So, we've been looking forward to Moab for quite a while, but mostly for our canoe trip and doing a LOT of mountain biking. The canoe trip was awesome. The mountain biking, we've only been able to do two rides and both of them were so-so.You basically ride on huge sandstone hills, which has a really fun feeling under your tires, but the shape of the rock also makes it so that you descend at a sharp slope and then you have to climb steep slopes. We love the descent part, it's the vertical climbing where you lose momentum and then have to un-clip from your pedals and hop off the bike before falling over only to then have to hike the bike up the climb get back on and then ride to the next climb where you jump off again.. wash, rinse, repeat. We decided that we'd probably like it a lot better if we were in much better shape and slightly more skilled. We're most likely going to do a trail called the Porcupine Rim Trail that's mostly downhill. Although, I'll admit that 'primo downhill advanced technical stuff, dropping off a gazillion small rocky ledges, with the last 3 miles a hairy single-track on the edge of deadly cliffs' kind of scares me.
Today we rode the practice loop for the most famous of Moab trails, the Slickrock trail. It was 2 miles of me frowning and complaining about how, 'I thought this was going to be different' and 'I think I like the trails back in California better,' oh and a few times I think I cried a little out of frustration. Oh well. We're lucky that Moab also has so many other things to do and see.
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