So we took off at 5:30 am and left Kaysville. We made the usual stops and got on the trail at may 9:30. We parked on the frontage road on the last Green River exit. The first part of the ride was basically following The Crystal Geyser road until the first single track called Guys Trail and made our way to White Wash Sand Dunes. From there we poured our 1 Ltr bottles of gas in our tanks which didn't seem to really add much. We were sitting in the dunes and some guys ride up from NM and TX. Woody, a very nice gentleman from Roswell, NM saw us pouring the gas and pointed to his truck and said to go fill up our tanks. We did and left him some cash under the gas can in appreciation.
Our plan was to try to make it to the Campground 15 miles out of Moab to fill up. We would never have made it without Woody's help because I was on reserver with 15 miles left.
We ended up going down Dead Cow Wash....what a riot, that wash was so cool. Has anyone else gone down it? At the bottom we walked out to check out the Green River. I tried to drop off a 3ft ledge at the bottom of the wash just like we all have hundreds of time and when I gave it gas to make sure my front tire landed at or near the same time as the rear, I must of gave it a little too much throttle and ended up going over backwards. When I hit, I felt the knee rip. I rolled around for 10 minutes knowing I just tore my right knee up. My magic button was not working, my battery was barely alive so I had to kick it started. I am so glad I adjusted the valves a few weeks ago and was very thankful for my RevLock clutch.
We came around Dead Cow Loop to The Tubes (cool) to Three Miles of Whoops to Tenmile Canyon and out that way on a little nicer road which my knee appreciated. By the time we hit the aspault, the wind was blowing about 30 to 40 mph. The campground was closed but they still had gas so we filled up. The group took off for Green River via dirt roads while I hit the highway and I-70 back to the truck. I got back about 20 minutes before they did and the wind was terrible. I had to hug the gas tank and couldn't move my head for fear the wind was going to rip my head off. I was dodging tumble weeds.
We ate at Ray's Tavern, grabbed some Ibuprofen and headed home.
It was a fun ride, I unfortunately only took a couple pictures because we never stopped.
