Lee and I coasted down the final descent to the Utah State line early this morning. The last 25 miles of trail were nothing but a superb finale. The journey has come to its end. A full report on the last stretch and final observations will be forthcoming.
The questions began as early as the trailhead. We first coasted down the hill to the Bright Angel trailhead where we started disassembling our bikes to load them on our packs. The mule trains were getting ready to go and those watching wanted to know what we were up to. We’d repeat the story a [...]
We left Flagstaff, bypassing the Elden/Peaks area since we had ridden it yesterday. So after a few miles of pavement we turned off onto the “closed” Hart Praire RD. Everyone in Flag had warned us that it would be an impassable muddy mess, and that even the lower desert could be trouble, so we were [...]
We are now at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. We left Flagstaff thinking that it was going to be muddy and possibly very snowy. But basically we only ran into piles of four to five foot deep snow drifts that we were able to ride across for the most part. The snow was [...]
We’re still in Flagstaff but we managed to ride the AZT north of town to Snow Bowl road today. Troy Marino was our guide and was a blast to ride with. He was rolling and hopping over stuff on his singlespeed that I was dabbing on. Fun to watch, but more fun was to ride [...]
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