San Rafael Swell MTB Trip – Day 4

Sadly, our grand adventure will come to an end. I had pretty close to 90 miles on the odometer for our total trip and on the last day we meandered down towards and around Temple Mountain. It was an amazing ride as for the first time we had a massive, sustained tailwind AND a downhill. My Garmin clocked a fast 27 mph on one section – the trail was pretty good but there was a bit of slamming around on the undercarriage (both mine and the bike) but after three days of headwind, not much to complain about!

We started off by seeing another herd of wild horses who were again a bit wary of people. But beautiful!

Then we headed out towards Family Butte again.

Family Butte
Alison with the ever-present SAG wagon close behind!

We stopped for snacks and water before the van headed down the alternate route to our pick-up/lunch point.

Downhill, with a tailwind – MAGICAL!
Beatrice approaching Temple Mountain.
One of the few steep and rocky sections where it made sense to take the bike for a hike!
Lots of abandoned, old cars. Seems most had bullet holes in them so obviously the redneck pastime of shooting cars was alive and well in Southern Utah.

We had our last lunch and awaited our pick up back to Green River. An amazing time was had by all and we look forward to the next Holiday River Expedition trip!

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