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Day 63: Personal Reckoning
Milford, UT -> Baker, NV; 83.4 mi; 4,414ft By now, you, my dear reader, may have heard us describe the Spokes 2025 journey in terms of TV show seasons (if you haven’t, it’s because my teammates haven’t published their blogs yet). We are currently well into Season 4, which I predict will be a season
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Day 62: Elapsed Time Warriors
Lava Point Campground, UT to Milford, UT — 89.5 mi, 3,849 ft I’m exhausted when I wake up at 7:30am, which is entirely my fault because camping seems to bring out the insomnia demon within me. After packing up the tent and my belongings, I head to the campground table to make some brekkie. Greta
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Day 61: The Legendary Metal Dorito
Zion, UT -> Lava Point Campground, UT — 29.75 mi, 4,975 ft Hi hi, It’s Joseph again with a blog for the shortest mileage day of the trip! Don’t be fooled though, today was anything but short. It was also the day with the largest single climb of the trip… It was a great start
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Day 60: maybe paradise is a laundromat in utah
Zion, UT – 0mi, 0ft It’s 9:35pm. Charles and I are sitting in TABS laundromat in Hurricane, UT, listening to the hissing, humming, and squeaking of Speed Queen Commercial Washers. I recently returned from a 20 minute quest to acquire quarters spanning Pizza Hut, Ernie’s General Store, Taco Bell, Little Caesar’s, and Alfredos. Said quarters
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day 58: running it back 🏜️
Bryce Canyon, UT to Bryce Canyon, UT — 0 mi, 0 ft hello from the absolutely STUNNING bryce canyon, utah! sarah is back to tell you about our rest day adventures in this gorgeous park!!! 🧡 after a well-deserved late wake-up for the previous day’s bikers in the campground (i drove the day before), we
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Day 57: a nice day to Bryce
Escalante, UT -> Bryce Canyon National Park, UT, 51.5 mi, 4290 ft This was in many regards a standard Spokes day. We took our time in the morning, rested well at rest stops, but somehow made it to the end before dark. So, without major events to recount, I will show you all the pictures
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Day 55: Entering Dark Sky Zone
Today’s blog begins with Ishaq’s anecdote from the middle of the night. He woke up to what he thought was Tian’s (my) new, unlocked snoring pattern. He shone a light outside his tent and saw 3 raccoons on the tree next to him. Never in his life has he been so close to a raccoon.
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Day 54: we might be on mars
Green River State Park, UT to Capitol Reef National Park, UT — 94.4 mi, 4,440 ft Ishaq is driving today, which means his strategy for waking people up is to yap loudly until we get too annoyed to stay in our tents. He’s been in his blasting Alvin and the Chipmunks out the speaker era,
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Day 53: Mother of All Bicycles
Moab, UT -> Green River, UT — 56.8mi, 1900ft It’s that time of the week again, its Joseph’s blogging day! But it’s also my driving day, woot woot. This morning, we would finally leave the Schmitt’s, who pretty much enabled us to go full vacation mode while in Moab. It would be back to reality
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Day 52: candyland?? canyonlands!
“Greta, do you fear being 3 blogs behind?” Tian asked me this the last time I was two, almost three, blogs behind. Yes. Yes I am. Unfortunately, today officially marks my descent into “three blogs behind” territory. BUT I am determined it will also be my last day on the dark playground of blog procrastination.
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