Einführendes Mountainbike-Abenteuer in Moab Courthouse

We were in town for a couple of days with our teenage kids and wanted to ride Slick Rock. As fairly experienced mountain bikers, I was a little skeptical about booking a tour over just renting bikes and riding. But I am so glad we did! Slick Rock is completely unique to anything else we have ever ridden before, and our guide Jeff was amazing. To have a local guide you round the trail and show you the best sections to session and where to stop for views etc just took the whole experience to another level. The bikes and equipment were top level and way better than if we had had just “rented” and ridden. The overall cost was barely more than just renting anyway, so the value for money was awesome. I cannot recommend this enough, even for experienced riders.

Did the "beginner/introductory" bike trail. Wouldn't suggest it for kids even though the video shows kids on the trail. I had expected a wide Jeep road with few ups and downs and not many rocks - it's not that. The trail has a few short ups and downs but you will ride on slick rock a lot of the way. There are a few spots where you have to negotiate larger rocks in the trail. If you are comfortable on a bike you will do fine. It is about a four hour day but that is taken up with driving to the site (15 minutes), safety and bike information (the bikes are fabulous), etc. When you are on the ride the guide will stop frequently to show you what obstacle is next and show you how to ride it, to take a few pictures, to give you a chance to catch your breath. I have ridden mountain bikes a couple of times so was very comfortable on this ride. Take more water than you think you will need. I liked using my hydration pack rather than just using a water bottle that is attached to the bike. If you don't have a level of endurance this might not be for you. Our guide Jeff was fabulous. It was fun, exciting, a little challenging and I had a blast!

We actually booked this tour through the Moab Adventure Center, but learned afterwards that the tour is actually run by Rim Tours. I had some issues with hour Moab AC advertised the tour so I won't recommend them but I highly recommend Rim Tours because the tour itself was excellent. We did the tour for our family of four including 2 kids aged 5 and 8. I wish we had booked directly with Rim Tours because I see on their website that you can pay a little extra (actually cheaper than what we paid through Moab AC) for the tour to be completely private. This would have been better for us since we had 2 young kids. Because we didn't know of this option we had 2 additional riders with us, and adult son and father. The guide did a great job of trying to cater to everyone but he pulled the plug pretty quickly on our 5 yo because we didn't want to hold up the group. He and my husband stayed behind and enjoyed the pump track area so it was fine in the end but I think if it had just been the four of us we could have spent more time getting the 5 yo used to the new bike and terrain. Our friends had done this tour a week before us with the same aged kids and the youngest a less experienced rider than my 5 yo and they had this experience since their tour was private. Lesson learned folks, book directly through Rim Tours and pay extra for the private if you have young kids! Now all that being said, we thoroughly enjoyed our tour. Our guide was fantastic and so kind. My 8 yo was over the moon and I had a blast with him. Highly recommend!