{"id":190,"date":"2009-01-09T16:57:15","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T00:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=190"},"modified":"2009-01-28T08:32:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T16:32:19","slug":"sedona-weekend-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainbikebill.com\/blog\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Sedona Weekend – Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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O-DAMN Early came at O-DARK:30 this morning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Things seem to come together fairly quickly for this weekend getaway.\u00a0\u00a0 It was not until earlier in the week did was I able to give the green light to meet some friends from Arizona, Utah, and Colorado in Sedona for some dirt time.<\/p>\n

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Today’s rides was just going to be a few of us as the rest of the hoodlums would not arrive until the following morning.\u00a0 I thought I was making really good time and when I pulled up to the trailhead about 10 minutes before the meet time.\u00a0 Kevin and Greg\u00a0then informed me that I had forgotten about that pesky little time zone thingy, so I was\u00a0an hour late.\u00a0 DOOOH!\u00a0\u00a0 Oh Well, we ride!<\/p>\n

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We spent the remainder of the day playing on some fun and often technical trails that were for the most part between Soldier Pass Road and Dry Creek Road.<\/p>\n

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I am always amazed at just how pretty this place can be.\u00a0\u00a0 It is one of those places were the scenery can be its own hazard.<\/p>\n

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I should have known by now, but whenever you ride with Kevin,\u00a0 there is a pretty good chance you are going to get in some technical climbing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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So while some may do a trail this-a-way Keving is gonna take you that-a-way.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I love the way the Arizona flora helps keep the singletrack single. Come off line, or dab in the wrong spot and there is a fair chance the trail is going to complain to you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Once we reached our turn-around spot which was based more on daylight than mileage we enjoyed the fruits of some of our technical climbing efforts. We flowed, we bobbed, we weaved, and we had a really good time back to the trucks.\u00a0 We did not use up quite all of the daylight, but we did not leave much.\u00a0\u00a0 Besides there was a hot tub and cold beers just down the road with our names on them. Why further delay things? While I did not have major party plans for the night, I felt a hangover was in my near future.<\/p>\n

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