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Originally Posted by bike21  Inspiration struck me reading Mad Doggy Dog's thread from Antigua (great post btw!) to post some fun riding pics. It was my buddy's 30th birthday this past weekend, so we headed out to Fruita, Colorado for some camping, cheap beer consumption and lots of good riding.  |
Awesome Bike21!
Fruita is great place to ride.
Last time I was there, a tree jumped out in front of me and clocked me pretty good.
Looks like you were riding the BLM land north of town along the Bookshelf mts?
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Married life of a mountain biker true story snippet:
Me: Honey, I am going on a mountain bike safari for 3 weeks. I am going to ride near DEN, COS, Fuita, Aspen, Crested Butte, Moab, Wasatch front, and Park City. Can you go for part of that?
her: Probably not, have fun.
This conversation was repeated numerous times in the months leading to departure in late September 02.
So the day before I was to leave and was loading up the SUV, my wife says, "what are you doing....are you going somewhere?"
Me: Uh, yeah! I'm leaving for my 3 week mountain bike safari.
Her: You didn't tell me about that! You can't just go away for 3 weeks....what about me?
Me: I mentioned it about 20 times. You said it was OK.
Her: No I didn't
Me: Yes you did
Her: No I didn't
Me: Yes you did
Her: No I didn't
Me: Yes you did
Her: Who are you going with?
Me: Nobody.
Her: Why?
Me: Because I can.
Then I said, "Look, I want you to go. How about you fly out to SLC next week and I''ll get a nice hotel in Park City and we will ride The Canyons or Deer Valley."
Her: OK.
So I drove 15 hours from Dallas to Evergreen, Colorado the 1st day. Rode there the next day.
Eventually made it to Fruita. Camped at the state park....the BLM land looked spooky and I was alone with no weapons....other than bear spray and big knife.
Rode part of the Kokopelli Trail - Mary's loop. Passed riders or hikers about every 30 minutes. Saw mountain lion footprints in the sand and decided I probably should not be riding alone here.
The next day I rode the area you photographed. Met some dudes in the trailhead parking lot and rode with them all day.
Cleaned up at the campground and hit the town of Grand Junction for some night life. There was none. Found good beer and nachos though.
Pressed on to Utah to meet up with wife for a nice long weekend.
Sent her home afterwards and had a buddy from ORD meet me, and we headed for Moab. Good times.
Continued journey solo afterwards.
Slept in back of my GMC Envoy.
Saw some FA's I knew on my return through Moab at the Jailhouse Cafe.
Really loved riding on top of Grand Mesa. Was there standing at the rim looking down from 11000' and saw some fighter jets do a high speed fly-by underneath me! That alone was worth the whole trip.
Crested Butte riding rocked too!
Thanx for the pics!