last day of summer vacation

All good things, etc., etc.  To wrap up our excellent summer vacation week, we returned once more to the MOAB Brand trails for a morning ride.  It was fairly cool, given the cloud cover, and a light breeze kept temperatures quite pleasant at around 86 F.  There were just a handful of vehicles in the parking lot when we got there but one of them was a big tour group: thirteen tourists and two guides.  We managed to get ahead of them at the start of Rusty Spur and then, on our second time around, lapped them as they were turning off at the cut-off back to the parking lot.

Gentle slickrock

Other than that big group, we saw just a couple people out on the trails, which was in keeping with all the rides and hikes we'd done that week: it's just not crowded in late July (because it's so dang hot).  After our 16.58 miles, we had parking lot beers to cheers the great week.

And then there was nothing left to do to go back, clean up, toss the dog and all the dirty clothes in the truck and head home.  On the drive north, we were already planning out what to do on the next trip.  There's still so much to do!