There are legendary battlefields in every sport. Big wave surfer has North Shore. Climbers have K2. And white water Kayaka has Zambezi. If you have courage, strength, skills, the Slick Rock Trail in Moab, Utah offers the ultimate mountain bike.
Slickrock's sidewalk measures only 12 miles, but it inspects physical and mental every 1 inch. Most moonlit landscapes were formed when the inland sea used to cover the southeast Utah was dried, leaving the petrified sand dunes of Nataho sandstone. The name Slickrock is a real misnomer. There is a texture of the wallpaper on the surface of the dunes. This wallpaper is a friction faith, a baby 's bottom bowl, a steep creep that you need to climb on your tire, a hairy section of the trail. The name Slickrock came from an early settler in a region where a horse with shoes is difficult to cross the terrain.
And in the theme of the topography, it is steep. Damn it. In most cases, to overcome the constant downward pull of gravity, it is restrained to the lowest gear while pedaling violently. So, you need to enter the shape before you go out into the desert. Next time push yourself to tackle the stronger and harder long way on the local route - it is the only way to build a stamina for conquering Slickrock.
One of the biggest risks of Slickrock is not the course itself, but what surrounds it. Looking in either direction, your eyes are rented in a sweet visual candy in the surrounding landscape. Weathered sand dunes, beautiful rocky bushes, luxurious valleys are everywhere. Crazy about the beauty of nature, it is easy to pay attention to where you are riding. The next thing you know is to fly over the handlebar and first slide your cheek across the coarse dunes. It is important that you do not distract. And there is one reliable technique for improving your focus: going on a journey to Manhattan in the summer and walking through Zavilege without seeing the beauty of barefoot. Look around. Slickrock becomes a walk of cake if you can tolerate that challenge.
In addition to preparing your body, you also need to prepare your car for traveling. I can not bring Moab to my bicycle, so I have to bring my bicycle to Moab. Most riders are equipped with a base roof rack on their vehicles. Since it consists of a crossbar and a tower fixed to the scalp of your car, the roof rack forms the basis of the installation of the bicycle carrier. Furthermore, by installing the cargo ship on the roof rack, you can arrange spare parts, extra inner tubes, bicycle tools, enough granola and trail mix to prevent stomach hypertrophy.
