Gemini Bridges-Golden Spike-Poison Spider

Hi Guys,

I find myself once again going outside and finding snow. I managed to get on the mountain bike today for a chilled 40 minute ride. I had 2 layers of gloves, 3 shirts, 1 vest, hat, bike pants with warm bike stuff and was still cold. It is really hard to ride to work when the snow keeps falling. Ski school is in full swing and it is fun to see kids finally get it.

Below is the last day of the Moab MTB trip photos. Our 17.5 mile day grew to 33.5 when one member of the group got fed up of the hike-a-bike sections of the golden spike to portal trail and decided to go down into poison spider greatly increasing out day.


This is a panorama photo. Note there are two pictures of me in this photo. Kind of weird.

Here is the group going over the gemini bridges. Really cool arch.

Trey had a thing about destroying every tube he had. This was another tubeless tire that had to get a tube.

We found this great climbing rock on our ride. One guy said this rock was known as the "crackhouse". Kind of weird, except, there is a 3~5 inch crack down the middle of it. If you were a really good climber, you could hand jam upside down the whole 100 or so feet this is long. You are only 3.5 feet off the ground but it looked ridiculous.

Here is Matt playing on the rock.

Here Scott is playing on the rock. If you look behind Scotts camelback, notice the crack in the rock. That is where you follow the crack for an insane climb.
Trey actually didn't puncture a tire with this demonstration. Hanging out.
With my sprained wrist I gave it a whirl...not to well. The wrist wasn't very happy with me.
And to round out the group, Mike B from San Diego is hanging out.
Here is Matt, dropping down the rock trail. It is kinda fun to think that jeeps go up this stuff.

Scott takes a more direct line off the biggest drops he can find.
Mike B on the Ibis Mojo makes this drop look easy. That carbon fiber bike sure looked nice.
At a lunch stop, here is looking back toward gemni bridges area. There is a lot of rock, scrub and nothing.
Looking the other way, we are heading along the rim in the picture all the way to the right side of the below photo on the edge of the rim. That is where we were supposed to go down.

Mike B riding up a nice long rock hill.

You know you are strong when you can hold up a rock from crushing your buddys bikes.

Oh wait, I can do it to...must not take that much strength.

Here is a panorama of the rock looking into the canyon nearby. Where the guys are standing is a serious overhang. Kind of freaky when you look at where we were standing when you are aways away.

We started to find oil drips from a Jeep that didn't fair so well. It was almost better than the trail markers.

Going up the hill in the above photo, we made our way to the rim looking down above Moab.

The next post is continuing along Golden Spike trail along the rim trying to find the portal trail, one guy getting fed up with us and taking us all down the poison spider sand dunes of death trail.