As we are wont to do whenever a long weekend rolls around, we hied it down to Moab, actually taking the Friday off as well and going down Thursday after work to avoid the traffic. It was definitely busier than it's been down there, what with the holiday weekend, the last gasp of summer before school and the Moab Music Festival, one of the few live music festivals happening in the country this year. But "2020 busy" is not the same as "non-pandemic-year busy" and, as such, it really wasn't that crowded. Bad for the small business owners in town, good for us on the trails.
It was, however, very, very hot - like 103 F hot - which curtailed our activities somewhat. To take advantage of the clear blue skies and not-yet present heat, we MTBed early-ish on Friday and Saturday. We were at the MOAB Brands trails on Friday, doing our new normal route of Lazy-EZ, Rusty Spur, Bar M, Circle O and Lazy-EZ/Rusty Spur. There were at least fifteen cars in the lot when we got there, including a couple of guided tours, but somehow we saw only a handful of people out there.
Saturday we drove up to Dead Horse Point State Park where the main parking lot was surprisingly full (again, with at least two tour groups). We timed it perfectly, however, and again only encountered a handful of people out on the trails. H was riding really well, having nearly conquered Twisted Tree, and I did okay, except for when I tipped over on my bike because I was going too slowly when trying to get up a steep and loose little pitch.
Other than that, we laid low, trying to keep out of the heat. We did do a couple of evening neighborhood cruises, with me on my town bike and H and Milton "dog-boarding" (wherein H rides his longboard and Milton tows him). We must have looked ridiculous - since I don't have brakes and Milton is a little unpredictable as a power source - but it was fun. Luckily there is no photo evidence because we were all too focused on not crashing our respective modes of transportation.
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