Arizona Day 1 - South Mountain

I'm going to keep this short because I'm using Mark's (UTRider) laptop and he needs to do his blog entry too.

I flew into Phoenix today, Mark picked me up and we headed straight to South Mountain to try our hand at the National trail on South Mountain. I knew from the web that it was burly, and indeed it was. I walked a bunch but rode some techie stuff that pleased me. Hard to ask for better weather, low 70s and overcast. I'll write more later, or just let the photos do the talking - beginning with the obligatory tourist cactus shot:











After a quick run to In-n-Out for fuel, we hit the Deseret Classic trail - a nice rolling single-track along the east side of South Mountain: