18 Road Mountain Bike

 Exploring. I ended up going about twice as far as I wanted to today but I did learn a little bit more. I started on the dirt road North of the parking area. I then went North on Western Zippity and headed out to Sarlector. This was all new to me. Eventually I came out on 16 road and went South. I wasn't sure how to get back but eventually found V 8/10 that took me to V 7/10. This day was about 2/3 mountain bike trails and 1/3 dirt road. A strange area right at the base of the Book Cliffs.

The route:

County Road V 7/10 to Western Zippity N to Front side NW to Sarlector to 16 road to V 8/10 to V 7/10 to Western Zippity S to Zip Off. 

First a picture in the front yard:

Ribbon Trail - BLM

 This is a great hike that we have done before. Different than most hikes in the area. Big "fields" of slick rock for the first mile turning into red and white sand stone turning into canyon. The forecast I saw was for rain at 2:00. They were exactly right this time. We got back to the car just before 2:00 and it started raining. There was thunder while we were out on the giant fields of open rock which was exciting but we could tell the storm was far enough away. By the time the storm was close we were back in the sand stone area. This is also a mountain biking trail which would be pretty crazy.

Blue Lakes Trailhead

 I could see this area from Quandary Peak. It looked nice with multiple lakes. After the Quandary hike I went to the Blue Lakes Trailhead which was only about 2 miles from the Quandary Peak trailhead. The area turned out nicer than it looked from above! Nice trails around two lakes and a pretty nice waterfall. 

Officers Gulch. Nice area right off the highway heading West from Frisco.