Spring is that wonderful do it all time in the Utah, the mountains will have 200 inches of snow this week (with more coming) and the trails in certain parts of the state starting to enter their prime its a good time to be a Utahn. This Easter weekend we went out to test that theory in Southern Utah and did some riding on the semi famous Gooseberry mesa trail. We drove down the St. George Friday night and then left with Coby, and his friends Wade and Dave and Daves older brother Mike. We pulled a little tent trailer out onto the mesa and had a nice little camp. We were woken up at 4 AM by a freak storm that came and went fast but other than that it was uneventful. We got at about 730 and were all packed up and on the trail by 900. We decided to take the South Rim trail and go from there.
Coby and I had GoPro's so we got some good footage of the fun singletrack, the slickrock known as Gods Skatepark and the mesa edge and the ride back along the white trail. Check out the Video above for the [rather long] video. Or check it out on youtube for HD quality (I was lazy and didn't upload both version on 360). It was pretty cold riding for the first hour, the second hour warmed up and we had a good time. We had minimal personal casualty; Everyone ate it a little. The truly unfortunate turn of events was that Dave's rental cannondale had a catastrophic hub failure about where the south rim trail meets up with the white trail...so he had to head back to the car. 0 - 2 for him i hear. Other than that, it was a great ride. We didn't take many pictures, just one in fact of us on the ridge.
Coby also had mytracks running (we had great verizon 3g out there...go figure) and got a track of our route. That data can be found here
I might be out in the mountains tomorrow skiing. Lets hope.
