After leaving Butte, we drove a short distance and are now in the Anaconda/ Phillipsburg, MT area for a week. The day of our first ride here the weather forecast was for 90% chance of rain after noon but...
Henry Lake
There are quite a few lakes in the Island Park/ West Yellowstone area. We road to Sheep Lake, Coffin Lake, and Hebgen Lake. On one of our days off we went from camp to check out Henry Lake. There’s...
Over the Top Mountain Bike Loops
This is our first time in Pocatello, ID and so far so good. There are a plethora of trails in and around town which is what drew us to the area. After spending some time in the morning scraping...
Virgin Rim & Goulds Loop
We are boondocking on the trail network here in Hurricane and it is very convenient to ride right from camp. Our first mountain bike loop was 25 miles with 2433′ of climbing. As I mentioned the other day, this...
Taos Vortex & Ojitos Nogal Rides
Taos Vortex Ride I have no idea why they call this ride the Taos Vortex, but it was a blast. The MTB Project app describes it as a grueling endure-techno rockhopping ride on the best foothill trails. The route...
El Paso, Texas
Mission Trail On a cool morning we drove the Mission Trail to visit all three missions on The Mission Trail. These are three of the oldest historic missions in the United States: Ysleta Mission, Socorro Mission and San Elizario...
Final days in San Diego
Looking back through pictures, we realized we never posted from out last days in San Diego. While staying with Derek’s mom, we took another day to ride around the area and check out the views. We took our gravel...
Mogollon Rim and Pine Loop
Mogollon Rim This week we are camping, riding and hiking around Payson, AZ. It’s almost the geographic center of Arizona. Mogollon Rim is a 200 mile long plateau that runs east from Payson. The plateau is roughly 2,000 higher...
Engineer Mountain and Hermosa Creek
Engineer Mountain Trail Engineer Mountain Trail is typically done as a shuttle but without that option, we rode it as an out and back. It’s pretty straightforward, you climb for 9.2 miles and 3,624′ and then turn around and...
Durango, Take Two
After a couple weeks in Telluride, we moved on to Durango. We were here back in June but a lot of the high country trails were under snow so we decided to come back. Animas Mtn and Ned Overend...