Trail Wanderlust
This past weekend Bill O’Neil and I made a dash to Utah to get on some good red dirt and killer rock riding. We were quite surprised that a storm had settled in the SoCal area the night before and brought in some much needed rain along with some snow at the higher elevations. It was a mighty fine time to … Continue reading “Utah Weekend – Guacamole”
I have a mountain of pictures to sort through from this past weekend of camping and riding near Hurricane Utah. Here are a few I’m working on. Friday we drove from Socal to Gooseberry Mesa where we setup camp and got in an near sunset ride out on the North Rim Trail. Saturday we did … Continue reading “Killer Weekend in Hurricane Utah”
I’m starting to get the Utah – Colorado Road trip report put together. I’m going to roll it out as I get each of the days done vice waiting until I get all eight days completed. Here is the main page that wil link to each day of the trip. I hope to get a … Continue reading “Utah – Colorado Roadtrip Pages”
Life is good! My buddy Bill and I have been running amuck through Utah. Yesterday we finished up our sixth ride in five days. We spent a day near St. George doing some mesa riding before heading over to Moab. We hit up a few of the marquee trails as well as some of the … Continue reading “Wandering through Utah”
Work has been a lot of well, work for well over a year. As such my vacation days had piled up to the point to I either had to use them or start losing them. Well I am not gonna have anything thing to do with that so I took the month of August off. … Continue reading “Summer Vacation Recap”
How time flys! MountainBikeBill.com turns 20 today. When this thing started it were no smartphones, high speed data, GoPros and YouTube. Even a hand-held mapping GPS was a tough thing to come by in those days. Thank you all for the motivation to share my love for the outdoors and mountain biking over the last … Continue reading “Turning 20!”
Here is some footage from the Blowhard trail near Brian Head Utah. This rounds out the big three shuttle run out of Brian Head resort area in Utah. The Blowhard Trail starts at 10,660 feet just south of Cedar Breaks National Monument and drops 3,700 feet over the course 7.7 miles and ends on Hwy … Continue reading “Blowhard Trail Video”
I’m still churning my way through the summer vacation footage. This latest installment is from the Bunker Creek trail. The Bunker Creek trail is one of the three big descents out of Brian Head Utah, Starting from Brian Head Peak you will do 11.6 miles of single track that will take you from 11,075 feet … Continue reading “Bunker Creek Video”
The August Roadtrip continues on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. My longtime buddy Bill O’Neil joined us on the segment of the trip arriving a couple of hours after we setup camp. Day 8 – We rode the Rainbow Rim Trail from Locust Point to Parisswapitts Point as an Out-And-Back. On our way … Continue reading “Roadtrip Part 2 – North Rim”
Here is the latest of the vintage pre-GoPro MTB to be migrated over to YouTube. This is of the Hurricane Cliffs Loop which is comprised of the Gould’s Rim, JEM and Hurricane Rim Trails. This is a great and sizeable XC loop in the area. I have not done this route in over a decade … Continue reading “Hurricane Cliffs Vintage Video”
