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. Columbine is one of the famous climbs in the Leadville 100 mountain bike race and it’s big!! It tops …
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 around 8:30am and with a steady pace, we climbed up the 4,888′ in a little over …
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 3758′ climbing. That’s a lot of climbing. The trails seemed deserted after we got to the …
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 …
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 and back due to the wilderness. That’s a shame because it has some great technical sections …
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 couple of hike a bikes. We kept on the CT until historic Interlaken where we hopped …
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 rough in most areas but we were able to almost keep up with Jeeps that were …
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 and 3000′ climbing.The trail winds through old burn and drops down down down to the Platte …
Buffalo Creek From camp we rode a big loop at Buffalo Creek one day. It clocked in at 28 miles with 3500′ climbing and was A+. The loop went through dark forests, across grassy meadows, along pine forest singletrack, past bouldery mountains and through old burn. There is a reason that 260 reviewers gave this …
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 reminded me a lot of the scenery in Bend but the trails were way more rooty …