{"id":1296,"date":"2015-05-11T18:59:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1296"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:02:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-10T03:02:38","slug":"utah-weekend-guacamole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=1296","title":{"rendered":"Utah Weekend &#8211; Guacamole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend Bill O\u2019Neil and I made a dash to Utah to get on some good red dirt and killer rock riding.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0We were quite surprised that\u00a0a storm\u00a0had settled in\u00a0the SoCal area the night before and\u00a0brought in some much needed rain along with some\u00a0snow at the higher elevations.\u00a0\u00a0 It was a mighty fine time to get the hell of Dodge.\u00a0\u00a0 The destination\u00a0for\u00a0day\u00a0one was the\u00a0Guacamole trails perched up on a mesa outside of Virgin, Utah.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After copious amounts\u00a0coffee, beef jerky and\u00a0a tank\u00a0and change of\u00a0fuel (burned at a highly uneconomical rate), we crossed into Utah to be greeted with storm clouds.\u00a0\u00a0 As we\u00a0rolled through St George and Hurricane\u00a0we were\u00a0intermittently getting rained on but I had learned that in this neck of the woods if you don\u2019t like the weather wait five minutes.\u00a0 As we rolled through\u00a0Virgin\u00a0there\u00a0were clear skies above and the\u00a0dirt road that goes up to the mesa had just a puddle or two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1997\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/702a1f08002921f8fd5796989facab7c.jpg?resize=607%2C911\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-03\" width=\"607\" height=\"911\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was a bit brisk and windy but beautifully sunny when we rolled out onto the first trail segment\u00a0called Margarita. This was a new trail to me and I was stoked to check it out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1999\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/0de5aae7c6afcbf3756392570c1c95ba.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-05\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was not long before we juked onto the Salt on the Rim trail and got in some good views along with the sight of incoming weather.\u00a0\u00a0 Someone in Seattle once told me that there is no such thing as bad weather only bad gear.\u00a0\u00a0We had the gear, but\u00a0from the\u00a0best we could tell it looked like this storm would pass us just to the south.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2001\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/c55a9660ed03e25d3330beea61766bb6.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-12\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We did end up get a little sprinkling on us as we made our way out to the main Guacamole Loop but\u00a0it only lasted a few\u00a0minutes.\u00a0\u00a0 What we were left with was\u00a0straight up hero dirt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1995\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/f543144c2836f18171749854371ac3f6.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-26\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took a connector trail called Lime\u00a0(These trail names rock!)\u00a0that went out to another loop called Holy Guacamole that took all the way to the southern tip of the mesa.\u00a0 We had good views of Zion Nation Park as well as the north rim of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/Utah-Gooseberry2006.htm\">Gooseberry Mesa<\/a>\u00a0from here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150905064634\/http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-29.jpg?ssl=1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1994\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150905064634im_\/http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/99b4f07811b6cf0b1d848f73bf02ce30.jpg?resize=840%2C560&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-29\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is\u00a0some fantastic single track with good technical challenges through amazing landscape with Zion National Park just a stones through away.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1992\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/eb748fcd200596bda0a7a8bdcaf014da.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-40\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In several spots the trail is literally along the park\u2019s fence line.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-38.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1990\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/68218abae791007bb616b42cd955efdb.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-38\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Holy Guacamole this is a fun trail!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-39.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1991\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/wp-content\/imagescaler\/9f9910127462a5c62799638cc636d62d.jpg?resize=840%2C560\" alt=\"UT-Guacamole-08MAY15-39\" width=\"840\" height=\"560\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Holy Guacamole goodness brought us back to the other side of the earlier loops we were on that eventually\u00a0took us back to the trailhead.\u00a0\u00a0 This was some grade A trail awesomeness and it will certainly not be my last time riding on this mesa.\u00a0\u00a0 Shortly after we got off the mesa and headed back to St George we got into a good bit of rain.\u00a0\u00a0 We were pretty stoked at our window of fortune with the rain and we were particularly\u00a0glad we had decided to get a hotel room for this trip vice our typical camping arrangements.\u00a0 It was a mighty fine start to the weekend.<\/p>\n<!-- Begin Yuzo --><div class='yuzo_related_post style-1'  data-version='5.12.81'><!-- without result --><div class='yuzo_clearfixed yuzo__title yuzo__title'><h3>More Stuff Like This<\/h3><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div class=\"relatedthumb \" style=\"width:165px;float:left;overflow:hidden;\">  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <a  href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=2086\"  >\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t  <div 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