After a warm up day in Preskit, it was time to get down to business with the real goods over in Sedona. And to also meet up with the newly weds who had already been pedaling around the Red Rock valley for most of the week. Against the better judgment of others, I was asked to put together an all day ride. The mileage wouldn’t be much, but I figured we’d still use up most of the available daylight. Barcy & Ali even came prepared with lights. The rest of the weekend’s agenda would involve checking off local trails starting with the letter H. And even though today was Saturday, we were going to church…twice.
After PacMan got his cut sidewall replaced with a new tire at the great shop of Absolute Bikes, we met up with the newly weds at Bike & Bean and jumped right into the technical riding.
As usual, the views in Sedona’s don’t disappoint.
It’s seemingly impossible to take a bad picture.
Ali definitely wasn’t in Pine Valley anymore and made the best of sharpening her technical skills during the week while cleaning this waterfall section.
Trail builders take note, Sedona’s trails are some of the best built trails anywhere taking advantage of terrain features and very creative rock work.
Bell Rock on the right
PacMan riding a masterfully crafted rock feature.
More of the usual views on Hi Liner.
Oh look! There it is!
Wise guys…
Cathedral Rock
Happy riders
Coming off the backside things would get interesting
Now why do I drive twice the distance to Moab?
No funny camera angles here, some serious off camber sketch.
Back on the normal trails, we seem to have gone through a quite bit of water. So we headed over to Cresent Moon Picnic Area.
After filling up with water, it was back across Baldwin’s Crossing.
And around Cathedral Rock on Templeton
Then we’re off to church again via Little Horse and Chapel
Red Rock Chapel
In one year’s time, a new trail popped up off Mystic.
Pigtails is a real squeeler with berms, jumps, tabletops, and more.
But before we could get on Broken Arrow trail, PacMan seems to have broken something for the second day straight. Yep, another sidewall tear in his new Specialized Captain. PacMan and Spec-Ed take the road back while the rest of us continue to Chicken Point. Running late in the day, we skip the another set of H trails.
What a great honeymoon couple!
Chicken Point
Looking back up
Barcy looking down
A great ending to a day on Llama
Only to be finished off by hitting up the Oak Creek Brewery in Sedona.
