Old Ore Road Bike Ride Old Ore Road was 28 miles with 2200’ of climbing. Old Ore Road is a primitive, rough 4X4 gravel road that doesn’t get much use from what we could see. We rode out 14...
Big Bend National Park West
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...
Riding the Coast
Rancho La Costa Preserve We are back in Carlsbad, CA visiting family and friends. After an almost 7 hour drive the day before, we needed to stretch our riding legs. Not far from Derek’s mom’s house are the trails...
Box and Madera Canyon Ride
Box Canyon and Madera Canyon was a superb mostly gravel ride out by Sonoita, AZ outside Tucson. This out and back ride was 33 miles with 3842′ of climbing. Our ride began on dirt as we descended into Box...
Las Colinas and Saguaro National Park
Las Colinas – Arizona Trail Today we were back on the Arizona Trail riding 26 miles with 1600′ of climbing. This was an out and back from the Gabe Zimmerman trailhead heading towards Sonoita. We saw all of one...
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...
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...
John’s Canyon and Citadel Ruins
John’s Canyon You win some you lose some. Today we attempted to ride John’s Canyon Road out by Gooseneck State Park. There was nobody around, no cars, no people…except for the guy in the grader. After a couple miles...
Valley of the Gods and Muley Point
Folks, this was a doozy. From our camp spot, do you call it a camp spot when you live in a trailer all the time? Anyway, from camp we rode gravel bikes out Valley of the Gods road to...
Elk Ridge Backway and Exploring
Bears Ears Today’s ride was a keeper. We road up and out Elk Ridge State Scenic Backway past Bears Ears and then just kept going. The dirt road actually goes out 87 miles towards Canyonlands but we can’t leave...