Sedona - Monday

Monday - Kris/Len/Jim went on a strenuous hike up Bear Mountain. Fran & Kevin took Pat & Larry on a "Pool" tour of the complex. 

Then, after a leisurely morning, Francine made Kevin go out for a short ride. She had been wanting to hit chuckwagon, except that the first mile is now totally overrun with hikers making their way to "Devils Bridge". There are so many people wanting to get their selfie at the bridge, that I guess one can wait an hour or more for your turn. The parking lot fills up, and there is parking on both sides of the road for almost a mile. 

we did not go here, but here is a picture 

So, we parked at the end of the almost 5 mile trail, rode in to the intersection where the hikers turn off to hike to the Devils Bridge trail and turned around. Lovely ride. Only saw about 4 friendly hikers on the in and back out portion. 

Started the ride by pedaling up Mescal trail to the right turn to descend Long Canyon trail. Crossed the road to start Chuckwagon (originally called Gunslinger by the locals bikers who originally built the bootleg trail). Generally climbed the now very obvious trail about 3.3 miles.

rains tonight should cause a bloom on the stalk

resting at top of a climb on Chuckwagon

wash on Chuckwagon

Kev jumping a ledge on Chuckwagon

Kev on Chuckwagon

At the turn-around point, we took a small break. Then retraced our steps back to the car. 8 miles.