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Awesome finally ridding with you guys. I've never seen Porcupine so crowded but it was still a blast (once we got to the top). It was really fun riding with you guys, the talent level was pretty high in our group and showed as we made our way down. Big props to Phil, that guy is a hammer and hangs just fine on the down hills.
CS, you are going to be the reason I break the bank this year and finally get a Bullitt, nice ride. Now I just need the nuts to hit the jumps harder and spring (I swear you have some rabbit in you).
Particle, sorry we missed you later. Our phones don't work out at the camp site and then Rotney and I ended up having a BUNCH of beers Saturday night. I always seem ready for a beer or ten afer a good Porcupine ride :D.
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Originally posted by altagirl
Sovreign's not secret - it's just new. There are two trailheads for Sovreign - you can get to it from Dalton Wells road or Willow Springs road. Easy to find, well marked with blue sprockets on the slickrock sections. There's also a Sovreign ATV trail, which is mostly sand, and you don't want that, but there are those brown trail markers that tell you which is which - you're looking for the singletrack. Probably best as an out and back, but it can be looped.
Review, map, GPS, and pictures:
http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/sovergn.htm
Thanks AG! Quite the trail review, complete with detailed geological information!
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scenic Amassa:
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...moab%20010.jpg
more scenery:
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...moab%20015.jpg
Sorry no pics from saturday on porcupine. What a fun trip, good people to hang with, good riding, time to go back.
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By far the coolest moab trip I've ever been on, so much fun. Good riding, good friends, etc, etc.
Kind of sucked initially, flykdog and I meet in Provo in hopes to leave by 10:15, be in Moab by 2 AM, should've even been 1:30. Finally pull in at 3:30 after messing with the rack for 45 minutes and missing HW-6 to price....twice.
Oh well, such a sweet crew to ride with, especially the size of the porcupine group. CS is a sick fella, never dreamed of hitting stuff that big, nor will I ever. Never been so jealous of a bike in my life as I am of Altagirl's. I will have one.
Can't wait to go back.
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Just got back....
Well, sorry I missed everyone but we ended up having a good bunch from Denver and Summit land for 6 days spent riding various trails. Went to Amasa around 4 on Sat thinking I might see a few but got a msg from Particle the next day saying everyone was tired. Oh well, we ended up having a great ride on Amasa Sat and followed it up with a SERIOUS drinking session that nite. Everyone was so hungover on Sun that we had to ride Gemini Bridges (gawd that ride sucks) and then called it a day to start drinking again. Monday was a great day and we knocked out the Porcupine loop. Sand Flats road is not that bad - I still say that looping it is the best way to do it. Tuesday we hit a different ride up an old mine road/path near Harrah Pass that eventually found it's way to Amasa and road that back down to Kane Creek road and back out to camp. Not sure what that is called but it's pretty fun and clearly almost never ridden. If you have the chance to check that ride out I'll give you some more details. It has a wicked portage in the middle and NO it is not the Jackson's Hole / Jacob's Ladder ride (this ride is on top of that bluff you are looking at when you're riding Jackson's Hole). Wednesday was Sovereign trail. If you just do the 1st 7 miles as an out and back, you missed some serious fun rolling single track that is at mile 10ish. Thursday was interesting with the weather turning on us but we ended up riding from camp again this time over Harrah Pass to Chicken Corners back to Jackson's Hole/Jacob's Ladder to Amasa back to the unnamed trail mentioned above and back to camp. Turned into a 7 hour ordeal due to some weather delays but all in all still fun even with all the dirt road. The rain started about halfway through that ride and continued all night into the next day. Had planned to go to Fruita on Friday and get in a good single track ride we found down near Rabbit Valley but due to all the mud and a general malaise about the crew we packed it in and made our way back to Summit and got our drink on.
On an equipment note: MY NEW BIKE ROCKS!!! Klien Palimino - wow, climbs great and has enough cush for the down (but not the big hits on Amasa that I saw the pics of, I'm impressed but it's just not my type of riding). Hope that we'll hook up some other time/place and get in some rides. What sucks is that I left my cycling shoes at camp!!! Damn expensive ones too. Oh well - you gotta pay to play sometimes with blood other times with the wallet.
