Another day another ride! Today we rode roughly 6.9 miles with 2444′ of climbing on the Cedar Creek Trails in Ruidoso, mostly different ones from the other day. This time we rode further into the system to add on...
Grindstone Lake Trails, Ruidoso
Most years racers flock to this area for the Wild West Fest. It was canceled in 2020 but is set to take place in 2021. We took a morning to ride the trails out at Grindstone Lake where part...
Cedar Creek Trails
Derek and I aren’t sure how we originally found out about Ruidoso, New Mexico but here we are. The village is in the Sierra Blanca mountain range and sits at 6920’. The town is named after Rio Ruidoso, a...
Redondo Peak Loop, Valles Caldera
There are countless backcountry loops possible around the Jemez Mtns. One of our first rides in the Los Alamos area was at Valles Caldera National Preserve and you can read about that here. We returned for a ride in...
Calaveras Canyon Gravel Loop
Our Calaveras Canyon gravel loop took us back into forests probably rarely seen by people. This ride had a little of everything from singletrack, to open choose your own adventure meadows, old abandoned rutted loose pipeline paths, muddy forested...
Gilman Tunnels Gravel
Our gravel ride out and back on forest road 376 to Gilman Tunnels was unexpectedly awesome! We rode an out and back that was 38 miles with 3233′ of climbing. The gravel is good the entire way and there...
Pajarito Loop
From our boondocking site we can see the top of Pajarito Ski Area. Derek created a mountain bike loop that took us up to the top, around the mountain and back down. It was 14.3 miles but had a...
Tsankawi Prehistoric Sites & Los Alamos
Tsankawi Sites For our day off we went into Los Alamos to walk around some historic sites and then did a short hike of the Tsankawi Prehistoric Sites. The name Tsankawi is from the Tewa language of the nearby...
East Fork Trail
East Fork Trail between Los Alamos and Jemez Springs is pretty popular in certain sections so we picked midweek to have more solitude. Even then, we passed a handful of hikers. I can’t imagine how busy it gets on...
Quemazon – Guaje Ridge Loop
This is a recommended route on MTB Project and I get why. I think it may be one of the top rides we’ve done in the past few months. It is hard. Our day was 21 miles with 3517′...