(Almost) Everything You Need to Know About Mountain Biking Moab
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Wait, that’s Moab? If this photo of verdant fields and leafy Aspen trees in Moab strikes you as surprising, then you definitely need to tune in to this episode of the Singletracks podcast! We recently named Moab, UT as the mountain bike capital of the USA and today we talk about some of our favorite trails in the area plus share our tips for planning a trip to this must-ride destination.
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| 0:20.0 | Hey everybody, welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today's me Jeff and I'm Until the 2nd of February. From 11am, includes one pre-selected book or toy, whilst dots last. |
| 0:26.3 | Hey, everybody. Welcome to the single tracks podcast. Today's me, Jeff, and I'm here with Aaron and Greg, |
| 0:34.1 | and we're going to be talking today about Moab, Utah. So if you saw our article today, we just released a list of 50 of the state mountain bike capitals in the USA. |
| 0:40.3 | And along with that, we named a national mountain bike capital, which happens to be Moab. |
| 0:45.7 | So we thought we'd talk about that selection and give some info about Moab from our experiences riding there over the years. |
| 0:54.0 | So I want to start off by asking, |
| 0:55.7 | what makes Moab so special? I'd say there's three things that make Moab special. One being the |
| 1:01.6 | quality of trails, two being the variety of trails, and three being the history of Moab. It's been |
| 1:09.5 | a mecca, a big destination for mountain bikers for over a |
| 1:15.1 | couple decades now probably, and the place just continues to get better. So I think it's, you know, |
| 1:21.0 | it's those three things that make it stand out as kind of the, like as the article says, the |
| 1:27.4 | mountain bike capital of the U.S. |
| 1:29.4 | Yeah, you mentioned the history of mountain bikers in Moab. |
| 1:32.3 | I actually looked it up and Slick Rock was laid out as a trail in 1969. |
| 1:38.7 | It was originally for motorcycles, but even then it was open to bikes and people started |
| 1:43.7 | riding mountain bikes there pretty soon |
| 1:45.8 | after it was laid out so yeah definitely been a place mountain bikers have been flocking for a long |
| 1:50.8 | time yeah i was going to mention the history as well because you're talking about it being a motorcycle |
| 1:56.3 | trail 69 like there weren't very many um destinations back then like tourism wasn't nearly as big of an |
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