The Weather Breaks! And Lots of Free Stuff.

Slickrock Trailhead

Rockin' A Trail: all rock,no dirt

Day 1 of Outerbike and it was amazing! We awoke to frost covering the inside and outside of our tent, but we still made coffee and oatmeal with Greg eaking out the absolute last bit of his little campstove fuel canister.  The weather was already looking beautiful even in the cold early morning.  By the time we made it through registration and got our first demo bike, the sun was shining high and it was warming up quick.  We met a ton of really cool people, including a group from Potomac, Md.

Virtually every high-end mountain bike company was represented, and each of them had brought a ton of bikes in different sizes.  Nobody brought their cheap stuff.  Every bike I rode was $3000 or more.  There was a longer shuttled ride, but the trails right next to the sight were pretty phenomenal in their own rite, so we stayed with those today.  We went out three times, each with a different bike, each for about an hour or two and did some really good trails in the sun.  

Tomorrow we will get there early and grab some tough to find $4000 bikes and do the shuttled rides to Amasa Back.  (http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/amasa.htm)

Sunday is the famed Slickrock Trail, where we are actually camped for the weekend.

And yes there was a ton of free shwag from the reps and vendors.  This event was well worth the price of admission, and we still have two more days to go!