Cruising in Cedar City
The Moab High School Mountain Bike team started their season strong, taking fourth place in the Division Two category on the Three Peaks course in Cedar City. The middle school team also competed…
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Pedal on!: Kids learn mountain biking skills with local nonprofit Moab Youth Cycling
Local nonprofit Moab Youth Cycling offers local elementary and middle school aged kids an opportunity to improve their mountain biking skills on area trails. “It’s a non-competitive group,” said Peter Basinger, founder of…
The View: The Harbingers of Spring
It’s finally warming up here in Moab and on the Slickrock Trail. I was riding the Slickrock Trail on a Sunday afternoon when I met up with two 15-year-old bicyclists. They were about…
New mountain biking trail opens in Sand Flats
A new mountain biking trail opened in the Moab area on the last Saturday in February. Volunteers and employees from the Bureau of Land Management and the Grand County Division of Active Transportation…
Locals opposed to Sand Flats drilling, Trump ‘energy-first’ stance hold national call
Updated 2/20/20: In a statement, the Governor’s Office stated that “The Governor appreciates the unique beauty of the Slickrock area and wants to ensure that nothing is done that would be detrimental to the…
Iconic local bike trail turns fifty: Slickrock Trail is “living history” of Moab
“A lot of people say that the Slickrock bike trail is what first put Moab on the map,” said Andrea Brand, who has been the director of the Sand Flats Recreation Area for…