Our 4 day Moab bikepacking expedition started early at 6:45a.m. with heavy doses of breakfast burritos and coffee from Moab's Muffintop Cafe and a smooth ride 20 miles upriver along the Colorado on Hwy 128. Blue skies, green waters and soaring red cliffs soon gave way to the vast expanses of Castle Valley and the snow covered, and very distant La Sal Mtns to our south as we first hit dirt on Onion Creek Rd. Ascending steadily into "the Narrows" under the Fisher Towers climbing area we methodically crossed Onion Creek a claimed 27 times through beautiful narrow canyons under free standing rock pillars like the "Totem Pole" eventually working up into the copper tinged foothills and steep climbs up onto the Fisher Valley. Scott Wither and Trout's buddy Owen met us at the top of the climb and enjoyed the last few miles of scenic red dirt roads with us en route to our 1st camp at Hideout campground under the watchful walls of "Cow Head Butte" or as I like to say, "Cow head-butt". The Withers brought a cooler full of beer and Cokes so we built a big campfire, de-chamoised and popped on the .98 cent flip flops before crawling in the sleeping bags and hitting the hay at 75 mph. 30 miles (20 paved/10 dirt) and about 2700' of climbing on awesome roads that Trout coined as mostly "flatty-ups".
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