Fruita, CO

Our visit to Fruita was very unexpected. Our original plan had been to go straight from Alta to Aspen. Instead we decided to make a stop in Fruita because it was on the way, and the mountain biking there is famous. When we arrived we checked into a Comfort Inn, got some food from a nearby Chinese restaurant, and passed out.

The next day we went out biking. The trails were amazing in most places, unfortunately they were on a pasture most of the time, so sections of the trail there were riddled with holes from cow feet.  Our first trail that we took was called Prime Cut. Prime Cut is a trail that goes to the top of a hill. Off the top there are a lot of flowy trails coming back to the base of Prime Cut. After going up Prime Cut we came down Kessel Run because I really like Star Wars. Everyone brace yourselves because if you don’t know Star Wars this will be confusing. In episode 4 “A New 
Hope” Han Solo says that he made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs. This alone is confusing because the Kessel Run is a smuggling route that is a fixed distance, and a parsec is a unit of distance, but right now that doesn’t matter. My point is that 12 parsecs is equal to 230,100,000,000,000, or 2.301e14 miles. In the Star Wars universe that was the record. My run was only 2.3 miles. Take that Han Solo. After Kessel Run we took Prime Cut up again and went on a trail called Pumps, Bumps, and Rollers. The joke behind that trail is that the initials are PBR, as in PBR beer.  The only bad thing was that on PBR I got a BUI (Biking Under the Influence), then I was all like OMG totes no fair.  After PBR we went a completely different direction. This time we went on West Zippity and passed by Zippity Do Da. After the Zipitys we went down Joe’s Ridge and came off on the bottom half of Kesssel Run.

The next day I just stayed back and worked on school work while my parents went biking. At about noon we packed up and left. Luckily we are planning to come again in about a week on our way to Telluride, so we can explore more of the trails.