5 days in warmth

Took off from home Friday evening @ 30 degrees. Stopped in st George for the night. Woke up to 40 ish degree. Fixed alternator and moved on to bootleg canyon.

First ride of the weekend was in awesome 64 ish degrees up girl scout, caldera, boy scout, and down armaggedon. Um, armaggedon bad. Really bad. Bring downhill bike and balls. Made it back as sun was setting. all pieces attached. Great first mountain bike ride of the season.

Next day was mother to imba to an unknown trail to caldera backwards to west end back to mother. Fun ride. Then a nice afternoon stroll on the road bikes.

7:00 next morning we are kicked out of the parking lot by a film crew. Off to blue diamond. We rode a section of the cottonwood trail there then moved on to red rock to ride the scenic 13 mile loop which was lovely as always.

Bye bye Vegas, up to Arizona's virgin river recreation area where we stayed the night and got a good little hike in with the pup. No sign of decent biking around there so we head for gooseberry mesa.

It's now barely 45 degrees and 17 mph winds. Time to HTFU. Rode 20 miles to and around windmill, bowls and ledges, north rim, yellow, and south rim. actually was great to be sheltered by trees and bluffs. Legs are dead.

Evening comes and temperature drops. We head back to st George and gain at least 10 degrees. We stay at the red rock rampage race site and I try to remember the course in the morning.

Whew. That's a bunch of rides. We leave the trailer in st George since we're coming back in 3 weeks and I get a break from driving on the way back.

Back to work tomorrow.