Due to the warm weather in Southern Utah, I decided (and since the wife is gone for the rest of the week) I needed to get out and do a ride. I at first had a 250 miles ride planned, but decided to cut it short, so I only did 217 miles. But what a GREAT 217 miles, well some were! LOL
The big deal of it all was that I was able to ride up the ZION Canyon Road. That road is not open during the Spring to Fall months, except by one of their shuttles. But right now it is open to motor vehicles! What a great ride that road is.
Every where you look, it is straight up!
Ride thru ZION Canyon Road.
Besides ZION, I also rode the ST George Southern Parkway (which was the second part of my ride. The first being, riding from Cedar City, for 55 miles).
When I left Cedar City, after returning a book for Chris at the book store, it was 36F. By the time I got down to St George/Zion, it had climbed to 57F. As I rode thru to the East Gate of ZION, the temps dropped to 44F. And then back up to 55F as I dropped back down in elevation leaving the park.
I left Cedar around 11:30AM and returned home, after gassing up, right at 5PM.
Great fun ride!