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...
Crested Butte Chili and Beer Festival
Derek and I volunteered to be chili judge assistants at the festival. Since the chili competition was a blind tasting, we were in charge of bringing each chili to the judges and keeping track of whose was which chili....
Colorado Trail to Holy Cross Wilderness
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...
Tin Cup Pass
Tim Cup Pass is a 4X4 really rough and rocky road that tops out at the Continental Divide at 12,154′. Historically it was a wagon route, now it’s an off roaders dream. The climb up was pretty steady and...
Alderfer & Cheeseman Canyon
Alderfer/Three Sisters Today we drove to Evergreen, CO to ride all the trails at Alderfer/Three Sisters. The loop was 16 miles and 2800′ climbing. Most of the riding is through forest so we never really got big views. It...