Trips in Utah - bikepacking group out of Salt Lake

[VermontGal]

Hi All,

We have a meetup group out of Salt Lake City UT with over 60 people interested in bicycle touring and bikepacking.  This group is trying to do at least one overnight / weekend trip per month during good weather.  We currently have members along the Wasatch front from Ogden to Provo, and a couple out-of-staters who have said they might try to connect with us on trips.

In addition to running actual trips, the group is doing one evening social -- varying between a meet & gab (with beer), more formal presentation, or potluck picnic by bicycle.

Our weekend trips tend to be modest in mileage and difficulty.  The focus is on the adventure, and the ability to get away to a beautiful part of Utah to go camping by bicycle (how awesome is that!!).  We don't tend to be super-hard core or adrenaline junkies.

If you're interested in connecting - http://www.meetup.com/SLC-Bicycle-Touring-and-Bikepacking/

I'll post a list of potential upcoming trips to this thread when I have a little more time.

[ImAFred]

For a three day trip you should look into the Dixie lite...
http://www.bikepacking.net/forum/index.php/topic,3070.msg46518.html#new

[VermontGal]

Hi all, just updating this thread.  We have been doing about 1 trip a month, sometimes two.

In the past year, we've been to:

• Uintas - a couple different places.  Whitney Reservoir, Washington Lake area, and North Slope / Blacks Fork River.
• Cathedral Valley / Capitol Reef National Park
• Cedar Mesa - lots of petroglyphs and ruins
• Lockhart Basin
• Wasatch Crest Trail
• Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge / circumnavigation of the Fish Springs Range
• Cedar Mountains just south of the Salt Flats
• Silver Island Mountains
• Skyline Drive, Reeder Canyon and Joe's Valley in the La Sal Manti National Forest
• Topaz Mountain and the Thomas Range - gemstone prospecting by bike
• Diamond Fork Hot Springs and Strawberry Ridge

We have upcoming trips planned for:

• Grand Canyon North Rim / Rainbow Rim / AZ Trail - in late September
• Peter Sinks - one of the coldest "cold pockets" in the lower 48 - date TBD
• Book Cliffs
• La Sal mountains

More trips will be coming.  We mostly do overnights or two-nighters, and have also added fat biking as part of our group.  If anyone is interested, please do take a look and sign up.  We have several members in Colorado, and further afield.   http://www.meetup.com/SLC-Bicycle-Touring-and-Bikepacking/

[Lentamentalisk]

Hi, I'm going to be coming through your lovely state (SLC to be precise) at the end of September for a business trip. I thought I might as well pack in some bikepacking while I'm out. I'd love to do something on the S24O to long overnight range (15-70mi each day), leaving right out of downtown, into the wild.

Do you have any suggestions for where to start looking? Are there good routes, or huts I should plan around, or local hazards, or I've never been to Utah, so I have no idea what I'm getting into.

Thanks!