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Looking back down Long Canyon
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A dark exposure to show the clouds and La Sal Mountains.
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Zoomed in to for a better view of the La Sal Mountains and the fins between here and there.
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A small rock has fallen on the Long Canyon Road up towards Pucker Pass
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There's still enough room for jeeps to make it through, but it's pretty rocky underneath
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View from the balcony of the Visitors' Center in Dead Horse Point State Park
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Panorama from the overlook near the Visitors' Center in Dead Horse Point State Park
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Zoomed in view of the potash evaporation ponds. I'll ride by those on the way back to Moab
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The Dead Horse Point Overlook has a stunning view of the Colorado River
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There's a boat in the river way down there!
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The view from Dead Horse Point overlook...
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... and the plaque that describes how the landscape formed.
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Those people are much closer to the edge that I would be comfortable with!
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Another panorama from Dead Horse Point overlook. You can see Potash Road, on this side of the river, that I'll be taking to get back to Moab.
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A closer look at Potash Road
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You can also see Shafer Trail that comes down from the mesa and connects to Potash Road
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A more zoomed in view of Shafer Trail. You can see a couple of the switchbacks at the upper-left.
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After a lot of riding, I got to the top of the switchback road that leads to Mineral Bottom.
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A look down the switchbacks. The road is broad and pretty smooth.
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Mineral Bottom, beside the Colorado River
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A 180-degree panorama of the Colorado River at Mineral Bottom
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Mountain bikers riding up from Mineral Bottom
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There are lots of mountain bikers coming up!
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A Lexus going down
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The mountain bikers have ridden the White Rim Road all the way around from the Shafer Trail
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It took 4 days for them to ride all the way around, and now they're almost at the end of their trip! I hope their escort vehicles have lots of cold beer to celebrate!
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A lot more riding gets me to the Shafer Trail
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From this vantage point, you can see the top of the switchbacks that lead down to Potash Road (and also White Rim Road).
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Potash Road heads towards Moab where the weather doesn't look so good
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Potash Road from the bottom of the Shafer Trail
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View of the Colorado River from Potash Road. It was a much better view from Dead Horse Point which is somewhere above me at this point.
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The weather looks pretty dark towards Moab.
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A panorama of a potash evaporation pond. They add color to the water to make it evaporate faster.
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The Colorado River from Gold Bar on Hwy 279, on the way back to Moab
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Giant fossilized sand dunes seen from Gold Bar
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