
As I prepared to take my first trip out to Moab, I was suddenly not too psyched. Strange. I’d been waiting for this trip for 15 years, since I’d seen that shiny picture of red slickrock in a bike magazine back when I’d first started mountain biking. As I sat down with my Moab pocket guide to map out some rides, however, I noticed a dire lack of singletrack among the ride depictions in the book. Instead, I was seeing an unhealthy dose of “4 x 4 roads” and, worse yet, “gravel roads”. This is what to expect from the unequivocal mountain biking capital of the world? Really?
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