Heather and I headed down to Saint George, Utah for a long weekend to spend some time with family. I had already shipped my Kestrel down as now my Trek is my new training bike. This way we both have bikes down there for when we visit in the future. We typically go down for about a week in December as well as a few weekends here and there through the winter.

We flew down on Thursday morning and then did a short ride (Garmin) to the Tuacahn Amphitheatre and then through the Kayenta community. The next day we rode the old Gunlock Reservoir loop (Garmin) that they used for the former Tour of Saint George/Chums Classic/Tour of Hurricane. They scratch-graveled a large portion of the road as Heather found out when she came down a month ago. It was so thick it was a pain to ride in and made her time really slow. But after a few weeks, it was much better and most of the loose stuff was only on the outer edges of the road.

On Saturday we did a nice ride (Garmin) we hand not done before. We headed out towards Gunlock Reservoir, but then made a left up Old US Hwy 91. We had never ridden this stretch of road so we didn’t know what to expect. It’s an alternative route to Las Vegas (116 miles) but we only rode to the top of the climb. It was a great climb with beautiful views but coming down we learned that the road was pretty rough. It has lots of small crack that were fine at 10 MPH but not at 30 MPH! Once we got home we went to the community pool with the family and enjoyed a nice dinner.