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• Trail 031

  Trail 031 is a less-traveled piece of singletrack high above Dry Fork in American Fork Canyon. It connects with the Ridge Trail 157 at Pole Line Pass. My trail map describes it as some of the Wasatch's "sweetest bits of singeltrack". I had... Posted Jun 17 2008, 11:44 PM by Epic Riding. Epic Writing. Filed under: Wasatch, singletrack, Utah

• Sun. Dance.

  There is a unique pain to a short race. Muscles scream, eyes blur, lungs burn. It is over as soon as it starts, and yet it feels as if will never end. And then there is the speed. Ducking and leaning through corners, standing and hammering out of the... Posted Jun 12 2008, 08:26 AM by Epic Riding. Epic Writing. Filed under: races, singletrack, sundance

• If a Tree Falls

  An old tree stood at the trail junction of The Ridge, Tibblefork, and the South Fork of Deer Creek. I shot this photo last October. And then I found this photo from UMB user " heifferson ", taken on June 2nd. That is a shame. I liked that tree... Posted Jun 11 2008, 08:03 AM by Epic Riding. Epic Writing. Filed under: singletrack, The Ridge 157

• Altitude Sickness

  I find myself looking out of windows up at the vast labyrinth of canyons, ravines, peaks and forests that tower over Utah Valley. And I wonder, restlessly, when I will find myself among the trees, or more specifically, above them. The lower elevations... Posted Jun 08 2008, 12:27 AM by Epic Riding. Epic Writing. Filed under: Wasatch, singletrack

• Linked

  Trails are opening up. Some because of snow melt, others because they are evolving from faint deer paths to legitimate singletrack. And so the options are increasing, multiplying. From singletrack to singletrack, ridge to ridge and canyon to canyon, the... Posted May 12 2008, 12:29 PM by Epic Riding. Epic Writing. Filed under: photos, singletrack, ride