Klondike Bluffs
April 28, 2006

 
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After riding the Porcupine Rim trail, we pulled out the map and looked for something else to do that afternoon. We found what was described as a scenic moderately difficult trail called Klondike Bluffs. It's located north of town near the airport. It's an out-and-back that takes you to the edge of Arches National Park. Sounded good, so we had some lunch and headed off for more.  Things started out in a very boring way. There were two trailheads. The first was all the way out near the highway and the second was further in down a dirtroad (the trail). Being the fit riders that we throught we were, we chose the first one and rode the entire dirt road in - uphill. The whole trail (dirt road) was uphill. I guess after spending all morning going downhill, we were due for some climbing.

A bit of the way up, we could turn around and see where we had come from. In the distance you can see the landing strip for the airport. We parked a little left of that. The bluffs in the middle of the picture are the sides of an old copper mine. Up close they had that blue corroded copper color to them.


After seven miles of climbing we came to the end where Arches National Park began. We had to get off and walk from this point.


The rock formations were pretty cool looking here. Very similar to things I saw in Canyonlands National Park.  In the distance you can see
the La Salles off to the left. Moab would be to the right of them. 


A closer shot of the rocks.  


Looking more towards the La Salles.


 
Craig and I hanging out on the rocks - feeling the thrity miles we had done so far that day. From here we headed back to the bikes and rode
back down to the truck. The ride back was a lot more fun. Not quite as fast or tricky as the Porcupine Rim trail, but still fun. Back on the dirt 
road we saw a pickup truck headed back ahead of us. He wasn't moving too fast, so we set about trying to catch him. It took a little while, but
we got him. He had quite a look of surprise on his face when we rolled up next to him.


Here's a map tracked by my GPS.


The elevation profile for the ride.




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