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You'll start out with a fairly flat ride through sage and juniper. At 0.5 miles, the road forks. Right goes to the Behind the Rocks trail. Left is to Pritchett. From here, you should find "Pritchett" posts with arrows at every trail intersection. The mesa road is flat to somewhat downhill. You'll fight your way through quite a bit of sand in this area. After 5 miles, you'll arrive at Prostitute Butte. From here, the trail gets more interesting. The trail climbs and descends through a couple of canyons, with the surface alternating between open rock, ledges, and sand. After passing Pritchett Arch, the trail makes a final brutal uphill climb, then dumps you down White Knuckle Hill. There's some extreme stuff here, but remember you can always pick up the bike and climb down. Coming out of White Knuckle Hill, the trail winds up and down through dry creekbed, with plenty of sandy uphill sprints. This last two miles finishes off your thighs, if you have anything left. Two authoritative guidebooks give the riding time for this trail as "2 hours." Make that FOUR hours if you're in good shape. Information provided by utahmountainbiking.com.
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The Pritchett Canyon trail is a mixture of jeep-road on open mesa, intermediate technical ledge dropping, rolling rock, sand digs, and insane technical rock. We describe the main trail (following the trail signs), which is 22 miles. You'll descend about 1400 feet from the mesa down to the Colorado, but you'll also do a bit of climbing, too.
