Category: Utah

May 14th, 2019 / (170km/105mi, 1540hm/5050ft elev gain) The day starts with riding along Capitol Reef thru green canyons enclosed by steep red and beige sandstone mountains towering left and right. The road winds its way thru the canyon. I hit a bunch of bike riders coming my way – they don’t carry any luggage, […]

May 13th, 2019 / (170km/106miles, 2600hm/8530ft elevation gain, 10hrs) I start around 6:30am again and re-join UT-12 towards Escalante. It’s a beautiful part of the highway leading thru green fields that nicely contrasts with the red stone that is all around. I’ll keep the update short for today. It was an exhausting ride. While getting […]

May 12th, 2019 / (0km/0mi) As planned, today is a hiking and sightseeing day in Bryce Canyon. I couldn’t just cycle past it and since yesterday was an exhausting bike day anyways, the timing of Bryce Canyon popping up along UT-12 couldn’t have been any better. I’m rather late this morning, so only get into […]

May 11th, 2019 / (150km/93miles, 2300hm) Since today is going to be a rather challenging day — expecting to take on a pass at 3000m elevation (10.000ft) — I wanted to start relatively early at 6am. As usual, packing things and getting out the door takes longer than expected (well, getting out of bed, too) […]

May 10th, 2019 / (0km / 0 miles, 0 hm) As I had already decided yesterday, based on the cold and rain, and the terrible weather forecast for today, I declared day #13 to be a forced rest day. Cedar City is actually a good place to have a rest day – they have very […]

May 9th, 2019 / (89km/53miles, 750hm, 4:30hrs) The day starts late. I’m not used to having “lost” an hour to MDT timezone yet, I’m still tired from yesterday and there’s no rush this morning as today won’t be a particularly long stretch to cover. The diner next door offers breakfast and after having packed all […]