Utah - Hurricane Rim

Time for our annual post-vegas mtb trip, an exodus to escape the sin city as soon as possible and get somewhere...real.  Luckily some of the world's most beautiful, and best for mountain biking, places on earth are within striking distance from LV.

Our trip was a little balled up this year since the seattle crew went to moab with half the rest of the civilized world, plus half our crew could not leave until Saturday, not Friday like the rest.  So we did a more local ride on Saturday afternoon - Hurricane rim in Hurricane, Utah.

I had to scramble for a bike and managed to borrow an Endorphin from Knolly - usually a perfect bike for the Utah desert but it had big tires and a heavy fork and a huge coil shock, so it was a little heavy for pedaling.  But when the trail went down it was sublime.

We all felt pretty terrible after a week of Vegas, so pace was slow (well Eric and Chris were doing their best XC racer impersonation).  We were chased around the desert by thunder clouds but just managed to escape the rain.

Mike was rolling his custom hand-build and self-designed Proletariat 29er, perfect bike for this trail.
I was dead last but glad to be turning the pedals and the trails were siiiiiiiick...
Eric had 2 flats, setting a trend for the weekend...
A nearly lost phone and 2 hour car ride later we were in the general direction of Moab.