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  • Take the arid red-rock country around Moab, Utah, which includes the ultra-scenic Arches and Canyonlands national parks and a wide variety of hiking trails, paved bike paths, and mountain-bike routes over smooth ground called slickrock.

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  • Bedrock exposures (e.g. slickrock and fins) are common along rims, escarpments, and on steep dip slopes.

    Ecoregions of Utah (EPA) 2009

  • On the right is Klondike Bluffs slickrock with striations of veggie and on the left is the silliness that is known as Baby Steps.

    Moab - this one goes to 11 KBK 2009

  • On the right is Klondike Bluffs slickrock with striations of veggie and on the left is the silliness that is known as Baby Steps.

    Archive 2009-04-01 Marty 2009

  • Here on the Great American Desert -- specifically Utah's slickrock portion of it where I live -- hot n 'dry means dust.

    Chip Ward: Red Snow Warning: The End of Welfare Water and the Drying of the West 2009

  • Bedrock exposures (e.g., slickrock and fins) are common along rims, escarpments, and on steep dip slopes.

    Ecoregions of Colorado (EPA) 2008

  • Outward bound: The $2,095 Belize Adventure Week package from slickrock. com includes a room at a jungle lodge outside San Ignacio, tubing limestone caves and rafting the Sibun River.

    Travel: Belize 2007

  • Moab is in southern Utah, home of the slickrock bike trail and lots of Nike commercials.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • Moab is in southern Utah, home of the slickrock bike trail and lots of Nike commercials.

    The Best American Erotica 2006 Edited by Susie Bright 2006

  • I strip down my three layers of shorts, biking shorts, and underwear just in time as I desecrate the slickrock.

    Between a Rock and a Hard Place Aron Ralston 2004

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