UT - Poison spider mesa to portal loop - Mountain Bike Trail Review with Map and Pictures

Description -   From what I heard, more sand than cape cod here, so I was avoiding it, but my bitch destiny called again with a recent rain so I had to check it out.. My riding life partner PMD was sick so this was to be my first solo utah ride.. Lucky for my I met up with Rod in the parking lot - Easy Easy now, this isnt cruisy woods. So here's the ride, Starts up some switchbacks, im thunkin, hey this isnt bad on 10 day old legs, then around turn 6.4 a wall of loose large gravel and sand - I think boneyard and attack, barely clean it.. Keep going up and it turns to mainly slickrock with some patches of sand. But I have to say, the longest section I hiked was about 121 feet.. And most of the other sand was downhill, with speed get behind seat and have fun surfing.. Slickrock gets pretty dam steep as you go up, very rolly, up and down.. Some techs here and there, but pretty moderate, mainlhy smoothe slickrock, I hit a few drops, some nice tech ups and one 20 foot roller. Take a trip to the arch, steep down where it says "arch" carved in the stone.. Makeable up, just don't try and crawl down in the arch pit, I see cable rub from past rescues?? Ok they say you can do a lariat if you follow the jeep marks, but I see sand Sandy..

You can go back down the way you came or take the portal.. Portal is Very exposed, and very technical. WALK the dismount spots and ride everything else you can. If you're an expert rider, you will focking love it..  If you just go out and back on the poison spider, more of an intermediate ride, 3.4 buckets.  Add some out and back on the goldbar rim and goldbar singletrack for an epic day..

Loops - Out and back, loop with portal, loop with portal and extra loop on portion of golbar rim for epic ride.