The Easterners weren't getting in until early afternoon so we had time to go for a MTB ride in the morning. Although it was likely cool enough, we left Milton at home: he'd had a big hike yesterday and we were planning to take him with us for an evening hike with J, V and S, and we didn't want him overdoing it. Since gas prices are so appalling right now ($4.54/gallon), we didn't want to drive too far so off to the Moab Brand trails we went.
The parking lot was plenty busy but we just didn't see too many folks out on the trails. We did our new regular route - Lazy EZ to Rusty Spur to Bar M to Bar B/the Arches National Park border, back to Bar M, cutting over the top to the upper portion of Lazy EZ to the parking lot cut-off to Bar M and around the northern end of the loop back to the parking lot. I stayed on the newly-redesignated trail while H tempted fate and took the longer, former route, now posted with No Trespassing signs.
Ride stats: 12.57 miles
J, V and S rolled into Moab around 2; we let them rest, get something to eat and hit the grocery store for supplies before scooping them up and heading off to Hidden Valley for a welcome-to-the-desert hike. H and S were out in front, catching up on several years of news (they'd last seen each other during the Great Interlodge of 2019); Milton stayed in front with them and was not ranging as far afield as he usually does on this hike. Like this morning, although the parking lot was quite full, we only saw a handful of folks out on the trail, all heading back to their cars.
It was a lovely evening, the setting sun highlighting the petroglyphs up on the red rock wall. We went back down the way we came and drove to our house for pasta dinner and making plans for the next day. J and S, who were going climbing on Monday, headed back to their AirBnB but V, who was going hiking with us instead, stayed over, much to Milton's delight. (Not surprisingly: literally everyone finds V delightful.)
Hike stats: 4.68 miles
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