Exploring Moab by bike … and then by foot
My first Moab mountain biking excursion started off bumpy _ and not because of the rocks.
My husband, Neil, and I had traveled to this red-dust town in Utah, about a four-hour drive southeast of Salt Lake City, for a long weekend of biking, hiking and magical desert scenery.
As we drove past dramatic gingerbread stacks of sandstone to pick up our rented mountain bikes, I was nervous for the ride ahead, despite my husband's assurance that he'd chosen an easy route. He's a regular visitor to Moab, an area known for some of the world's greatest mountain biking. Before this trip, I'd ridden a total of 2 miles on singletrack trails.
At the bike shop,
