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Month: August 2019

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Riding and Hiking and a Massage, Oh My!

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 29, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, Crested Butte, hiking, Mountain Biking 1 Comment 276 Views

Rustler’s Gulch Hike Crested Butte is known for wildflowers and this hike showcased some. We hiked a total of 9 miles out and back along the gulch and headed up along a stream of snowmelt through fields of flowers with mountains...

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Teocalli Ridge Loop & Trail Building

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 26, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, Crested Butte, Mountain Biking 3 Comments 325 Views

Teocalli Ridge Loop is no joke. To get to it you have to climb a gravel road up to a singletrack and then, in your easiest gear, grind up to the ridge. It’s steep, real steep. It’s loose and...

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Crested Butte, Colorado

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 23, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, Crested Butte, Mountain Biking Leave a Comment 267 Views

Baxter Gulch and Green Lake We passed through Crested Butte on a mountain biking vacation over a decade ago and loved the few days we spent riding. We wanted to spend more time in the area so we swing...

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Turquoise Lake

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 21, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, Leadville, Mountain Biking Leave a Comment 1440 Views

Turquoise Lake is a 1,788 acre boot shaped reservoir in Leadville, Colorado and was the start of our last ride in the area. We rode singletrack around the lake, then hopped on a gravel road and climbed to Sugarloaf Pass....

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Columbine & Colorado Trail

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 19, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, Leadville, Mountain Biking Leave a Comment 196 Views

Our last ride from camp was a doozy. We rode the Colorado Trail around Twin Lakes to where it crosses Columbine, all the way up Columbine to the tippy top, and back to camp. 36 miles with 4,979′ climbing....

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We Hiked a 14er!

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 18, 2019October 4, 2019 Colorado, hiking, Leadville 1 Comment 695 Views

Mount Elbert Mount Elbert is Colorado’s highest peak, and at 14,439‘, it’s the second highest in the United States. We’ve been camped at the base of it for a couple weeks and decided to climb it.  We started up...

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Aspen and Independence Pass

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 15, 2019August 15, 2019 Colorado, Mountain Biking 1 Comment 333 Views

Aspen, Colorado We’re not city folk and hell, we sure as shit aren’t fancy, but we took a day trip to Aspen to mountain bike. We picked out a loop on MtbProject that was 23 miles with a whopping...

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Cottonwood Lake and Pass

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 14, 2019August 14, 2019 Colorado, Gravel biking, Road Riding Leave a Comment 462 Views

After being closed for a couple years for improvements and paving, Cottonwood Pass finally opened to the west. We decided to ride to the top and down part of the other side, then back. The climb up was steady...

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Colorado Trail to Holy Cross Wilderness

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 13, 2019August 13, 2019 Beer, Colorado, Mountain Biking Leave a Comment 440 Views

Colorado Trail We have ridden a lot of the Colorado Trail and just finished off the segment by Leadville that ends at Holy Cross Wilderness. Most riders skip this section since you have to do it as an out...

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Twin Lakes, Colorado

Heidi Faller Posted onAugust 12, 2019August 12, 2019 Colorado, Mountain Biking Leave a Comment 484 Views

From our camp we mountain biked around Twin Lakes. The loop started on Segment 11 of the Colorado Trail and headed down to Twin Lakes Village. We crossed the highway and continued on a rocky, rooty section with a...

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