2022 Mountain Bike Trip – Day 1 – to Flint Seep Campground

With two vans loaded and ready to go early Tuesday morning, we headed three hours south of Green River to the Hans Flat Ranger Station in the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. At this point the van with the bikes and guests dropped everything off and left us with the support van with all the food and gear. Our guides, Jack and Ben, checked in with the rangers and once again, our plans ended up changing due to the impending rainstorm.

Our route for today ended up about 18 miles total as we pedaled out to the Millard Canyon Overlook, got rained on for about 45 minutes, ate lunch at the Bagpipe Butte Overlook while trying to dry out our raingear and then parked the van at our campsite for the evening – Camp Flint Seep. We then took a short ride out to look at the Flint Trail Overlook and “the “”The Neck.”

Supervising the unloading of the bikes in his new stylish mountain biking shorts.
Patrick and Mark watching the rainclouds roll in.
“If I put my raingear on it won’t rain, right?” WRONG
Millard Canyon
Lunch stop at the Bagpipe Butte Overlook using all available posts and trees to dry the rain gear. And no, the bikes do not have kickstands!
The infamous Flint Trail Switchbacks which we would be tackling the following day. A bit of walking involved as it was both steep and rocky in places.
Hey, who cut off our legs?
David surveying the route.
“Hello” “Can you see me over here?”
Joel and Mark on “The Neck.”

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