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Short and sweet tonight kids, no 'net at the camp so using a coffee shop excuse.
Rode in St. George in a very limited fashion today, headed up Prospector Trail intending 2 get to Church Rocks as the MTBR Trail listing is annotated, and the trail was just "this much" too wet to do it, so I ended up rolling on the road for a while before heading leaving St. George and heading down to Las Vegas.
I bet a lot of the St. George close-in trails will be fabulous tomorrow, and today if I'd found the ROCK based trail it probably would have worked out better even though I started riding at like noon, but I'm feeling the need for a BIG LONG RIDE and based upon weather conditions and other research, and talking to a shop guy down in Vegas, it looks like it's time to roll near the bright lights in the desert.
The drive down was danged uneventful, and crap was that welcome.
At the suggestion of the local shop guy, I found the campground that is up in the Red Rock Canyon and it's a really nice campground. It only has one real lack (the lack of mobile phone service does not count) - no showers.
The only thing that's going to be difficult tomorrow is I don't have a shower figured out.
*sigh*
Oh, what did you say? Pictures from today? Oh yeah ...
Where else would one breakfast?
Yummy stuff by the way, and nicely priced, fabulous coffee and house-made muffin that is more like an oversized cupcake of whole rolled oat-meal than anything else
Adams's Family Cottage, one of the "Nine" families that were "Called," were here
Big Hollow - no kidding - that's what the map says (from Prospector trail)
Looking south-easterly from the same point
Back in the Red Cliff campground, guess what I ran into? A "brother" T@B trailer!
Quasi takes a break.
Dive! Dive! Dive! Into the canyons we go...
Down in the Virgin River Canyon
Las Vegas, no I'm not going down the strip. Well, not today anyway.
Tomorrow I'm riding out of Blue Diamond (parking at the McGhie's Outpost lot, which will be closed as far as I know) and heading into the trail system that flows southward from there, through Cottonwood Valley, and hopefully as far as Wilson Tank by following the Deadhorse Loop trail. I'm shooting for a 25+ day, so wish me luck. Gotta pack the Big Camelbak properly.
I wonder if anyone will mind if I stage some water down at the Cottonwood trailhead?
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