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| Day 1, England -> Phoenix |
| Day 2, Phoenix, Black Canyon Trail Ride |
| Day 3, Phoenix, Pima & Dynamite Ride |
| Day 4, Phoenix -> Flagstaff via Sedona (Ride) |
| Day 5, Flagstaff, Round Mt Elden Ride |
| Day 6, Sedona, Darnifno & Lost Watch Wash Rides |
| Day 7, Flagstaff -> Boulder City, Bootleg Canyon Ride |
| Day 8, Las Vegas -> St George, Cottonwood canyon Ride |
| Day 9, St George, Hurricane Rim -> Gould -> Jem Ride |
| Day 10, St George, Little Creek Ride |
| Day 11, St George, Goosebury Mesa / Stucki springs Rides |
| Day 12, St George, Zen trail / Barrel role / turtle wall Rides |
| Day 13, St George -> Grand Junction, Thunder Mountain / Rustlers Rides |
| Day 14, Grand Junction, Kokopelli trails grand traverse Ride |
| Day 15,Grand Junction -> Denver -> England |
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I woke up to another great sunny day, made myself waffles with maple syrup and bananas before heading off to my favorite place to ride in the Phoenix area Pima & Dynamite. |
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| I parked up at the end of Alma school road and rode into the McDowell Sonoran Preserve. To get to the singletrack you ride along an old dirt road. |
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| I then headed north round cone mountain, the trail is great here as it winds through huge granite boulders , with quite a few short steep ups and downs. |
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The desert was much greener than when I'd been here before, with lots of flowers in Bloom, I was too early for the Saguaro cactus flowers though. |
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Eventually I came to a dirt road that goes through browns ranch area , which I headed along, I then headed north until I arrived at Church rocks
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I stashed my bike at the trail side and hiked up to Church Rocks, where I sat in the shade and eat my melted power bars. |
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On the floor of Church rocks you could see where ancient indians had ground their floor in the rocks. |
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| After finishing munching I rode North and then cut back south heading up Cholla mountain the climb was more eroded that the lat time I had visited but I still managed to clear it. |
Singletrack heading towards Cholla Mtn |
| I then headed around the north side of granite mountain, the trail was following a sandy wash and was quite tough, so when I saw a trail heading up the slopes of Granite mountain I took it - which lead to at least 30 minutes of hike a bike as the trail went steeply up the hill and eventually became unrideable. I finally emerged on the east side of the mountain and got back onto a fun trail which had huge cactus on either side. The Trail started to head back west. |
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This trail was good lots of big cactus, and short ups and downs, eventually it headed past Mushroom rock and back towards Cholla Mountain along trail 30, where I back tracked on a trail I had ridden down previously. |
Slant Mountain in distance |
As it was getting quite hot now I stopped in shaded spot for a while, and took in the desert scenery - there were loads of small birds twittering in the vegetation, and lots of insects (non-biting). Before I continued riding back towards Slant Mountain.
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Back at the start of the ride I retraced part of the ride I had already done before heading back towards Alma School riding along some great singletrack. |
View of Cone Mountain |
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Even though the riding was great I had run out of water so I decided to call it a day and headed back to my SUV. After a day of fantastic fun smooth riding. |
End of Alma School Road |
Pima & Dynamite Map |
Here is the route I took which an excellent route apart from the hike a bike I did around the NE corner of Granite mountain - if you ride this route stick to the wash don't be tempted to sneak off up small singletrack trails 8-)
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On the way back to my Hotel I stopped off at a Baja Fresh at N.Frank Lloyd Wright, and stuffed my self with loads of great cheap mexican food. Before heading back to the Hotel where I had a swim and used the Hot Tub before crashing out for the night. |
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Day 4
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