Category Archives: Trails

The season is finally here! After what seems like an eternity of cold weather, today brought excellent conditions and an awesome ride in the hills. We did end up bucking a bunch of snow and even had a quick snow shower and rain roll through. Good good times, when are we going again?

Check out the video below, Chris demonstrates the textbook procedure to execute a proper endo.

Crew: Cort, Wally, Tim, Brock, Chris, 108(?), Rich and me.

My batteries died ~10-15 miles before we got back to the truck, so these stats are off a little.

I should include the email thread that lead up to this ride… hilarious! Thanks for the laughs.

First of all, the Full Factory Performance race van (aka Beav-mobile) is a-maz-ing! Yes, there are four full-size bikes snuggled in there, all the gear, seating for four, DVD player, and 25mpg at 83 mph (governor). Color me jealous… it was cool, thanks for the ride there Wally.

The first day we put in nearly 70 miles of riding that included a lot of variation in the terrain. There were gnarly obstacles, steep hill climbs, slick rock, fast sand washes, sand dunes, and miles of back-breaking whoops. I’m not sure what the names of all the trails we were on, I still need to dump the data from the GPS and figure it all out, but I know we rode the “Rick Lee” trail, passed by “picture rock”, played in the sand dunes, did some of 10-mile, white wash, tubes, and Bonnie & Clyde.

The second day, we went down and rode the Sovereign trail for a 32 mile loop. That is the third time I’ve ridden that trail, but this time it was so much fun! I remember being totally sketched out in the past and wrecking a lot on some of the sections, but this time it felt really good and I had a blast.

Thanks again for letting me go and putting this ride together, let’s do it again. I’m very excited for this season of riding, holler if you’re itching to go!

Crew: Wally the Beav, B-rock, Richie-P, and me

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/MotoGreenRiverMoab

I never got around to posting my last ride of 2009. I had to travel to St. George for work and I figured I might as well load up the bike and visit my friends the Bodilys a little bit farther south. The weekend ended up being quite the adventure as the transmission in my truck decided it didn’t like the long drive. Long story short, I had to call in a bunch of favors to get me and my truck back to CV. Thanks to everybody that helped out (Kory, Daryl, Tim, Chaz, Kory’s friend with the dolly)!

It was fun to go for a ride with Kory, we’ve been friends for a long time, but both of us got into riding dirtbikes after they moved away. Logandale looks like it has a lot of fun desert riding year-round, it was great to leave from his house and just head out. We went out a couple of times, but I only took my camera and GPS the one time, I wish I would have had them earlier when the kids went with us. I was impressed with Kaleb on the little YZ80 in the sand!

Crew: Just Kory and me

Posted on 2/3/2010 -> starting to get cabin fever and itching to ride again!

Snowy, muddy, cold and fun. That’s what today’s ride ended up as. I think we spent the majority of the ride in snow or greasy mud. It was nice to make it through this time with no flats or mishaps. The temp was 36° when we started our ride a little bit after noon and I don’t think it really warmed up all that much. It was nice to meet and ride with a newcomer to Cache Valley, welcome Garrett, hope to ride with you again.

The views were beautiful and other than one jogger and a pickup, we had the whole place to ourselves. We thought we were going to run into a bunch of hunters, but apparently the season hasn’t started yet.

Full album here: http://picasaweb.google.com/alhill/20091002MotoIdahoHighline

Crew: Chaz, Garrett, and me

The poof powder is getting thick. The trail was pretty slick and dusty with the soft moon dust, but it was a good ride with just two of us. I’ve really been enjoying the Beaver Mtn –> Gibson –> Beaver Creek trail sections, and I really love going down snowslide and back up St. Charles… awesome!

There were signs warning of prescribed burns in the St. Charles area from Sept. 6th – 30th. We didn’t see or smell any smoke so we dropped in, but there were some sections that had definitely been burnt since the ride the week before.

Bumped into Wally after the ride and heard about his over-the-handlebar experience on his 100-mile adventure with B-rock, looked pretty beat up, hope you get healed up soon!

Crew: Codie and me.