DIRTY ATHLETE

I have whizzed through Fruita Colorado several times in the past years, heading east to west or west to east on I70.  Not even knowing that some of the sweetest single track was hidden around Fruita.

Lately though I had been hearing about it and was determined to stop off for a ride the next time through.  Well that day finally came and even though I only got to do a few rides, I realize this is a place I will be coming back to explore.

The riding there is amazing and you know its going be when there are two bikes stores in a town that has like four restaurants.

Fruita is not a big town, but it is a nice town, clean and friendly from what I found.

I decided to hit up a few of the classic single track rides there like:

Zippity Do Da

This is a roller coaster type of a ride, a lot of up and down.  The trail is on the top ridge of the “mt” top.  I don’t think it is quite high enough to be classified as an actual mountain, but when you looking over the edge, you find yourself high enough up that one false move would be likely the end of things for you. There is a reason this ride is considered a double black diamond here, it shouldn’t be ridden if you are a beginner rider.

It isn’t so much a technical trail as it is high and on a windy crumbling edge.  It really was quite windy up there and there are some steep quick down hills that flow into a steep little uphill.  The reason why you don’t want to ride this if your not ready for it, is because you may try and walk some of the trail, but that is a big mistake, for a couple reason: First there isn’t much room to walk and push you bike, your literally on the trails edge, several 100 feet up high and there are not many bail out options to get off the trail.  Secondly, it highly damages the trail condition, because the dirt and sand there is very fragile and when you try to walk on the dirty, the trail crumbles away and off the sides.

Another easier and supper fun run to try out is kessels, really I don’t think there could be a much more fun and fast single track ride around.  This is such a fun ride to do you will find yourself smiling all the way down.

Kessels Run

Kessels is fast and curvy ride, its definitely worth hitting up if your cruising through Fruita.

Overall

There is so much to explore in Fruita as far as mountain biking goes and different types of riding your have dirty single track on one side of town and more rocky Moab feeling on the other side.  Another perk is the camping is free there!  This may be going away soon if the laws change, lets hope not.  I will definately be back for some riding in the fall time, when its not over a 100 degrees there.

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