RIDERS HAVE DIED HERE | Mountain Biking Gold Bar Rim & Portal Trail | Magnificent Moab Ep 6 

If you want to ride Portal without doing the whole Mag 7 (which left me exhausted by the time we got to Portal!), a good option is to climb up Poison Spider Mesa, which is 8 miles instead of the 19 miles that the first 6 of Mag 7 are!

"What do you think Matt?" LOL "I think I'm out of water!" (what you should have said) hahahahaha that was a fun one!

This is awesome. Love that this was edited like a real Moab ride with all the the stops and WTF moments, talking yourself into taking lines, and puckering up on the sketchy stuff. This is what MTB is about! Kudos for being real!

Ahhh! I so want to get up to Moab and ride this trail. Great presentation of the trail. 👍👍

For those unfamiliar with Moab riding, typical rocky steps and drops like 4:30 are everywhere, with consequences of failure mostly limited to the broken wrist/elbow/shoulder category - painful, embarrasing, typically tedious long slow hike to extricate oneself, hopefully aided by companions who can carry gear or push your bike for you if it helps. Dropoffs, ledges, slopes one can slither down for quite a ways can add agony, by degrees, but as helmets are mandatory (by logic, not law), you are more likely to survive than not. Adventurous day rides with modest risks, offset by grand vistas, mostly clean and amazingly high friction clean slickrock domes are the positives of the risk/reward equation, and as long as you don't grossly overestimate your skills or stamina, most emerge with little more than scrapes. Susceptibility to peer pressure, either applying or receiving, can get you in trouble. Accept that everyone can and likely will dismount somewhere, without apology, and you and your group will be fine. Poison Spider is a POS, for several reasons. First, as a very exposed and arduous hike, it was not particularly dangerous in ordinary circumstances and weather for healthy persons. As brave/foolhardy mountain bikers began riding it, most is no harder than the Porcupine Rim, but the exposure leaves zero margin for errors. At least two places where the trail constricts to force crucial, short technical maneuvers coincide with absolute vertical drops of a few hundred feet, 4-12 inches from your wheel path, or a couple or three feet if you opt to attempt a bunny hop over an off-camber boulder. Falling outward, there is simply no possibility for recovery or catching anything to stop. Although less obvious, longer traversing sections of trail are also close enough to dropoffs that a tumble could lead to a fatal plunge in those stretches as well. Last, probably due to the traffic over twenty years, the entire lower trail has broken into a rubble-strewn junkpile only hard core long-suspension geeks seem to appreciate. Actual crash potential is probably greater without the death exposure factor, but makes for an overall unenjoyable ride. I outgrew the "bragging rights" justification for any ride 25 years ago, and even worse, seeing others trying to coerce friends into attempting sketchy sections with real serious injury potential makes me want to slam my pump into faces. The GoProTube era has unfortunately created a self-perpetuating, self-indulging loop of "Look, ma, no hands!" propaganda which makes folks who merely enjoy non-risky rides out to be gumbies. The same folks who might call out bullying fail to notice their own behaviors in group rides or edited videos. Perhaps it's time to grow up, and think for yourself, in regard to your personal risk/reward calculus.

Looks like so much fun. After watching I no longer feel quarantined. 😆

oh geeze… can't wait to hit this again. watching myself from almost a year ago... I feel like i'm watching a JERRY! XD

Looks like an awesome ride with some killer views! Great vid!

Oh wow I held my breath on this one. Amazing ride.

Heading to Moab this weekend to ride Gold Bar and Portal for the first time. Looks sick!

Portal is one of my ultimate goals because of my fear of heights. I just started riding 2 months ago but by the time I get there I'll be able to enjoy the second half of that trail (technical downhill).

Its 10 degrees with 20 mph winds here you dont know how bad I want to go down there in the wintertime. Looks awesome thanks for showing.

Love the Giant Trances , got one myself

Nice! that first drops a doozy . the chunk looks so awesome on gold bar.

That ride is no joke. Nice video.

That exposure was insane!

I can't believe you did portal you mad man! back in the 90s they were having at least one death per year on that trail. Cheers!

I love that you’re able to laugh when you fall. That’s awesome. My wife and I are buying our bikes this week so I can’t wait to start riding. Nothing too extreme so we’ll probably hit up some easy trails around dfw to start :) gonna sub to your channel now.. really like the content

Pucker factor 10! Nicely done.

Awesome!! Real deal mountain biking there .

Just looking at that exposure makes me nervous! I might be in Dallas next weekend. I'm guessing you aren't ready to ride yet? Any spots I should check out?

Hardtail has left the chat

You are really fast for that tall scary mountain

Great value for your money

This place looks beautiful and fun but I don’t think I would do it haha

Looks like a great trail. How do you like that Trance?

I rode (walked) that one a couple years ago.

Kind of looks like Mars or the Grand Canyon...then other parts look like Central Texas with all the Rock Gardens and chunk✌

who else knows how to ride a bike but not like that i gie that man propes

I don’t think I would ever ride those cliff side trails.

Cramps suck. Nice vid man.

Great videos, keep,up the good work. It does drive me nuts that so many riders stop right in the middle of the trail blocking the rest if the group from any opportunity to clear that section. Get out of the way. Don’t sit there in the middle of the trail just staring at all the subsequent riders you are screwing up.

Nope. No way.

I would not ride that!

shouldve left your bikes and hiked instead.

Yea imma have to pass