Kokopelli Trail Recap: Game On!

We loaded up Wednesday morning and set out for Fruita.  It took us a little while to get the truck and car packed but we had it all dialed and we were ready to roll.

My 11-year-old Honda Toting Four Bikes Like a Boss!

When we rolled into Fruita, Don, Richard, Kyle, Fenton and Nick were itching to squeeze in a ride.  Don and Steve still had to pickup their rental bikes and Kyle had to assemble his IF.  Unfortunately, the airline lost Fenton's bike and he rode the backup hardtail.  Fenton's bike did eventually show up in the wee hours of the night.

Nick and Richard's Preride and 18 Road Trails

Fenton Assembling the Yeti Thursday AM.

With all of the riding ahead of us, Steve, Johanna and I grabbed an early Mexican dinner and did some last minute food shopping for the trip.  The rest of the crew got some delicious pie at Hot Tomato.

Overall it was an amazing trip. The original plan was shuffled a bit when we couldn't figure out a reasonable shuttle system or route for the 35 mile climb and we decided to just skip ahead to Porcupine Rim.  Porcupine was amazing and I don't think anyone regretted that decision.  On the third day we broke down camp and did some local riding in Fruita...which was pretty lame compared to dropping 4000' over 14 mi the previous day. In hindsight, maybe a short ride at Slickrock would have been the way to go...but it is what it is.

View From Campsite Number 1

Campsite 2

Just One of the Stellar Views Along the Way

We Got Pretty Good at Packing the Truck by the end.

Kokopelli Trail Recap: Pregame

Well, Steve found the highlight of his trip to be a few days before the serious riding even started.  I booked a New Belgium Brewery Tour for Myself, Steve, Don, Johanna, Richard and Nick.  Johanna actually wasn't feeling well and Nick wasn't in town yet so our crew of four hopped on bikes and rode over to the brewery.  The weather was perfect for a bike ride and an afternoon of drinking beer.  The tour itself was kind of lackluster due to our less than stellar tour guide, but, the beer was good...(except for that last brew we sampled Le Terroir I think) .

Anyway...we had an interesting afternoon after the tour but instead of boring you with my story...I'll just let the following picture speak for itself.

Kokopelli Trail: Fruita to Moab: Prep

We've got a bunch of friends coming in from VA next week to do a huge MTB ride from Fruita , Colorado to Moab, Utah.  It's going to be 3 days of epic mountain biking.  With a big weekend on the horizon, we've been laying low this weekend.  We are making some final bike preparations and working out the final details of the plan.

Each day is going to be broken up into two ride sections.  The entire Kokopelli trail is about 142 miles...but we aren't actually going to do all of it.  Our 3-day itinerary starts with the first 40ish miles, then we'll shuttle to the halfway point for the start of day 2 and pretty much ride the rest of the trail on the second and third days.

People will start showing up next Saturday and we actually hit the trail on Thursday.  I am sure a lot will be happening before we even hit the first mile of trail so stay tuned.  There's a plan for the New Belgium Brewery tour and even some talk of skiing.  Who knows what else is in store.