Near Hurricane, Utah * September 26th – 29th, 2007
The 2nd Annual, post Interbike, Gooseberry Mesa, trail bike extravaganza and camp-out was an unbelievable time. We rode just about every trail section on GM and one trail twice!
Goose is one fantastic place!
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On the trail:
Randy rocks the South Rim Trail.
Nancy loves riding in Utah.
Steve on the “Bowls and Ledges” trail – this is a totally fun place to ride!
It’s a small world – we ran into our buddy Ray Cunningham from Reno on “Bowls and Ledges”
Just to the right of Randy is a sheer cliff that drops hundreds of feet…. the valley floor is 1,100 ft. below.
View from the North Rim trail.
The Point
Video: don’t look if you’re acrophobic
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Campsite
We had just about the greatest campsite on the Mesa.
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What the hell is a Gooseberry?
This is the Gooseberry bush that dominates the mesa.
A Gooseberry – about the size of a grape.
Gooseberry bush
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Area 51 & UFOs
We took the Extraterrestrial Highway (Nv 375) back thru central Nevada. What a cool road – probably the most remote area in the continental USA!
Actually Aliens 98
You see like one car an hour out here!
While we were out in the boonies we found Warm Springs - a place that Randy visited on an Outward Bound trip as a teenager. The place has a big pool where visitors could soak in the hot water. He’d forgotten where Warm Springs was located (it’s at the junction of 375 & 6), and had wondered about the place over the years – it was fun to find it again. Unfortunately the operation is now defunct and they’re piping the hot water off for some other use.
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Links:
- More photos at Flickr
- UtahMountainBiking.com the best resource for mtn biking in Utah!
- Pete Fagerlin Gooseberry Videos good!
