IntrepidXJ's Adventure Weblog

Here’s a little something for both my Jeep and my bike! I have been planning on getting a rack for my bike that will work with the spare tire carrier on my Jeep (so I can go exploring on my Jeep and bike in the same trip). I know my friend Alex in Albuquerque had some pictures of his Jeep with a similar setup, so I asked him about it. He told me that it was just collecting dust in his garage since he moved his spare tire inside the Jeep, so he offered it to me at a good price. I took him up on the offer, and it showed up yesterday. Looks like it will work great for me.

The rack is very easy to quickly install and take off, and keeps my bike high up off the ground, so I shouldn’t have any issues with it back there while I am exploring up to moderate trails.

Having neglected my Jeep for the past year because of a lack of a garage, it is time for me to get started fixing a few things before my exploring season really starts to pick up. I washed my Jeep today and pulled it into the new garage…where it will probably be for a couple of weeks…

I’ll be updating my progress as I go…

After adding the new accessories to my bike, I headed out for a ride on the Colorado River Trail. It was a nice sunny day and the temperature was somewhere above 50 degrees. Here’s a few pictures…

Stopped near the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad bridge

Unpaved portion of the trail

Grand Mesa in the distance

The rest of my birthday presents showed up, along with a few items I also ordered for myself…

Overall shot taken today….added the Sette quick release fenders, water bottle holders and the small pack up by the handlebars (great for holding my camera).

I also added a mount for my Garmin Oregon GPS

There is also a Crank Brothers multi tool and a spare 29″ tube in the pack under my seat now, too

I ordered some books from Amazon a little bit back, and they finally showed up today. I should be set for reading now for a little while

Canyonlands National Park: Early History and First Descriptions by F.A. Barnes

The Dominguez Escalante Journal: Their Expedition Through Colorado Utah Arizona and New Mexico in 1776 by Ted J. Warner

…and finally a little fiction: Hayduke Lives!: A Novel by Edward Abbey

While we were in Moab on Monday I couldn’t resist stopping and picking up a couple of new books

This time I grabbed Outlaw Tales of Utah by Michael Rutter

…and also The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons by John Wesley Powell

Just a few HDR photos I took yesterday while geocaching.

Since Amanda and I both had the day off from work, we headed off to do some geocaching around Moab. After finding a few caches on our way there, we had a late lunch at the Moab Brewery and stopped at a bookstore before heading home. Of course, we stopped and found a few more caches on our way home, too

Enjoy some photos from the day!

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Eagle Rim Park

Took my bike for a short trip to Eagle Rim Park today in order to test out my new bike computer, which seems to be working well.