Woohoo, for this ride we started with Wire Mesa which is one of my favorite loops in the area, and added some new to us trails for a great ride of 21.3 miles with 1620′ of climbing. There are two ways to get to this ride and I can no longer recommend going at it …
We are boondocking on the trail network here in Hurricane and it is very convenient to ride right from camp. Our first mountain bike loop was 25 miles with 2433′ of climbing. As I mentioned the other day, this is not our first time in the area. We have been coming to ride the trails …
From camp we can see the magnificent towering cliffs and mesas of Zion. We took a morning to hike Eagle Crags just outside the park and loved it. This hike is 7 miles with 1300′ of climbing with great views across the valley to Zion. The best part of this hike is you don’t have …
Even though we have been enjoying warm sunny weather (Derek would say it’s hot), our ride to Kolob Reservoir was a good reminder that winter just happened. Our out and back ride to the reservoir was 27 miles with 2830′ of climbing. Kolob Reservoir is a 250 acre “lake” created in 1956 by the Kolob …
After spending a month in Nevada we moved a state and we’re up in Utah. We didn’t make it very far though, we’re back in Hurricane, UT. We have been here a handful of times over the past couple decades and love it. Last time we stayed at some friends’ property but we’re boondocking this …
A couple times when we were further back from our boondocking spot we could see some red rock buried back in the mountains behind us. Today we hiked out to see what we could find. Our hike was only 5 miles but it took us 3 hours because there was no trail and we weren’t …
All the roads out here are gravel but pretty rough in some spots. So, we rode our mountain bikes out to the historic Gold Butte town site. Our ride was 35 miles with 2610’ of climbing. This was an out and back though you could make some other loops if you wanted longer distance. This …
As you can see from the last month or so of posts, we are in rock formation geek out area. Basically the only thing limiting you from seeing all sorts of things is your imagination. Today’s hike was a bit of a stretch though. We hiked 6.2 miles out to Doodlebug Arch and around through …
Today was petroglyph day! We hiked around for a few hours to see some of the featured petroglyphs and to find our own. The area is sacred to the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians and the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and includes thousands of petroglyphs and traces of human habitation, such as agave roasting pits …
One of the great things about living on the road is the ability to hear about our see something and go check it out. That’s exactly how we got to be where we are this week. When over by Valley of Fire State Park last week I could see a giant mountain in the distance. …