Video (Descent2.flv - runs on RealPlayer) Another descent, same day, flying through stands of aspen. Myself, Caitlin, Garret Henry, John Powers, Stephen. Video once again courtesy Adam Leuken (check out Curious George lashed to his handlebars).
Ah, the beauty of downhill grade signs...
Petroglyphs from ancient Indiana cultures.
Hanksville, Utah, pop. 250.
In Hanksville where we were to spend 4th July - we were _supposed_ to sleep in these two buildings...
A historical building that they had not quite yet restored...
...and some of us were supposed to sleep in it! The town seemed to consist of 10-year-olds whizzing around on dirt bikes. Then a teenager pulls up a ATV and screeches off to find the mayor. It like something out of the Twilight Zone.
Instead we camped out on the back lawn of the Mormon church in Hanksville. Check out the flag on our U.S./Canada tent...
Colin Henry, getting in on the action on the Hanksville 4th of July Rodeo.
Stephen hunting for food at the 4th of July BBQ in Hanksville.
Caitlin getting friendly with the natives. We heard the younger kids asking their parents "why are those people riding those pedal bikes"? To them, the only bikes are dirt motorbikes.
John Powers & Stephen trying to impress.
Went ~50 miles along interstate 70 encountering _no_ gas stations, water, or food. We had to take our rest break beneath an underpass in the middle of nowhere. It looked like something out of the Road Warrior.
Arches National Park just out of Moab.
Arches National Park, wild rock formations
...and, lots of stone arches, naturally!
Brad doing his best British tour guide impression.
Riding "in escort" out of Moab, Utah, Heather and I at front. _Fantastic_ bike town.
Out of Moab, paralleled the Colorado River for many miles. Can just make out the Penskes on the other side.
Riding along the Colorado out of Moab towards Grand Junction.
The college kid crew - a great bunch: Nicole Lewis, Mike Snow, Heather Conley, Nate Clark, Caitlin VK, Adam Leuken/
Sir Steve-o and Caitlin
Caitlin and Liza Horton.
One of the campgrounds we stayed in.
Caitlin "slathering up".
Just before the top of a spectacular ~7-mile climb out of Bitter Creek notched into the side of an escarpment. Kept going up and up with no obvous place to get to the top until one turned this corner through a notch blasted through the rock.
Black Canyon of the Gunnyson - one of narrowest, deepest canyon in the U.S.
Part of an optional 6:00 a.m. scramble to Black Canyon before the riding day.
