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...
Turquoise Lake
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....
Columbine & Colorado Trail
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....
We Hiked a 14er!
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...
Aspen and Independence Pass
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...
Cottonwood Lake and Pass
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...
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...
Twin Lakes, Colorado
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...
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...
Buffalo Creek Final Days
Colorado Trail Segment 2 Section 2 of the Colorado Trail was very different from a lot of the other sections we’ve ridden We did this as an out and back from camp one day which made it 25 miles...