Failed Efforts at Daily updates

I couldn't bear to look at the "Day 1" Blog entry any longer.  It wouldn't have been so bad if we would have had a Day 2 through Day 10 entry.  Maybe next time there will be daily updates.

I kept the blog entry just to keep the pictures on the page



The Drive from Denver




Dead Horse Point





Couple of Badass Dudes(Not Pictured)





Canyonlands



0 problems checking bags (moab moab moab)

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Just Outside of Denver, in Wheat Ridge Colorado there is a place....

It's a magical place called Applejack Liquors.

I work with a guy who says he never goes to Denver without going to Applejack.

The reviews online say the selection there is the best in the west.  More beers in one building than you have ever seen anywhere else.  There could be some exaggeration going one there, but I personally don't think we should take a chance at missing out.  It is about 25 minutes from the airport just off 70 west.  I.e. It's on the way to Moab.  We are gonna need beer .....

For those of you with a GPS - Apple Jack Liquors 3320 Youngfield St, Wheat Ridge, CO 8003

http://www.applejack.com/

OMG!!!!

One of the biggest in the Nation!!!!!

Denver Oktoberfest

MOAB - Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb

The GBU-43/B is large, powerful and accurately delivered. high explosive. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb [MOAB] weapon is a 21,000 lbs total weight GPS-guided munition with fins and inertial gyro for pitch and roll control. It is probable that this munition was initially nick-named the "Mother Of All Bombs" with the retronymic expansion of MOAB following later.

2 HOURS SHOVING MY BIKE INTO AN 80" BOX (moab, moab, moab)

Research pays off!!!

Drunken sodomy, those Moabites know how to party.  Is Moab his own grandpa????

According to Genesis 19:30-38, Moab was the son of Abraham's nephew Lot by his elder daughter, while Ammon was Moab's half-brother by a similar union of Lot with his younger daughter after the destruction of Sodom. Having lost their fiancés and their mother in the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's daughters decided to continue their father's line through intercourse with their father. The elder got him drunk to facilitate the deed and conceived Moab. The younger daughter did the same and conceived a son named Ben-Ammi, who became ancestor to the Ammonites.  (couldn't they just find new boyfriends?)



And it goes a little something like this.....

Now many many years ago when I was twenty-three
I was married to a widow who was pretty as can be
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red
My father fell in love with her and soon they too were wed

Oh I'm my own grandpa
I'm my own granpa
It sounds funny I know,
But it really is so
Oh I'm my own grandpa

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life
My daughter was my mother 'cause she was my father's wife
To complicate the matter even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to Dad
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him br'ther
Of the widow's grown-up daughter who was also my stepmother

Father's wife then had a son who kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild, for he was my daughter's son
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue
Because altho' she is my wife, she's my grandmother too

Now if my wife is my grandmother, then I'm her grandchild
And every time I think of it, it nearly drives me wild
For now I have become the strangest case I ever saw
As husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa

3 NEW BREWPUBS (moab, moab, moab)

Sweet 4cast!!

Sovereign Saltwash Single track and Amassa Back

So I assume yunz guys haven't change your minds about Poison Spider Mesa and The Portal Trail.

GB and I have discussed a couple of alternate trips.

The First is a choice of multiple length Sovereign and Saltwash Loops.  The loop recommended in the link below is 10.5 miles from the trailhead. 

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/saltwash.htm

The Sovereign trials are listed as a Moab classic ride in my trail guide.  Another Classic ride is the Amassa Back.  The Amassa Back is ridden as an out and back and is a little shorter than the Sovereign Singletrack System

http://www.utahmountainbiking.com/trails/amassa.htm

That's all I have for now.  Has anybody looked into any optional - Non-mountain biking ideas?  GB - do you have the info on the VW "Museum?  Tara highly recommends the sunset jet-boat ride up the Colorado River. 

4 BEAT-UP RIIII-DERS!! (err... um.. days to moab)

38 X 32 X 8

5 BROKEN BONES (err... um.. days to moab)

6 NEW TRAILS (err... um.. days to moab)

7 FLAT TIRES (err... um.. days to moab)

8 STINKY GLOVES (err... um.. days to moab)

Pack List

Ok here's my initial pack list Moab Pack List
There are some things on there that we only need one of for the group (floor pump/air mattress/etc.) let me know what I'm missing.

9 GSBs (err... um.. days to moab)

10 POST-RIDE BEERS (err... um.. days to moab)