Fall Rides 2016

Here's one of my dusk rides after work.  Here I was just sprinting around town and took this lovely picture.  Now it's time change and it's going to be dark when I get home from work now.  Now I have to wait until March 2017 to ride after work again.  I'm not looking forward to it, but thank goodness it'll be cold out.

One weekend, which was UEA weekend, I did a road bike ride since all of the hunters were in the mountains.  I rode from Elsinore to Big Rock Candy Mountain and back, then rode to Richfield and back after that.

It was a nice bike path all the way on my ride which was very awesome.

I wish Sanpete County has bike paths, it would be really nice to not ride on the highways.  That is why I don't road bike much.  But I do love mountain biking more though.

I did a total of 50 miles that day.  It was a good ride and a nice day.

The following evening, I took Jeri and Duke on a walk on the top of the Flume.  They loved the nice walk.  Lot's of hunters out there.

One morning, it was a nice foggy morning and I took some pictures around work.

The cabinet shop is located on a small cattle farm.

Bella

My boss got a Border Collie puppy and this was the first time I saw her.  She is really cute.

Another weekend I went on a short Moab trip.  At first, on Friday, my mom and I traveled to Green River, where we stayed, then we went to the John Wesley Powell Museum.  It was really cool and I thought the movie was fantastic.  It won some awards too.

The next morning, we went to Moab and I did my bike ride while my mom went to Dead Horse Point.

I rode up on Chisholm Trail, which was a very gentle climb with lots of technical obstacles to go over but not too hard.

Then I turned around at the end of Chisholm and backtracked.

At the end, I rode at Rocky Tops area and it was all mostly slickrock but had a bunch more people on these trails.

At the end, a nice view.  On the way home, we picked up some Green River melons (THE BEST).

I went on a Sunday walk on the day after at home and this is what I ran into.  A sign that said,
"Future site of toll booth".  I thought it was real for a moment but it turned out later in the week that the local paper said it was a prank.  That 's good.  But I did hear that the canyon road will be paved until Willow Creek.  That's just a rumor.  But if it's true, I might have to get out my road bike to ride up it.

Then this weekend, I did another road bike ride down near Sevier, which is down by Big Rock Candy Mountain.  I wanted to ride up Clear Creek Canyon for a while, so I did.

It was a gentle climb passing Fremont Indian State Park Museum and through these cliffs.

So cool.

At the end of the climb, it got steeper and harder and it really pushed me.  It ended at the I-70 entrance.

I then turned around and just cruised downhill for 13 miles back to the trailhead in Sevier.

It was a nice 30 mile ride and I saw only 5 cars that passed by, and yes, I counted.  It was really nice and I won't be surprised that I would be doing this ride again.  Because it's a fun climb (and kind of easy) and no people at all.  And the scenery is very good.

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.