Travel day! And a short one, at that. Stopped in Tropic, just up the road from the KoA, to get some breakfast, then continued so we could get set up and go visit a bike shop, to find out where to ride.

Got in about mid-afternoon, went in to Hurricane proper, to Over the Edge Sports – yes, they’re affiliated with  the shop in Fruits. Sadly they can’t do the WTF (Welcome To Fruita) stickers, so they have WTH (Welcome To Hurricane) instead. Well, as I told them, they COULD do WTF stickers, but then people would be like “WTF?”. Yeah. They didn’t laugh either … though they DID chuckle a bit.

They told us about a couple of trails, and tomorrow, we’ll go check them out. BUT, before that, we thought we’d shoot over to Zion National Park to check IT out. Wow. Here we are, after the middle of October, and it is CROWDED. AND, to get to the good parts, you HAVE to take a shuttle. Well, that’s not going to happen. I’ll bet the scenery is spectacular, here’s a shot I got getting there:

Then, we headed back toward town. Well, it just so happens that “on the way back to town” took us past the trail we want to ride tomorrow, so … DETOUR!

We found the road, and “A” parking spot, but no sign (literally) of the trailhead. Damn. Ok, so we kept going out that dirt road, because on the map it shows the trail intersects that road, so … no signs. Then, out of the blue, a sign for Quarry Trail Head! Which is not on the map. Damn! Ok, keep driving, we’ll se what we come up against – and then, a rider! We pulled up to her slowly and then stopped, and asked her about it … turns out the trail intersected about 50 feet beyond where we were stopped now! Too funny. She told us a bit about it, and we let her get on with her ride, while we headed back. On the way out, we saw a guy walking his bike toward the highway, well, we HAD to stop and offer assistance! He’d flatted, and just wanted a ride to his car – no problem! Got his bike on the roof rack, and headed back up the road we’d just taken, but then he told us where the REAL parking area and trail head were! Not far from the parking area we found, but you can’t see it from there. Knowledge is a powerful thing! Took him all the way up to his car, with him repeatedly offering to chip in for fuel. Just pay it forward. If you find someone else who needs help, just help them out. Here’s Jarret? I think that’s his name:

I’m horrible with names. I asked him to leave a comment, hopefully he does, and I’ll know for sure how he spells it.

And that was our travel day!