With little sleep, gritty teeth, sap-covered packs and sore bums we rolled out early for our last day of adventure, the Porcupine Rim and it's panoply of drops, rocks, ledges and slabs. Despite knocking it out of the park on a couple miles of UPS the night before we weren't 100% sure how doable the Porcupine was going to be fully loaded down with bikepacking gear, and with 60 hard miles in our legs but these last 15 miles and 3500' of awesome descending did much to make up for the hardships, slights, minor betrayals and out and out double crossing we felt the route had kicked our way to this point. What a blast and of course Trout crushed it over every conceivable obstacle while Rose and I held our own riding along the very edge of the Porcupine Rim with a precipice to one side, across Jeep blasted roads of tv size cobbles, teetering down tilted slabs and along exposed chasms down, down, blissfully down into Jackass Canyon, across mandatory hikeabikes and finally into Moab for fresh undies, gallons of cold liquids, cheeseburgers and groaningly, shakes and cones of ice cream for the drive back to CO. What a blast! We can't wait for the next one! 76 miles all told, 8600' of climbing, one splinter, no flats, one salami, a little less water than we should have consumed, plenty of food, great weather, route, views and company!
With little sleep, gritty teeth, sap-covered packs and sore bums we rolled out early for our last day of adventure, the Porcupine Rim and it's panoply of drops, rocks, ledges and slabs. Despite knocking it out of the park on a couple miles of UPS the night before we weren't 100% sure how doable the Porcupine was going to be fully loaded down with bikepacking gear, and with 60 hard miles in our legs but these last 15 miles and 3500' of awesome descending did much to make up for the hardships, slights, minor betrayals and out and out double crossing we felt the route had kicked our way to this point. What a blast and of course Trout crushed it over every conceivable obstacle while Rose and I held our own riding along the very edge of the Porcupine Rim with a precipice to one side, across Jeep blasted roads of tv size cobbles, teetering down tilted slabs and along exposed chasms down, down, blissfully down into Jackass Canyon, across mandatory hikeabikes and finally into Moab for fresh undies, gallons of cold liquids, cheeseburgers and groaningly, shakes and cones of ice cream for the drive back to CO. What a blast! We can't wait for the next one! 76 miles all told, 8600' of climbing, one splinter, no flats, one salami, a little less water than we should have consumed, plenty of food, great weather, route, views and company!
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