Predators – Mountain lions call the Moab region home.Cacti and other things with thorns and spikes – Just avoid them.
The ice was super-thin and the color of the rock around it, that is to say indetectable, except to my sore tailbone afterward. Last winter, I slipped and fell hard, really hard, on a shaded section of slickrock still covered with ice from a storm a couple days before I arrived. Finally, beware the snow and ice that lingers on trails after recent precipitation events. Layer up and carry a lot of water as you’ll be be surprised how dry the air always is. Cold, aridity, and frozen trails – Wintertime trail running in Moab is sweet stuff, but you’ll find the same aridity of summer as well as cold temperatures.On every warm-weather excursion, bring with you more water than you think you’ll need. Heat and aridity – May through September see daily highs in the 90s and sometimes 100s Fahrenheit.Take care of the following obstacles when running there: The Moab region is mostly warm, arid, and sometimes prickly. Though long a local’s secret, trail running on the region’s singletrack, doubletrack, and slickrock has only recently captured the attention of our community. Moab has been on the recreational radars of jeep-ers and mountain bikers since the near-dawn of those technological inventions.
Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service, and other public lands begin at the literal edge of town and extend in every direction for dozens to hundreds of miles. Located where the Colorado River curves out of, well, Colorado and carves into the red sandstone of eastern Utah, Moab is year-round home to 5,000-ish residents and a tourist destination for a few million visitors. The author taking a break during a trail run through Canyonlands National Park’s Needles District.
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