Side x Side Forum Moab Ride...Pictures & Videos!

[ravencr]

I sure had a great time hanging out with everyone from the Side x Side Forum: http://www.sidexsideforum.com ride this past weekend in Moab. Shannon from XXX Offroad: http://www.xxxoffroad.com and I rode the Flat Iron Mesa trail on Thursday, then hooked up with everyone else on Friday to ride Poison Spider Mesa. On Saturday the groups split, and our group rode Pritchet Canyon and the other groups rode Hell's Revenge and Fins and Things. On Saturday night, Shannon and I hooked up with Chris Burke from Marshall Motoart: http://www.marshallmotoart.com/ and rode Hell's Revenge from 10:30pm till 1:30am. Sunday morning came quicker than expected for most of us, and a lot of us ate breakfast at Denny's before heading home around 11am. Overall, it was a great trip with great new and old friends. For the thread on Side x Side Forum, go here to see all the pics from everyone: http://www.sidexsideforum.com/viewto...er=asc&start=0

Here are my pictures, and the videos will follow eventually.

Here's Shannon flexing out his brand new Polaris RZR S on Flat Iron Mesa trail on Thursday:








Here's Shannon driving UTV Off-Road Magazine's Race RZR on Flat Iron Mesa trail:






Here's Ryan and Cassandra coming up a crack on Poison Spider Mesa trail on Friday:


Here's Brent popping a good wheelie on Poison Spider Mesa:


Dave throttling it up the same steep climb:


Here's Lynn coming up the same climb in a nice controlled wheelie all the way up:


Here's Larry doing a good burnout on the same climb with 40 psi in his tires :


Here's some group shots:






Here's Brad coming up what I'm going to call the Rock Racing Hill:


Here's Gavin and Sarah racing up the same hill:


Brent racing up:


The Man...The Myth...The Legend:


Even Kyle and Michelle had to get in on the racing action:


Check out this sequence of pics of Jared and Dave racing:










That ends Thursday and Friday's pictures on Flat Iron Mesa and Poison Spider Mesa trails. I'll post our pictures from Pritchet Canyon in the next post.

Chris

[ravencr]

Here's Chris from Marshall Motoart climbing up the first obstacle on Poison Spider Mesa:


Here's Brent coming up the same ledges:




Here's Jared on the same climb:


Here's me on the same climb:


Hold on Jace!


"The Animal" attacking a steep climb:




Dave climbing it:


And, here's my failed attempt at the same climb:










I soon realized that the extra heavy rear section of my cage and 12 gallons of fuel doesn't add up to a great agile rock climber:


Here's Chris from Marshall climbing up Rocker Knocker:




Here's Brent coming up Rocker Knocker:




Here's Dave coming up it heavy in the throttle as usual Down boy...down boy!




Here's the old race RZR needing a hand on Rocker Knocker:


Look how cute!


Here's Brent coming up a really steep climb. There's definitely no shortage of steep rock faces on Pritchet Canyon, that's for sure:


Here's a little group shot with Jared's hardcore wife Ruth(7 months pregnant I might add):


Here's Chris climbing effortlessly up the hard line on another big rock face:




Here's Jared picking a tough line up it, as well:




Here's Brent going up yet a different way:




Here's Dave going up the same way as Brent:


Me going up the same way:




Here's "The Animal" making short work of the bypass at the Rock Pile:


I love this sequence of Ruth's face:








After one failed attempt on the rock pile's bypass, here's Jared's choice of another line:




Here's a genius idea, let's skip the bypass and get straight up the 10-12ft ledge of the Rock Pile! The facial expressions Ruth makes are classic!




Here's me going up the last obstacle of Pritchet Canyon...gotta love long-travel, that's for sure:


Here's Jared taking a different line up the big smooth section of the last climb:


We had to have a "I conquered Pritchet Canyon" picture, right?


What a great trip, great trails, no carnage to my knowledge, and met some great new friends, as well. What more could you ask for!

Chris

[ravencr]

Here's just a quick video on Flat Iron Mesa Trail that me and Shannon rode on Thursday.

You Tube

Chris

[christianmoche]

looks like you had a blast man.

[ravencr]

Moab is an amazing place...it's hard to have a bad ride there, in my opinion.

Chris