Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Fruita

Jo and I headed to the La Sal Mountains above Moab last week to do some wedding planning and re-con. I won't say much but here are a few teasers of the venue.

A Few Wedding Venue Teasers





On the way home we stopped to ride some classic Fruita trails. The high desert is at it's most beautiful in late spring with green sage, junipers, pinions, and lush wild flowers and cactus in full bloom. Fruita is a mountain biker's heaven with a network of trails that offer everything. There is sticky slickrock, winding single track, fast smooth bits, and lots of technical sections to complete the menu. The scenery is as wonderful as the riding. The trail runs along a shear cliff ban above the Colorado River with views of Colorado National Monument upstream and Rabbit Valley downstream. To the north the book cliffs tower above the grand valley with majestic grandeur. We enjoyed ourselves even though our mountain biking skills were comically rusty at times.

Sweet Single Track



Flowing Cactus
(the green thing in the center is a catapillar)



Desert Wildflowers


Found this Collared Lizard on the Side of the Trail




Riding Along the Cliffs Above the Colorado River





More Wildflowers


1 comment:

Kathleen McCulloch said...

Very beautiful.