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A Fruita Roadtrip, Part II, Moabilisciousness. (43 posts)
|  A Fruita Roadtrip, Part II, Moabilisciousness. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:13 AM | | "Moab sucks, there's no singletrack"
Just keep telling people that to keep them away.
When we left our heroes in the last episode, they were bunked down in squalor in Cedar City, UT.
A new day has dawned and we're in Moab to hook up with Joey Jo Shabadu for some Amasa Back action that includes one of Hfly's trails.
Enjoy the pics from the classic Amasa Climb because most of the pics that were taken are rated Top Secret and not for public distribution.
Before I post up the pics let me just say that Hfly's trail and the Amasa Back Singletrack rival any technical singletrack that Ive ridden and the views send them right to the top of the list.
Here are the La Sals from Amasa |
| Jed climbing to a boat ramp. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:14 AM | | |
| AWSOME Pics yet again! nm | Trevor!
Apr 29, 2003 2:39 PM | | |
| awesome (nm) | mac
Apr 29, 2003 10:15 AM | | nm |
| Climbing a slab of slickrock | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:16 AM | | |
| Jericho centerfold shot. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:17 AM | | During a break a bike was posed. |
| Mike working one of many ledges | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:19 AM | | |
| It's all about the double chamois. (nm) | Zonic Man
Apr 29, 2003 10:19 AM | | |
| Like sitting on a fat lady's thigh. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:23 AM | | Or so I am told. |
| Marc hating his Bullit. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:21 AM | | Seriously. It's for sale soon.
(he cleaned this year's version of the Horsethief entrance on his SS w/80 mm fork so he doesn't need it) |
| maybe the bullit hates him... | narlus
Apr 29, 2003 11:35 AM | | ...for not airing that drop! |
| IIRC, the landing was nasty. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 12:29 PM | | I'll have to look at the pics that didn't make the cut to verify.
The huckstresses that were with us didn't air it either, so that might be why. |
| Landing larger/steeper than the roll in.... | Zonic Man
Apr 29, 2003 3:30 PM | | I'm sure if you were a WC pro with a big bike, it would be possible, but there was WAY too much room for error (or death) if you didn't land perfectly. |
| The landing zone. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 3:34 PM | | |
| yeah, i can see how that would curb yr air impulse | narlus
Apr 29, 2003 7:05 PM | | btw, what's IIRC mean? |
| IIRC is geek speak for "If I Recall Correctly" | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 7:06 PM | | Marc is even more air-challenged than I am so the landing didn't matter in the least... |
| Jed in the Amasa rock jumble | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:22 AM | | |
| Monitor check. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:25 AM | | There are two riders approaching Jacob's Ladder in this picture. |
| Hey MikeT, pic of your ladder here. | AK Ken
Apr 29, 2003 11:46 AM | | Good job, Pete.
Ken |
| Ahhh yeah !! | Mike T.
Apr 29, 2003 1:13 PM | | That's what I wanna climb (bike on back of course) real bad. Pity it's 30 hours drive away from me :o( |
| Joe takes the exposed route. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:27 AM | | Long way down. |
| Wall ride shots. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:28 AM | | Steeper than it looks, especially in this flat looking picture.
Joe |
| STIL, considering..... | Zonic Man
Apr 29, 2003 10:29 AM | | You're pointing the camera STRAIGHT UP. |
| A better angle | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:30 AM | | |
| What big eyes you have... | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:31 AM | | |
| Jed on the wall | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:32 AM | | |
| Mike, moto style, on the wall | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:33 AM | | |
| Mike, moto style, on the wall>>> dual front brakes? | Brown Teeth
Apr 29, 2003 10:49 AM | | Looks like some Vees for backup? I'm considering that too if I finally go disc, looks like he has a spare cable set? Given those hills looks like spare brakes might indeed be smart!
BT
http://www.kcbx.net/~tsulaiti/surfreport/ |
| After the ride, we helped Joe hydrate. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:35 AM | | Considering that he's trapped in alcohol-challenged Utah, he needed some help hydrating. |
| After the ride, we helped Joe hydrate. | rubbersidedown
Apr 30, 2003 4:44 PM | | Hey! I recognize that pint of JD! |
| After the ride, we got down to basics. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:37 AM | | We noticed a bunch of dots up the canyon and they started jumping.
This is a sequence of one guy's jump.
Except for one guy, they all jumped and their chutes immediately deployed. |
| That other guy. | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:41 AM | | This was scary and I don't know if it was planned or not.
This guy was in free wall, diving, almost 2/3s of the way down the face.
You can compare his progress to the other shot, note the V notch with vegetation to the right. |
| That will get the heart rate up. | Colby
Apr 29, 2003 12:16 PM | | nIce pics of the base jumpers. That must have been something else to see. |
| I think that's how BASE jumpers show the size.... | radair
Apr 29, 2003 6:16 PM | | ...of their nads.
I climbed El Capitan in 1985. On our second day on the wall, four BASE jumpers went screaming past us, the wind chattering so loud against their flight suits I'll never forget it. A really scary sight from very close range.
The last guy didn't pop his cute until he was almost 1,000 feet below us, after maybe 2,000 feet of freefall. I thought sure he was going to crater, but he pulled it off and they all ran across the Merced and got into a waiting pick-up truck.
That's a sickness that I think there's no cure for. |
| And finally, before the ride, while at Poison Spider | Pete.
Apr 29, 2003 10:45 AM | | We ran into this nutty Fruitian, Barent.
He and his buddy Jerry had just finished the kokopelli from Fruita to Moab including one day were it took them 9 hours of pushing their bikes (with 100 pound Bob trailer loads) to climb 7 miles into a nasty hurricane-like headwind all.
He still had a certain glow about him. |
| Looks Familiar | Ivan the Terrible
Apr 29, 2003 10:53 AM | | I just got back from there. Lots of fun. |
| This Too | Ivan the Terrible
Apr 29, 2003 10:58 AM | | Did you boys try this one? |
| You're a freak | yankeeheel
Apr 29, 2003 12:27 PM | | We'll be heading out your way at the end of May. Do you have any body parts that belong on the inside that you'd like to have pop through the skin for us this time? |
| Freaking Bad Ass Rider | Ivan the Terrible
Apr 29, 2003 1:29 PM | | Yeah, I'm intact and I'd like to keep all my body parts inside this time. I don't need anymore disgusting wounds to entertain you guys with. |
| Not on that day. | shabs
Apr 29, 2003 5:43 PM | | I broke my Foes a few days before they got here, and I wasn't up to hitting that on my HT, but yup, I have hit that. Its even smoother than the other Super 8 jumps, and has the gap bonus.
Nice picture, thats a good angle. |
| I know where my next 'out of state' trip is. | Kitchenware
Apr 29, 2003 6:09 PM | | Oh yeah, that looks fun! |
| Wait till you see the Freeride Park | shabs
Apr 29, 2003 6:44 PM | | There are moves and drops up there that make this one look cake-ish.
Oh, I mean the riding here sucks, its crowded and played out. |
| re: A Fruita Roadtrip, Part II, Moabilisciousness. | Howeler
Apr 29, 2003 11:43 AM | | well I got my wallpaper fix.
nice |
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