Indian Creek Weekend, Day 3

Day 3 - Sweet riding on the Sovereign Trails.

Tanya enjoying the slick rock of the Sovereign Trails

It takes a while to strike camp and pack up. By noon-ish, Tanya and I head back towards Moab to ride the Sovereign Trails. It's a new single track system about 12 miles south of town. They're constantly adding to it so we drop by Rim Cyclery to pick up a current map. Up the street is Pasta Jays...how could we not stop for lunch?! Fueled up, we're finally at the "trail head" about 3. Even with map in hand, we're missed the mark on the trail head and the trail! We have one little fun section and then can't find a way to connect back to single track. This is not at all like I remember and I apologzing to Tanya saying there's got to be more and it's all a blast. After tooling around for an hour, we find that we've made a big loop and decide the head back. There are folks at the trailhead - apparently we went the wrong way and just caught the tail end of the system. We go left as directed...jackpot!! It's exactly as I remeber it!! Fun, fast, mild technical challenges, and cool slick rock. Tanya take a scary looking slow spill where she ends up folded in half, head side down, legs over, ass up! She hears me say, "oh", "oh", "oh!" as the slow tumble progresses and yells - 'I'm OK', while still in "position", before I have time to ask. Alls well and it's just good laughs. Shortly after that, it's time to head back, down a quick cider at the car, and meet Glen, Silvia and the kids at Eddy McStiffs. I'm exhausted but it's been an incredible trip!