DEEP TROUBLE: Rider Down Utah
Adventure Rider Radio - A Motorcycle Podcast
Canoe West Media
4.9 • 915 Ratings
🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Cody Weber and a small group of experienced motorcycle riders set out on a planned day ride near Green River, Utah, traveling through canyon country, dry riverbeds, and remote desert terrain. The ride appeared well prepared: riders who knew each other, a route that seemed manageable, and time taken beforehand to organize motorcycles, gear, supplies, and navigation.
What unfolded next isn’t unusual in the world of adventure motorcycling. Terrain gets misread, bikes go down, and riders get injured—especially in remote environments like Utah’s canyonlands. What makes this story worth paying attention to is not the crash itself, but what happened afterward.
In the minutes and hours following the accident, a series of decisions were made under pressure, shaped by limited information, physical injury, environmental conditions, and the realities of being far from help. Those decisions made sense at the time—but they also raise important questions about risk assessment, group dynamics, emergency response, and decision-making in remote motorcycle travel.
This story offers practical lessons for riders who travel off-road and in isolated areas: what to consider after a crash, how judgment can shift under stress, and what might be done differently when plans unravel. It’s a reminder that preparation doesn’t end when the ride begins—and that the most critical moments often come after everything goes wrong.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we've got another of our Deep Trouble series. Deep Trouble is an exclusive series found only here on Adventure Rider Radio. |
| 0:06.7 | It's stories from riders that have experienced catastrophes, breakdowns, being lost, injuries, or other issues that have led them into deep trouble. |
| 0:13.7 | And of course, no one wants to run into trouble. But if there was no threat to dodge, no line in the sand to skirt, no precipitous edge to approach, |
| 0:21.4 | there would be no adventure. And because adventure lives in that gray zone between safety and danger, |
| 0:26.9 | it's all about riding that gray zone, your gray zone, whatever it is for you. And our deep trouble |
| 0:31.8 | series is about helping you ride in the gray zone without crossing into danger by hearing |
| 0:36.4 | stories of those who have had trouble, |
| 0:38.6 | struggled and returned with lessons for all of us on how to avoid it ourselves or maybe how to |
| 0:42.4 | deal with it if we actually do find ourselves in a situation. On this episode of Deep Trouble, |
| 0:47.1 | we've got Cody Weber from Utah. Now, Cody and a small group of friends headed out on a day |
| 0:52.0 | ride from Green River, Utah. They were going to ride |
| 0:54.6 | canyon terrain, dry river beds. It's a ride that appeared well thought out. I mean, the plan was |
| 0:59.6 | simple enough. The riders knew each other well, and the group took time to organize their gear, |
| 1:03.8 | their supplies, even navigation before they actually started on the trail. What happened out there |
| 1:08.8 | wasn't unusual in itself. I mean, riders misjudged terrain, |
| 1:12.5 | bikes go down, people get hurt. What makes this story worth paying attention to is what came after |
| 1:18.4 | the crash. The decisions that were made in the minutes and hours that followed, why those decisions |
| 1:23.8 | made sense at the time and what we can learn from them or perhaps what could |
| 1:28.1 | have been done differently. As with all of our Deep Trouble series, it isn't about judging choices |
| 1:34.3 | after the fact. It's about understanding how quickly a situation can change, how pressure and |
| 1:40.7 | urgency shape our thinking. And what we can learn from someone who's willing to walk |
| 1:45.0 | back through their experience honestly, knowing that doing so means opening themselves up to the |
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