Day 14

Day 14 (June 23) was a slow, recovery day.  We woke up after a tough sleeping night.  Too many birds chirping too early.  We spent some time cleaning and organizing the van and then headed out for some riding. 

     Gemini Bridges Road connects Hwy 191 (out of Moab) to Hwy 313 (entrance road to Canyonlands NP) but is actually a pretty aggressive jeep trail past a couple of nice arches.  Good riding and desert scenery. 

 We connected to 313 and went in to Canyonlands. 

 We started down the Shafer Road to get a feel for tomorrow's White Rim Trail ride, but immediately were in for a surprise.  It's an old mining road that gets a lot of traffic, but it literally runs along the rim of a 1,500' canyon.  Very dicey, particularly when we turned around to head back up and had to ride on the outside edge!

   We checked in at the Visitors Center to get info on the White Rim trail and to get set for the ride.  After some nice "twisties" on the paved highway back to our campground, we ate a big dinner and then went for ride out toward Arches NP which is just behind our campground.  Pretty slow day, but we rested for the big ride tomorrow.