride.

My little sister got married so I built this wedding arbor for her.

She and her husband got married under it and now I have to take it up to their new backyard and set it up.  Another excuse to go up to Ogden to ride my bike!

I did my Skyline ride again this summer and it may be the last time for this year.  It's going to start get cold up there now.

Looking down on Manti Canyon.  It was a great view to end my ride with a climb to it.

I rode from the GBEEC on the canyon road past Bluebell and Fred's Flat.  After that, I rode on Philadelphia Flat and climbed from there to Middle Mountain and to the view.  I love this ride...one of my favorites near home.

Very spectacular high mountain scenery and nice air with beautiful green grass and trees.  And lot's of wild flowers!

I had family to come to my little sister's wedding and we all went to the mountains to have a picnic one day.  It was a very nice thing to do on a Sunday.  My older sister and her husband were there.  They didn't like the dry air here, because they were so used to the humidity in North Carolina.

I got close to a 3 or 4 point buck and took a picture.  He was eating some mountain berries.

My mom feeding the ducks.  We all had fun.

Another picture of the buck.

This past week, I haven't been feeling like riding my bike, so I didn't ride.  But I did go on a hike in Maple Canyon again during the weekend.

This time, my dog and I hiked up Left Fork Trail.  I never hiked up Left Fork Trail to the top before so this time I did.  It's a cool hike with no one around.  I loved it.  And it was a tough climb all the way to the top.

Some cool rock formations.

After hiking Left Fork, we hiked up the Middle Fork to the arch.  I haven't been to the arch in so long, but it was cool to see it again.

Duke loves to hike.  And I got him a cool water bottle just for him.  I need to take a picture of it sometime.  It has a little dish bowl at the spout, cool.

Later that night, I went to Yuba to see my brothers and their families.  We swam at the beach and I brought my canoe.  Nobody canoed that night but they did the next morning.  So I stayed the night.

A typical Utah beach: not at an ocean, no Marriott motel next to it, no waves...instead, it's at a lake, the water is super cold, you can camp right next to it and have campfires, you can have dogs, dirt bikes, canoes, water ski boats, and there's a herd of cows next to it.  So, that's the Utah beach compared to the east coast beach.