{"id":3956,"date":"2013-04-16T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T02:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=3956"},"modified":"2014-02-08T22:45:14","modified_gmt":"2014-02-09T04:45:14","slug":"moab-8-slickrock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evilmoose.me\/?p=3956","title":{"rendered":"Moab 8: Slickrock!"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a morning spent in an RV, waiting for the rain to clear (we didn’t just break into an RV, it belonged to friends who turned up for a night, honestly) we decided to head out and ride the Slickrock trail. But not before experiencing the strange taste sensation of garlic pancakes. Not only were they garlic-flavoured pancakes, but they were unintentionally garlic-flavoured pancakes, with no known source for the garlic. The pot didn’t taste of garlic, the raw pancake powder didn’t taste of garlic, the milk didn’t taste of garlic, the butter used in the pan wasn’t garlic butter. And yet we were faced with pancake after pancake with a strong garlic flavour.<\/p>\n

Turning our thoughts away from garlic pancakes, we wandered a couple of hundred metres down the road to ride the famous Slickrock trail.<\/p>\n

Firstly, let me clear up something. “Slickrock” is not terribly slick, it’s actually sandstone, and quite grippy. The slickrock on the Slickrock trail is Navajo Sandstone.The entire trail just follows white painted dashes on the rock, and apart from a few dives into brief pits of sand, is basically all riding on rock. The trail was originally developed in 1969 for motorcycles, so you’re not supposed to glare at them too much when they come revving past you. We didn’t run into many though, and they were all very friendly anyway. There’s another trail for 4x4s which criss-crosses through the same area, so you’re liable to see Jeeps posing silhouetted on the top of rock hummocks as well. That about covers it I think. <\/p>\n

Without further ado, here are the photos (photos of me courtesy of Greban). They’re all fairly self-explanatory and involve people riding bikes on rock, so please mentally caption them yourselves…<\/p>\n

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Distance biked:<\/strong> 16.9 km
\nElevation gain:<\/strong> 348 m<\/p>\n

Note:<\/strong> The garlic pancake mystery was later solved when it was revealed that there was an extra ingredient added to the batter – an oil which was garlic infused. So the RV wasn’t psychotropic, and the pancakes really were garlic-flavoured. I don’t recommend it to anyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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