Back to Reality

So we made it through the road trip in one piece. Utah is incrediblely beautiful - who knew? I thought it was all just deserts and churches! So we had to cut it pretty short but we managed to make stops in Goblin Valley, Calf Creek, Zion National Forest, Gooseberry Mesa, Sands Hollow and St Gerorge! Phew. We managed to get a lot of hiking and mountain biking in as well as a few desert runs.. that sand is a killer it gets EVERYWHERE!! We saw antelopes, deer, a wild cat maybe a jackall and a lot of goblins in Goblin Valley. Gooseberry Mesa is amazing for mountain biking, someone has gone to the trouble of marking out various routes of varying technical difficulty over the rock. Yes I said Rock. The whole trail is slickrock. Which is so weird because I have never ridden on rock before and its amazing just how grippy it can be. Basically you can ride up or down much steeper things than you could if the tracks were dirt because of the high grippage (yes thats a word) which makes for a much hairier ride but definitely recommended for anyone who likes to ride.

We finished up at Mount Pleasant and then flew home from Salt Lake City on Monday. So here are a few photos whilst I get over my jet lag!

A Goblin!


Camping at Gooseberry Mesa


Riding the Slickrock



Caroline x

Road Trip

We are finally going! We got the car back today all fixed up so tomorrow morning we leave for Goblin Valley followed by Bryce Canyon, Gooseberry Mesa, Zion and then to Salt Lake City from where we return home. We have had to cut it short as we originally were planning on taking two weeks over this trip and now we only have 6 days. So Arizona and Nevada have been chopped to keep the mileage manageable.

Hopefully we will be able to camp along the way and we have our bikes, trainers and climbing shoes with us so we are both really excited although at the same time sad to be leaving Colorado. It's only for 8 months though and then we will be back for a bit longer as long as we can find some work to do! I will miss this place though its so beautiful and it is so nice to walk out of your front door and be able to do pretty much every sport you love without traveling anywhere.

I will put some photos up of the next week once we arrive back in the UK.

Take care,

Caroline x

Broken Down Car!

Argh! The Road Trip that we have been planning for ages and that was supposed to originally take 2 weeks has now been postponed again! The car has broken down (great timing) and now it won't be fixed until Monday... which means we now have to cover 1000 miles in 5 days rather than 14! Very annoying eh?

So we are sitting here with all our bags packed around us the flat cleaned and nowhere to go! Oh well.. at least the sun is shining again the last two days it snowed and snowed and snowed! In May! So we had around 2 feet of snow but no mountain to go snowboarding on. Frustrating!

Well two weeks from now and I will be sunning myself at the Cannes Film Festival with some of my girlfriends - much planning has gone into the "which bikini shall I wear with these shoes" debate! I am really looking forward to it.. now if I can only get out of here!!

Caroline x

The Hanging Lake

The Hanging Lake near Glenwood Springs







Mountain Biking in Fruita