{"id":2443117,"date":"2019-04-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=304340"},"modified":"2019-04-17T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T03:00:00","slug":"the-things-that-i-love-and-hate-about-moab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/the-things-that-i-love-and-hate-about-moab\/","title":{"rendered":"The things that I love (and hate) about Moab"},"content":{"rendered":"
A biker from the Roaring Fork Valley makes the transition from skiing to biking last weekend on a trail north of Moab.<\/strong>
Bob Ward\/courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As good as the skiing has been, I needed a four-day weekend in the desert to melt away my end-of-winter blues.<\/p>\n

Multiple hours of hiking and biking last weekend gave me plenty of time to think of my love\/hate relationship with the Greater Moab Desert Area. I have loved the canyon country and what it inspires me to do since my first trip 33 years ago next month. I hate that so many tourists \u2014 people such as me \u2014 are flooding the area in increasing numbers and with a growing arsenal of toys and activities to undertake.<\/p>\n

I loved drinking beer around the campfire and occasionally howling at the moon.<\/p>\n

I loved that even though there were a fair number of campers within earshot of one another, everyone was cool and chilled out at a reasonable time of night.<\/p>\n

I loved getting up to whiz Saturday morning and seeing the setting moon turn the clouds red. Not sure I\u2019ve seen that before.<\/p>\n

I loved how the diversity of trails allowed us to ease into our mountain biking season and ride increasingly tougher terrain over three outings.<\/p>\n

I loved how even though it was a busy weekend, we were able to hike in a relatively obscure canyon and not see anyone for three hours. We had one of the coolest pictographs I\u2019ve ever seen to ourselves for as long as we wanted.<\/p>\n

I loved visiting the Moab Brewery. No trip is complete without it.<\/p>\n

I loved seeing endless sandstone cliffs with desert varnish again.<\/p>\n

I loved watching the ravens play tag with one another.<\/p>\n

I loved how my bicycle performed after a January tune by the valley\u2019s best mechanic.<\/p>\n

I loved how I survived the weekend with just a few bruises and lost skin but no major injuries.<\/p>\n

I hated to see during a short walk from our camp to a canyon rim that a few soulless mountain bikers had indiscriminately plowed through crypto soil gardens.<\/p>\n

I really hated that so many mountain bikers either were unaware that uphill riders have the right-of-way or they didn\u2019t see fit to honor the singletrack code.<\/p>\n

I hated that some of the side-by-side vehicle drivers were true pricks with no regard for anything but their need for speed. They acted like they were in a rally car race and that pedestrians and bikers on the dirt roads were obstacles to maneuver around at high speeds.<\/p>\n

I hated people who pulled into trailhead parking lots with their music blaring. Dude, no one cares what you\u2019re listening to.<\/p>\n

I hated that Moab can\u2019t get a grip on sprawl.<\/p>\n

Most of all, I hated I didn\u2019t buy something in Moab 25 years ago when I first thought of it.<\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A biker from the Roaring Fork Valley makes the transition from skiing to biking last weekend on a trail north of Moab.Bob Ward\/courtesy photo As good as the skiing has been, I needed a four-day weekend in the desert to melt away my end-of-winter blues. Multiple hours of hiking and biking last weekend gave me […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443117","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 21:10:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}