North Rim Grand Canyon Mountain Biking Pictures

These are pictures from the second Rim Tours trip I went on with the Polak. This is the north rim of the Grand Canyon. I thought the White Rim Trail (pictures of that trip begin after the Grand Canyon pictures and a sample can be seen here) was much better in all regards, but it was still a great trip. The Grand Canyon part of the ride was fantastic. The pine forest part of the ride was just good. It wasn't Rim Tours' fault at all, just that when you've been to the White Rim it's hard to get much better.

Of course, the fact that the Polak shed his own blood on this trip made up some of the difference.



Oh my...this was pure heaven. This is the trail along the north rim of the Grand Canyon. It was recently built and it makes up for some of the less interesting parts of the ride in the pine forest outside of the north rim. Perfect width, not too technical, nice winding and rolling trail. This goes along the rim of the Grand Canyon. 

PICK UP THE BIKE! 

Utah or Arizona? 

Some of these pictures look a lot like others. 

This is my idea of beauty.  

I really liked the scenery here. 

If you look carefully, those hills form a snake... 

Sorta looks like Utah! 

Here's the way my mind works...the first thing I thought was: If I had my 7mm at this point I could have taken them all out.  

Fuck hotels and cities. Give me a forest, a tent and a Santa Cruz Superlight. 

I had to take a piss break and decided to take a picture of the guys waiting for me rather than of the obvious. 

This was a LOT of fun. 

I liked riding this part of the pine forest.  

They even have signs in the Grand Canyon. 

At a certain point we had to actually ride on a road to get back on the trail to the north rim of the Grand Canyon. This was that point. I think it was a few miles, at most.  

That kid bugged me. Teenagers shouldn't go on these trips. 

Damn clouds. 

BEHOLD, ICH! 

I took this picture hoping it would become part of the Rim Tours website. 

We did NOT ride down into the canyon. Just along the rim. 

It's Grand! 

I swear I've seen this before. 

Polak and I are not the most aggressive downhill riders. However, before we got to the rim trail we rode down some fairly rocky areas in the pine forest. At one point, Polak flew by me at a speed that I thought was unusually fast for us. I mumbled "he's going to crash" as I poked along down the trail. A few minutes later, I caught up to him as he lay among the sharp rocks, bike tangled in his monkey limbs, blood seeping out of several wounds.  

This must be what the world looks like to a Democrat. 

Sundown or sunrise?