Biking on the Burr Trail

The B&B in Escalante was very nice, as was breakfast. We just wished it would have been bigger. Not that it was meager, just that we were hungry and wanted to be fully stoked for bike riding.

About 30 miles from Escalante, the Burr Trail heads east from Boulder. It’s paved for 18 miles, and is a scenic bike ride. Because we needed to be in Moab by 4 pm, we drove out to Deer Creek and rode east from there. We also avoided some short, but steep, climbs this way.

As we headed to Moab to meet our daughter and family, we discovered we were about 15 minutes behind them on the freeway. Because we had rented a house for our stay in Moab, we needed to shop for groceries before we could fix dinner. Here’s a hint—late afternoon on a weekend is not a good time for shopping in Moab. In a crowded, unfamiliar store it seemed like it took us forever to find the things we wanted.

Anyway, now we are looking forward to lots of fun exploring with the kids and grandkids.

(All these photos were taken with my iPhone. It’s just too hard to carry my Canon dSLR while bike riding.)

Links
—Biking the Burr Trail 2012 photo gallery