+1. We scratched the surface in Page 6 years ago and this is what I've been expecting ever since.

@evdog, I think I mentioned the mostly moto zone on the AZ border--similar expectations if it can...

I think the red rocks are cooler, but fall leaves are ok, too.
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I feel like this thread needs proof that evdog rides the bike that he poses in all the cool places. I'm guessing he's going to need a whole thread for the TR, but here's a few (hopefully the server...

The Casto to Red and less people on GBM than Guacamole yesterday confirm my suspicions. Would love to compare some notes and ideas about this area if you're at GBM or LC today. Sending you a PM.

Fall is killing it in here. Congrats to east or bust! Excellent choice in riding buddy.

I'm on a southern Utah trip with mine right now. Thunder Mountain got nixed for an unplanned new-to-us ride...

Bear grass up high, berries down low and not quite dusty yet. Longest Saturday of the year well spent!

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Yeah, that side was cool, too. We were on like day 5 and my wife wanted it to be a rest day, so I couldn't get her to descend those switchbacks at all, but the cruise back on the high plain is done...

I was just thinking the same thing, maybe even the whole west. But we had 9 days riding SW recently and even the two that had rain were gorgeous.

Also can confirm that you and your crew build...

Username checks out.

Damn. Heal up man! I was just thinking of you today--cruising by southbound and had to remind my wife there was a Black Diamond outlet in town.

A little something to get you fully acclimated:

https://youtu.be/Rye3ICBMOPE

Loopin around
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Slava Ukraini. Not quite as good as Skilyft's, but there sure are a lot of yellow fields and blues skies to choose from lately!

You could edit the photo, that seems to fix up the Pio's. OTOH, that's cool.

That's awesome. Merry Christmas

It's been taking long enough, but this might be the best fat bike snow I've ridden. More, please!

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Looking like there's direct access to a flatter sloped rock section from the lake that might lead right to the gentler side of a ridge and back to the trail below the hike-a-bike. Very intriguing...

I think we're losing the alpine here, too, so yesterday my wife agreed to a spur of the moment over-commitment: just 9 miles and a couple thousand feet, but almost all hike-a-bike as it turns out, at...

Took a sudden jaunt into the desert to try to remember how to wake up before the sun. Seems effective, although the pics never do the colors any justice. Drove Satan's Washboard to get to these...

That is awesome.

@TAFKALS: when that snow melts...

Nice work Skilyft! This weather has been just good enough to keep me in biking season but a little of both looks like a better idea.

Congrats on getting back out there, that's a great trail to get right on.

+1, great to know!

Indian summer seems to have ended yesterday, so we had to take a shot at a tall new trail before it gets all icy up there. Pretty nice for mud-October!

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Not a great pic but I found it amusing: trails that have been unchanged for years being re-labeled "expert only" because...tourists? New green trails need more traffic? Perhaps an homage to a new...

Someone should sell those to those of us without enough time on our hands

Good stuff as always! I love dead tree pics.

Mrs has somewhat recovered from the type 3- fun, it seems: I couldn't convince her to go ride a "real" alpine trail again yet, but this worked pretty...

True. Lots of discussion lately of whether trails like these need better PR, or if the best PR is to shut up about them. Honesty simplifies this one: no sense wasting the needle bed on people who...

The fun regressed last weekend, starting with type 3. That Prince guy is not afraid to walk. Which is lucky

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Sometimes we rode up, but that hurt more. The trail was made by mules driven...

See first rule.

Hey powdork, how tight are your controls' bolts? I'd much rather have them turn in a crash so the last few years I've only tightened them just enough so they don't spin easily. Stem and all. No side...

Fair point about coverage, so maybe the much-loved POCs would be short there. But anything thicker than lycra should keep a brake lever out, shouldn't it? Hopefully. The '18 thread still has good...

Damn, dude! Just about any of them should help with that one. Hope you're doing better!

Sorry to see this turn into a carnage thread suddenly. Hopefully everyone heals well and misses no snow days!

Ignore the frozen ground and white garnish for the time being, though; it's still...

I'm not saying the one key to all human happiness is mounting up fresh rubber and alternately pounding and caressing the beautiful natural contours of a Virgin landscape. But it works for me.
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My wife planned an outing for the weekend: starting with a road trip and a little camping. So I went forth and scouted a spot by a little river
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Short drive this morning brought us to a...

Did he lace that 3-cross or 4? Thread keeps delivering!

We made do with water bottles re-filled from the drinking fountain since the ranger station was closed when we got done, but that worked for critical areas--this was as good as it got before we found...

That describes it perfectly--except we had clouds and should have known better. The camera in my brain captured the worst indelibly, but the sight of adobe over-tires extruding between chainstay...

Thunder Mountain is not recommended just now. The dirt on 80% or more of that trail seems to handle a little moisture really well, but the transition to sticky clay and concrete at the high points...

Bernard Peak trail is about perfect now that the smoke cleared
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Had some colors, even
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Gift days FTW
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Nice! Did Xan and Neil finally got one in your hands for a long term test?

Ok, that^ And that ^^^ are some awesome stoke! Homemadesalsa, hoping for a climb up that podium next year?

^^That looks awesome. Did you have to go with the overhead brown pow?

This started in fun
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I think that was about 20 yards from where the tears showed up when she crashed on the return...

Heh..just log in to the website on your phone (no Tapatalk) and edit the post--it'll disappear instantly!

That pic looks familiar. Deja vu, or have I been dreaming about that wall? I want to go to there!

Day long tour for the fourth, sort-of-beginners in tow. New trails ridden, new riders stoked

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Badass indeed. I sometimes think about a battery powered sawzall, but props for not messing around!

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Yep. West side of Kelowna, Daze of Roses.

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Mountains, water, trees...

Very nice! The pics look pretty good, too