Have you ever been to a Celtic Fair? We hadn’t but when we saw a flyer for one in Cortez, CO we decided to check it out. Parque de Vida in downtown Cortez is an amazing park. There are a billion soccer fields, baseball diamonds, a pond, pickelball and tennis courts, a skate park, a …
The only way to get to the water at Crater Lake is via Cleetwood Cove Trail. This trail is pretty short but very sweet. The trail descends from Rim Road via a series of switchbacks through the trees and then bam, you’re down at the water. It’s a dusty trail and can be hot in the …
The Crater Lake area has a lot of hiking options and one evening I did a really quick one by our campspot. Godfrey Glen is only about 1.2 miles itself but I did a bunch of extra credit hiking to make it longer. The trail is fairly flat overall and more of a path. It …
The Elkhorn Crest Trail has been our bucket list for quite some time. In the almost three years that we have been traveling fulltime and checking off places to go, things to see, trails to hike and ride, and life to live, this one is especially sweet because it’s in Oregon where we lived for …
From camp we hiked down to Spawn Creek Trailhead and then up Spawn Creek trail into the canyon for a couple miles. Overall our hike was around 6 miles and astonishingly we didn’t see anyone!!!!! Spawn Creek Trail heads uphill gently through grassy meadows with the creek on one side and forest on the other. …
This loop is primo backcountry singletrack that definitely makes a top notch ride. Don’t get me wrong, it was pretty tough, but very fun. We rode from camp and it was 22 miles with 3876′ of climbing. This ride required a semi-early start because the temps this week are in the 90’s. From camp we …
We already posted about the mountain bike trails in Goblin Valley State Park, which unfortunately are the only real mountain bike trails nearby. There are a lot of off-road (OHV) routes around here that are popular with the jeep and side-by-side crowd. So I decided to get out and explore some of these roads to …
There are 820 miles of the Continental Divide Trail in New Mexico! We’ve already ridden several sections of it in the state and added another section from camp. We rode 25.1 miles and climbed 2581′ on a gloriously sunny and warm day. This section of the CDT between Jack’s Peak Trailhead and Hornbrook Mountain is …
After a couple weeks in Ruidoso, we moved down the highway to Cloudcroft, NM. Our boondocking spot is around 8800′ in the trees. Luckily, it’s still warm in the days and decent at night, though fall is definitely here. Our first ride was on what the locals call the High Altitude Race Course and then …
I’ll venture to guess that 90% of you reading this blog post have never heard of Bandelier National Monument. I hadn’t until we decided to spend some time in Los Alamos, NM and did some research on things to do here…besides mountain biking. Named after Adolph Bandelier, a Swiss-American anthropologist, who researched the cultures of …