18 Hours of Fruita was a killer mountain bike endurance race just over the Utah/Colorado border at Highline Lake State Park. After competing with friends from Team Lung Butter, we came in 7th place out of twelve multi-person coed teams. You can read a trip report and see a ton of pictures from the May…
Category: Mountain Biking
Mountain bike the Little Cottonwood Creek Trail to Temple Quarry
The Temple Quarry mountain bike ride, also known as the Little Cottonwood Creek Trail, is a crowded area filled with hikers, casual walkers, trail runners, rock climbers and mountain bikers. Despite the traffic, the trail is a fun, short but strenuous ascent along the south banks of the creek at the bottom of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The ease…
Spring is the time to “Bike the Swell”
Mountain biking is everywhere in Utah in the spring, especially in the desert regions. The San Rafael Swell may not be well known around the world like Moab, but “The Swell” has a lot to offer the fat-tire crowd as well. The annual San Rafael Swell Spring Mountain Bike Festival is one way locals are…
Mountain biking Corner Canyon in Draper
Ghost Falls Trail, Clark’s Trail, Canyon Hollow Trail, Bonneville Shoreline Trail and Jacob’s Ladder are all mountain bike hungry trails in Draper’s Corner Canyon. All of these trails can be linked together, creating a buffet-table of singletrack. One of the more popular variations is the Clark’s Trail/Ghost Falls Loop. This ride has just about everything, including…
18 Hours of Fruita mountain bike race
18 Hours of Fruita is a mountain bike endurance race that is both a competitive event and a fun party in one. 2010 is the sixth year of the race and the course this time around was lengthened to around seven miles as it winds around Highline Lake just north of Loma, Colorado. Although located…
Novara Gravitron Bike Jersey review
Bike jerseys these days are like rock climbing clothes of the ’90s. Skin tight, multi-colored monstrosities are the fashion and hopefully, 20 years from now, we’ll be smacking ourselves in the face for poor style judgement. Until then, it will remain difficult to find a jersey that doesn’t make you look like a circus clown. Thankfully, Novara offers the…
Mountain bike the Bobsled from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail
The Bobsled, a wild descent from the Bonneville Shoreline Trail, is a technical ride combining smooth single track, stream beds, banked turns, jumps, obstacles, low-hanging branches, and several abandoned cars. Any local rider will tell you it’s the only way to descend between Dry Creek and City Creek Canyon, as Bobsled has become a sort…
Photos and video from the White Rim Trail in Canyonlands National Park
The White Rim trail in Canyonlands National Park has become a yearly tradition among our group of friends. Each spring we work out the mountain bike kinks and stretch our winter legs by tackling one of the longest rides in Utah. Over 70 miles of dirt road, slickrock and sand makes for a hell of…
Mountain bike the trails in Price at TrailFest 2010
Mountain bike season in Utah is starting to gear up, which means festivals are right around the corner. TrailFest is one such gathering on the singletrack in Price. Although Price, Utah isn’t really known as a mountain bike destination like Moab, there have, over the years, been many new trails cut and maintained by the…
Mountain bike film “Follow Me” to screen at Brewvies
The new mountain bike film, “Follow Me” will screen at Brewvies on April 29th at 7 and 9 pm. Brought to Utah by the Wasatch Area Freeride Trail Association (WAFTA), “Follow Me” is the first movie from Anthill Films, a new company founded by the guys who are also responsible for “The Collective,” “Roam,” and…