Vern usually goes on a walk on Sunday mornings so this
time I though we would go to the place where I go mountain biking.
There are trails for the mountain bikes, motor bikes, ATVs, and hikers.
This mountain is to the Northeast of our house.
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Vern, TK, and Mushu climb to the top of the hill at the
beginning of the hike. |
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Here is what it looked like unzoomed. |
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It was a really windy day. It would have been perfect
out there if there was a little less wind. |
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One of the "evil" plants that tore me up when I went mountain
biking out there. These are not too bad as they are small
but painful if you fall on them. |
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These bushes were really bad since they are knee to chest high. They crowd the sides of the trail and do a number
on you as you ride by. |
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Here is a close up of the flesh rendering thorns. :p |
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TK and daddy. |
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One of the hills on the "easy" paths. It is a steep
hill with lots of loose rock makes this difficult. |
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Another of the cacti of this region. This is just a
baby one. There are some the size of a car. |
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Not to many of these, but small and can sneak up on you if
you are not careful. |
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TK got tired towards the end of the hike so daddy had to
give him a ride. |
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Heading home after a 2-hour hike. |
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Here is the trail that I mountain biked. The part we
walked was from the end point to the top of Little Moab, which
is 4.9 miles. |
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When Nana and Gung-Gung came to visit we took Nana up the
trails for a 4 mile hike. |
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Everyone at the top of Little Moab. Kris was surprised
to hear we got mom to hike this far. :) |
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Here is the view from Little Moab. It is hard to tell
but ahead is a very steep slope back to the city. |
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This is the Northeast Franklin Mountain's Trail. It is
about 7.3 miles long but in the middle we did a loop to rerun
part of the course. It was a curvy downhill slalom run, it
was a blast to go down. |
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Here is a map of the two trails in respect to each other. |
