Exploring Big Bend National Park takes time as it’s huge! We took one day and drove out the gravel Old Maverick Road to Santa Elena Canyon Trail, and then around on Ross Maxwell Scenic Drive. Santa Elena Road is rough, but no match for the truck. Once at Santa Elena Canyon, we did the short …
Madden/Gold Run/Starvation Loop Exploration Day! From camp we rode up the gravel road to Madden Peak. It’s nice wide gravel for the first few miles and then gets increasingly rocky so it’s a good thing we were on mountain bikes. At the top we turned onto Old Gold Run singletrack and took that for miles. …
Double Top Loop This ride had my least favorite trail of Crested Butte. We rode out Brush Creek dirt road to a short trail called Death Pass. It sounds ominous but it wasn’t, just a nice ribbon of cliffside singletrack above the creek. We kept climbing on Trail 400 until the intersection with Block and Tackle. Up that …
Our week here at Lake Powell has flown by as most weeks seem to. We would stay longer, but the weather is calling for some storms and unlike most of our spots, this one isn’t free. So we are heading over to Hurricane, Utah for some mountain biking and to visit with some friends that …
After three great weeks in Sedona, it was time for us to leave. Partly because we have a lot more to see, and partly because we were a week past our 14 day limit for dry camping in the National Forest. We were also excited to check out the Grand Canyon, which neither of us …
Fay Canyon Today we wanted an easy hike on our “day off” and looking at the AllTrails app, and the Fay Canyon hike seemed to fit the bill. Fay Canyon proper hike is a 2.6 mile walk up a red sand trail that crosses a few rocky washes. At the very top after the sign …
Devil’s Bridge Hike We try to mix it up so we aren’t riding bikes every day and luckily there are a few hikes we want to do in the area. Devil’s Bridge is the largest natural sandstone arch in Sedona. You can do the hike a few different ways. We didn’t want to walk up …
We have a long history with Sedona, we’ve been coming here to mountain bike since the late 90’s when we were tent camping. Decades later, we are still enjoy it, though now it is much busier. So here we are, living in our RV down a dirt road among red rock cliffs, expansive views, and …
Today was a bit of an adventure. We started out by trying to ride down a back road to get to the dam at Apache Lake but after a couple miles in we encountered a very official No Trespassing Government Property sign and had to turn back. Instead, we rode a couple miles down the …
We saved the hardest day for last. Many people who haven’t had the chance to visit Tucson probably picture the area as flat desert. Although Tucson itself it pretty flat, it is surrounded by some impressive mountains. Mt Lemmon is the tallest mountain in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Tucson at 9,159′ tall. The best …