Fruita, CO

Coming to Fruita for the second time was a lot more fun than the first time. It may have been because we did better trails or because we stayed in a house. Last time we went to Fruita we stayed in a hotel which was both small and limiting. In addition I rode my dad’s Hei Hei, and he rode my Scalpel, so it was a lot easier. Besides having bigger wheels the Hei Hei has a bigger frame and better working gears. My bike is tiny, and the gears can jam. In a way the riding there reminded me of Sedona. Admittedly Sedona was harder with more hills and rocks, but besides that it was very similar. There was a lot of flowy down hills and beautiful rocks that I tried to climb.

Our first ride was in the afternoon. I had to do school work for the first half of the day, then we went biking. Since it was late we went on a relatively short trail that followed the Colorado River along the top of a gorge. When we were done we went home and went to bed.

For the next few days I did school, then we left early in the morning to bike again. That day we did a warm up loop that was the easiest out of all of them. At one point we had stopped at the top of a hill, and we saw this little kid fly by. He couldn’t have been more than five or six, but he went down the hill in back of his mom and apparently couldn’t slow down enough, so to avoid hitting his mom, he veered off the track and hit a rock the same size as him head on. There was honestly no way you could watch that and not cringe. As it turned out after a minute he was fine which was impressive. If I had hit that hard I would be bawling for hours. After the warm up we went out on a trail that led almost to the end of the area and did a loop there. That trail was my favorite because there was a lot of tricky rocks and great views.

That was all the biking we did in Fruita, and overall it is one of my favorite places that I have ever been right up there with Slickrock and Sedona. If anyone finds themselves in the vicinity I would very strongly recommend going.