{"id":826,"date":"2009-11-11T07:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/?p=826"},"modified":"2017-10-16T22:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T04:23:26","slug":"tr-riding-in-fruita-8-nov-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/tr-riding-in-fruita-8-nov-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"TR: Riding in Fruita (8 Nov 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After riding the Lunch Loops in Grand Junction on Saturday, Frank and I headed over to more familiar terrain for Sunday&#8217;s ride.  The Loma exit offers some of my favorite trails in the Fruita area.  It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve been able to ride them, though.  But, this trip reminded me of just how much I love the trails there and enjoy riding in Fruita.<\/p>\n<p>Sunny, 70-degree weather and a nice breeze mixed with trails that are in great shape creates the perfect recipe for spectacular ride.  Here&#8217;s a few pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7033.JPG\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7035.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0409frank.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0440frank.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7036.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7040.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0464frank.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0466frank.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7041.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7042.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_7058.JPG\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Taking a moment to enjoy the wonderful views carved by the Colorado River from the Mack Ridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0467scenic.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Great views of the trails below.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0468scenic.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mack Ridge.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0470mackridge.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0472scenic.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lovely Colorado.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/gjfruita_78nov2009\/IMG_0474scenic.jpg\" alt=\"Mountain Biking in Fruita, CO\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I left Fruita with the reminder of just how much I enjoy riding in this area.  I should definitely make an effort to ride there more often!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After riding the Lunch Loops in Grand Junction on Saturday, Frank and I headed over to more familiar terrain for Sunday&#8217;s ride.  The Loma exit offers some of my favorite trails in the Fruita area.  It&#8217;s been a long time since I&#8217;ve been able to ride them, though.  But, this trip reminded me of just how much I love the trails there and enjoy riding in Fruita.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biking","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":430620,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/430620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/14erskiers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}