Road Trip 2007 - Moab/Fruita/Gunnison

[Jozz]

Here are some pics of our spring trip in Moab/Fruita and Gunnison

For once its not just Karine and me on vacation... We were able to drag two other member of the Crazy Fast French Canadians!

We drove down from Montreal straight to Moab in 3 days... long drive but well worth it!

On with some pics!

The crew on Sovereing Singletrack

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Small drop at the start of Amasa Back

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Bigger drop on Porcupine Rim

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Evil flies off a rock ledge on Porcupine Rim

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Karine climbing Slickrock

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Myself on Horsethief Bench

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Technical section on Steve's Loop

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Full throttle on Kessel Run!

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Karine hanging on Frontside

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Sunset at Dead Horse Point State Park

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Some statistics: 14 rides - 234 miles - 31,646 feets (vertical gain)


For some french complete description of our rides and some GPS files, and the most important... LOTS MORE PICTURES!
Go see our Blog at http://bikeblog.canalblog.com (http://bikeblog.canalblog.com/archives/road_trip_2007/index.html)

[TreeSaw]

:thumb: The pic of Karine on Frontside is great!!!

[MtnBikerChk]

Very COOL JOZZ!

[Echo]

DAMN I need to get out there :rant:

[MMcG]

Awesome shots Jozz!!! Thanks for sharing with us Monkeys! :thumb:

[bluebug32]

:thumb: :thumb:

[Jozz]

Glad you all enjoyed!

Eventually they will be more of our previous trip added to the blog.

[highrevs]

Glad you all enjoyed!


For sure! I need to make a trip out west to ride my bike. The terrain looks very inviting...

[SkaredShtles]

Great TR Jozz. Thanks for sharing your experience.

Nice pics of Hartman's Rocks. That's such a fun little local area to ride. :thumb:

[manhattanprjkt83]

it's great knowing the trails that you are riding there...that drop on porcy is a bit bigger than it looks in the pic, is that the upper one or the lower...there are a couple right in that area...

[manhattanprjkt83]

wow just saw you came from Montreal...our first time out there we drove straight from pittsburgh pa 30 hours with almost no stops 1 eating stop and rode our brains out on porcy the next day.

[brungeman]

nice Jozz!

saweet pics!

[remdog]

thoose areas have some of the sickest trails

[Jimmy Chipwood]

Funny, we just did the exact same trip from southern Ontario! We added on a few rides in the butte though. The higher elevation rides were closed but even the lower rides are sooooooo good.

Nowhere like the butte!

[Jozz]

Yeah Crested Butte is awsome! We did some of the village trails in 2003, but we were there for the 401 and it was just spectacular!!

[Jimmy Chipwood]

Nice photo! Is that deer creek? Deer creek is actually one of the few well known rides I have not yet ridden in Crested Butte. If you ever have the chance check out Doctors park and Reno Flag Bear Deadmans. If you want to make it epic, combine the two!

Happy trails, Dylan

[SkaredShtles]

Nice photo! Is that deer creek? Deer creek is actually one of the few well known rides I have not yet ridden in Crested Butte. If you ever have the chance check out Doctors park and Reno Flag Bear Deadmans. If you want to make it epic, combine the two!

Happy trails, Dylan
We did an epic a few years back combining a road ride from Cement Creek back into the Butte, then up to do Upper/Upper-Upper, 409, Reno-Flag-Bear-Dead. We were a couple miles short of 50... :thumb:

[Jimmy Chipwood]

Thats a cool combo,.. I bet it felt like 150 miles though!

That would have to be close to 7000ft gain, nice work man.

[splat]

How did I miss this thread before this ?? those are awesome shots Jozz!

[SkaredShtles]

Thats a cool combo,.. I bet it felt like 150 miles though!

That would have to be close to 7000ft gain, nice work man.
Actually we would've gotten more than 50 miles in and the 7000 feet, but one of our party decided to bail at the bottom of the Reno Ridge climb.... where we had conveniently stashed the car.... so he shuttled us to the top of Reno. :D

[Jimmy Chipwood]

All the fresher for those blazing fast downhills! I took a group of coloradans up there last summer after they were trying to talk me into doing Teo. Lets just say they didn't regret it. When the bear creek descent is in nice shape it is definitely one of the most fun stetches of trail I have ever ridden!

Good times

[SkaredShtles]

All the fresher for those blazing fast downhills! I took a group of coloradans up there last summer after they were trying to talk me into doing Teo. Lets just say they didn't regret it. When the bear creek descent is in nice shape it is definitely one of the most fun stetches of trail I have ever ridden!
When we rode it the motos had fuskered up Flag pretty good. :(

The descent to Bear was $$, though. As was Deadman's. :thumb:

Perhaps a few photos (http://home.comcast.net/~elan_mbx/Butte04/)are in order.

[Jimmy Chipwood]

Nice photos, when I get better at this computer thingy I will post some of mine. Are you heading there at all this year? I will be there the first 2 weeks of Sept.

Should be prime!

[mcanull]

Awesome. Moab is much fun.

[SkaredShtles]

Nice photos, when I get better at this computer thingy I will post some of mine. Are you heading there at all this year? I will be there the first 2 weeks of Sept.

Should be prime!
I'm going to go the weekend after the 4th of July. I've got relatives that live north of the G-Spot. We try to visit them somewhat frequently... dunno if I'm going to get to ride, though, what with the gimpy ankle and all.