Grand Enchantment Teasers
6 days out on the bike. The memories are flooding and flowing, ebbing.
Some sections… well, many, turned into “quite a deal.”
Plenty of water around, with many fords.
4 slot canyons of varying difficulty and highly variable suffering level.
Not all were so easy…
A normally benign slot can become anything but with a loaded bike, and when traveling solo. I sufficiently scared myself on one.
Rather than looping the trail, or shuttling it, we figured 8′d it. So there was some blacktop to be ridden — but it served a blissful break from otherwise difficult conditions.
Wildbunch trail #7 was a buckin’ bronco ride if I’ve ever seen one. More challenging to stay on the bike and on the trail than the oil drum bronco with all of your friends yanking on the lines.
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April 1st, 2008 at 7:13 am
Looks truly epic.
April 1st, 2008 at 3:36 pm
Where in the world is that??? I’m all laid up here with a bum knee and you post this amazing scenery/place/space WOW! That isn’t “the catwalk” is it?
April 1st, 2008 at 4:41 pm
Matt– just read about the knee. So sorry to read about it, especially from Hidden Canyon. Ouch!! Hope the healing goes quickly.
We rode from Safford to Alma, NM (and back), and that is the catwalk. That “slot” we just went out and back on since we had time in the evening and I’d never been there.
The other slots are on the Safford Morenci “trail”, the old pack route between the farms and the mines.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 pm
Six days on a bike, what a dream. Planning a trip end of April for nine days. Should be good to get all the cob webs out.
April 15th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Scott - I just learned of the topofusion website. I am truly impressed. Your photos and commentary are wonderful.