April MTB trip - April 2001
Farmington, Fruita & Moab

Text by Marcel Slootheer
Pics by James Perry, Anthony Caldwell, Paul Carter & Marcel Slootheer

Day 1

In the 3rd week of April James, Anthony, Paul, Clifton and I set out for our annual 'Go West' trip, this time to ride in Farmington, Fruita and Moab. Fruita is our main goal, we missed out on some good rides 2 years ago when bad weather moved in and the trails were too wet to ride. This time the weather forecast looks excellent. We left on Friday the 13th (not without problems; from now on Anthony's nick-name is Bender, after he killed James' rear wheel when he backed out of my driveway...) and headed West on I40 for Tucumcari, NM. The next day we continued our drive North-West and did our first ride (I call that day 1), on the Road Apple Rally/Glade trail in Farmington...

group pic

Group pic... (MS)


Seven Sisters

Clifton and Anthony on Seven Sisters... (MS)


Seven Sisters

Further down the trail... (JP)


On to day 2