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| At the bottom of the Shafer
Switchbacks I stopped for a moment to take
these photos, while Jayne continued on uphill.
Then I pushed on to catch up with her again. |
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When I came to the third
switchback I nearly got a heart attack. I saw
Jayne pinned under her bike in the ditch next to
the rock wall.
I lifted the bike a little so that she could
crawl out, her aluminum
panniers prevented the bike from crushing
her leg. She had an altered mental status, which
I assotiated with a shock, but it turned out to
be a concussion from hitting the rock wall with
her helmet. After about 1/2 hour later, with
Rangers and EMS on scene, she slowly came back
to being herself. She was taken by a 4WD
ambulance to Moab Hospital for a CT scan to make
sure she didn't have brain bleeding or similar,
which she didn't. Read her side of the story here. |
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The Shafer
Switchbacks are an amazing road, but
they are steep, lose dirt and rocks, and require
more off-road experience than Jayne had at the
time.
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| After three days of relaxing and
healing at a Moab Motel we continued on our
trip. The first stop was Goblin
Valley where among other movies Galaxie
Quest was filmed. |
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| The rock formations in Goblin
Valley are awsome and stunning.. |
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| Then we rode our motorcycles on to
Capitol Reef
National Park. There are some nice
Petroglyphs and a beautiful ride through the
Capitol Gorge, a narrow canyon. |
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