Life on Mars: Part 10 - Proof

Home now. Having trouble moving around for some reason. Not sure why. I wasn't feeling like this yesterday. Might have something to do with Craigs' week long boot camp down in the states. 7 days of a riding and I used them all.

I'm not usually in my blog, but there were enough cameras floating around that I could scrape together a few shots. I saved them for the last entry in the trip series. It's my blog, I can shamelessly self promote if I want to.
I gotta send a thanks out to Craig and Ina for letting me tag along. It was nice to ride with Steve and Susan as well. The road trip went relatively well. No one killed each other, no one got left behind.


My bike, the Cove Hustler. IMHO, the best single pivot bike out there. Heavy tho, needs to go on diet. Wheel set, stem, peddles, bar, cassette, rear shifter and derailleur are all on the shopping list for this fatty.

This is me on a slick rock face on Porcupine rim. Riding a rock bridge out on Westwater Rim back in Utah.
And Kevin took this one of me on our first ride together on Holy Cross.
That's the trip for anyone wondering how was life on Mars.

Life on Mars: Part 9 - Photo Compendium

Lots of cameras on this trip. Lots of good pics, not just mine. I tried my best to collect the photo's as best I could but there were too many to sort through. Craig, Ina, Steve and Susan, if you have any pics you would like posted, I can put them here.

For starters, here are 20 or so photos not taken by me....

Life on Mars: Part 8 - The Ribbon

Last ride of the week for us. The Ribbon, thankfully a shuttle ride up to the top provided by Kevin's friend, Sarah. After the Ribbon was complete, we would come out in the 'Lunch Loops' area behind Kevin's house and take another crack at Holy Cross, one of my favorite trails from the trip.

The top of the Ribbon is a mesa, way up hi. Yay! More heights.
The entire Ribbon was like riding down a tilted parking lot. Not too much skill required, but damn fast!.
There were a few technical rocky sections before the bottom. Here's Craig...
Dave(Kevin's Riding buddy)........
And the Man himself.
At the bottom we found ourselves in Canyon that needed peddling out of.





For my money, the Ribbon is a fire it and forget it trail. Fast but no so fun and not always worth arranging a shuttle to do. It's the kind of trail you can ride once in a long while.

After we finished on Holy Cross, the crew decided to be tourists again and went to visit the Colorado National Monument. Here are some photos of that.


Driving around up high around more cliff faces. Not my thing. It was good to be down, and back at Kevin's for our last night of beers and blogging before we started the trip home.

Life on Mars: Part 7 - Fruita

I followed my best ride of the week with my worst. Kevin took us into Fruita for a tour of some of the trails he built. Moore Fun and Mary's loop. I was tired for the first 2 minutes. But I slogged on. Here are some pics.











The Scenery out here continues to steel the show.

It' Saturday night now, and I still have more pics to post from todays ride on the Ribbon. But they're going to have to wait a few days until Im back home. The Van leaves in the morning for Vancouver.