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 at La Costa Preserve. Riding almost every way up and down, we put together 14 miles …
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 Canyon. The recent rains brought water to the canyon and we could hear and see flow …
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 person today and were happy to wind around the desert, up over and around the foothills. …
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 than the surrounding topography and we rode part of it. ‘ Gravel Road 300 or Rim …
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 but not too steep with 8 or so switchbacks. All the while, we had views of …
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 of fairly good gravel we encountered him. After that, the road sucked. The grading had churned …
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 Highway 261, up 3 miles of switchbacks on the cliff, out road 241 to Muley Point …
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 Fletcher alone that long so we did 17 out and then turned around and came back. …
Mule Canyon Hike We hiked Mule Canyon the other day. I think it was around 6 miles. A lot of our time was spent up on the cliff sides picking our way along the slickrock and looking for ruins. We found 4 different sites. The first ruin we came to was House on Fire. It’s …
A couple of our mountain biking friends from San Diego moved to Virgin, Utah last year. Since we were traveling by the area I contacted them and as luck would have it, they had an RV spot at their new house here. So we are hanging out with them for the week doing a bunch …