Moab Mountain Biking

Photo of the Week: Majestic Moab Scenery

You can’t help but just stare at this photo taken by rovingmagpie in the Bike198 Flickr group.

When I look at other riders images online…I like the scene to take me away to another trail and away from the rat race of the day. This image caught my eye because it does just that.

Moab Mountain Biking

I was fascinated watching the bikers; all skill levels and degrees of expenditure were represented. We’ve logged many thousands of miles on road bikes but only tried mountain bikes once. Not the best experience, I think we should try it again sometime.

Moab’s Slickrock Trail has been on our to-do list for a while but with it’s worldwide reputation as a mountain bike Mecca, it’s mobbed with bikers in season. Dodging flying motorcycles and MTB’s is not much fun for hikers and it’s their trail anyway, so we’ve stayed away. But there we were, off season this time, so we gave it a try.

It was fan-freakin-tastic, and that’s by Moab’s already high standards. There were just enough bikers to add interest and with the snowy mountains as backdrop to the slickrock, it was a visual paradise. I wound up with so many photos I liked that I had trouble culling out the losers. Winding up with about twenty photos you like from one day of hiking? That’s a good day!

Join the Bike198 Flickr Group and start submitting your photos. They show up in the sidebar of the site and sometimes get featured in articles like these.

Want to take better mountain biking pictures? Check out this three part series by Keith Pytlinski.

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