Shanandy

I heart Cedar Mountain September 28, 2008

This weekend we decided to ride Cedar Mountain again. We’ve always wanted to ride the western half of the Virgin River Rim trail. We rode the east half at the first of the summer, and it was brutal, but awesome. The western half, while seeming like it would go downhill literally felt like we were climbing 80% of the time.

15 miles of brutal climbing, so so scenery, and a dirt two track road at the end.  I wasn’t the weekend of my dreams but I’m glad I’ve done it once, and will most likely never do it again.

The so so on the scenery is because the aspens were in full color, and they were against the pink cliffs of Cedar Breaks. The air was pretty crisp and signs of autumn were everywhere.

I also forgot to post some great pictures from the first of this summer. Shan, Owen and I rode the Indian Hollow trail.

Indian Hollow was probably some of the best riding I’ve ever seen, and most of the worst. The trail starts off on a kind of alpine meadow and drops in to a slot like granite canyon with a stream in the bottom. Your riding on soft beds of pine needles and your literally swooping along the banks of the stream. A little later on though the trail is frankly just destroyed from ATV’s (which aren’t allowed on the trail). It’s steep, its full of rocks and the ground is just torn up. It’s not fit for hiking or mountain biking really. At the end of Indian Hollow your on a 10 mile double track road that’s cindered. While providing some awesome views, its frankly not that fun to ride.

You do end up in the town of Panguitch which has a lot of nice small restraunts to eat at. It’s also one of the cleanest friendliest small towns I’ve ever been too. If you’ve never been there, I promise you that you won’t regret the trip.