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here. It's nothing dirty, I promise.
I wrote that page in 1997 or 1998 when I was 14 or 15 years old and I'm astonished that it still exists. I'm not sure what the intent really was, probably me expressing how happy I was to have my first decent mountain bike, but it reads very much like the bike catalogs I used to obsess over when I was a teenager. Not to say that I've come very far, writing-wise, in the intervening years. In any case, I first read the word "Moab" on the side a bike frame and ever since, it's been a place that I wanted to visit if I ever got the chance.
That chance came a few weeks ago, where I had a few days alone to explore a small part of the desert around Moab. I don't really bike any more, but running served me just as well.
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| The day dawns ripe over the LaSal Mountains |
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| The Colorado River from Deadhorse Point at sunrise. |
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| LaSal Range from Dead Horse Point |
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| Descending Upheaval Canyon |
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| Just right; 50s during the day, below freezing at night. |
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| Moses and Zues |
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| Taylor Canyon |
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| Shadows |
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| Alone but not |
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| No wind and silent but for the ringing in my ears. |
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| Island in the Sky - Canyonlands N.P. |
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| Island in the Sky - Canyonlands N.P. |
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| Island in the Sky - Canyonlands N.P. |
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| It's a rental. I swear I don't have bad credit. |
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| Devil's Garden - Arches N.P. |
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| Devil's Garden - Arches N.P. |
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| Devil's Garden - Arches N.P. |
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| Delicate Arch - Arches N.P. |
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| Delicate Arch - Arches N.P. |
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| Wall Street - Acrches N.P, |
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| Petrified sand dunes - Slickrock Trail |
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| Newspaper Rock |
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| Elephant Canyon, Needles District - Canyonlands N.P, |
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| Chesler Park - Needles |
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| Blue sky in the Needles |
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| Joint Trail - Needles |
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| Slot Canyon |
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| I'll miss you too |
I still have the bike.
