Mtnbiker
04-06-2006, 11:09 AM
On a day like today we could use a few sunny pictures... :frustrated:
So I'm finally getting around to posting a few pictures from Moab a few weeks ago.
enjoy. :popcorn:
Day 1: While the wives are running the Moab half marathon, (not both my wives, hehe, his wife and my wife) my buddy and I rode up Amasa Back, and completed the loop with Jackson's trail. I've ridden Amasa before but Jackson's was new to both of us. How awesome!
I hadn't even heard of the trail till we got to the top and talked to another rider. Once you get to the top of Amasa and take in the great view, just keep heading down the jeep road (west). Maybe a mile later, just after where the iron pipe comes up from Jackson's ladder and crosses the road, a fork in the trail heads right, or northeasterly. Follow that and it turns into Jackson's trail. It is signed and everything at the top.
Up until then, the Porcupine singletrack was the most fun singletrack I've ridden in Moab, but this trail rocks too. In my opinion, at least 50% of it is harder technically than all of the Porc single. There is a lot of pretty gnarly exposure, some no-way-in-hell-is-that-ridable hike a bike, and tight and sketchy switchbacks. AND some really great views of the fins south of Moab Rim and the river far below! :2thumbs:
Jackson's trail turns Amasa into a big clockwise loop, and sort of peters out at the end into a stream. Cross the stream, and from here it's quite an adventure, but it takes you back up to Kane Creek Rd, to wherever you parked. It was very challenging, but a ton of fun too if you don't mind hiking the bike a little bit. :mrgreen:
Hiked to Corona arch later in the day and will post those as well.
Day 2: Sovereign singletrack... Again, Awesome! If you haven't ridden this singletrack, DO IT! Kind of like Gooseberry but with more singletrack and some Moab flavor.
So I'm finally getting around to posting a few pictures from Moab a few weeks ago.
enjoy. :popcorn:
Day 1: While the wives are running the Moab half marathon, (not both my wives, hehe, his wife and my wife) my buddy and I rode up Amasa Back, and completed the loop with Jackson's trail. I've ridden Amasa before but Jackson's was new to both of us. How awesome!
I hadn't even heard of the trail till we got to the top and talked to another rider. Once you get to the top of Amasa and take in the great view, just keep heading down the jeep road (west). Maybe a mile later, just after where the iron pipe comes up from Jackson's ladder and crosses the road, a fork in the trail heads right, or northeasterly. Follow that and it turns into Jackson's trail. It is signed and everything at the top.
Up until then, the Porcupine singletrack was the most fun singletrack I've ridden in Moab, but this trail rocks too. In my opinion, at least 50% of it is harder technically than all of the Porc single. There is a lot of pretty gnarly exposure, some no-way-in-hell-is-that-ridable hike a bike, and tight and sketchy switchbacks. AND some really great views of the fins south of Moab Rim and the river far below! :2thumbs:
Jackson's trail turns Amasa into a big clockwise loop, and sort of peters out at the end into a stream. Cross the stream, and from here it's quite an adventure, but it takes you back up to Kane Creek Rd, to wherever you parked. It was very challenging, but a ton of fun too if you don't mind hiking the bike a little bit. :mrgreen:
Hiked to Corona arch later in the day and will post those as well.
Day 2: Sovereign singletrack... Again, Awesome! If you haven't ridden this singletrack, DO IT! Kind of like Gooseberry but with more singletrack and some Moab flavor.