Rift Valley Singletrack After our big ride the other day we decided to take it easy on our ride today. Plus it started to spit rain so we cut our ride short. Our loop was 12 miles with 933’...
Valle Vidal
The Rio Costillo valley is a remote part of Northern New Mexico. We rode a lollipop route that was 35 miles with 2300’ of climbing. The riding was on gravel roads and doubletrack through a ginormous valley. The valley...
Gravel Rides – Salida, CO
Exploring Ride Salida hosts a gravel bike race, well, it was canceled due to the pandemic, but I downloaded the map from the website and we attempted the ride. Our ride was 29.7 miles with 3584′ of climbing all...
Pagosa Springs
Pagosa Gravel Ride What better way to see the mountains and forest surrounding Pagosa Springs then by bike? Our gravel loop was 49.3 miles with 3677’ of climbing. We started out from a park in town and road pavement...
Red Arrow & Taylor Creek
Red Arrow Road Red Arrow Road is a beast. Really, it’s just too rough for gravel bikes comfortably. We toughed it out for 27 miles and 3117′ of climbing. We saw one truck the whole day. It’s nice to...
Accidental 50 Miles
We didn’t mean to ride this far, it just happened. Well, it was almost 50 miles. 48.3 miles with 3,551′ of climbing that topped out at around 9400′ There’s a story. We started off on a nice gravel road...
Cherry Creek Gravel
There are so many gravel roads around here! Today’s ride was 37 miles with 2600′ climbing. There was a stiff headwind part of the way and a lot of flat out pedaling to make it seem harder than it...
Aspen Loop…Kind of
Another fabulous day in the saddle! My gravel bike is nothing short of spectacular and today’s loop was a blast. Really it was a lollipop where we rode up Echo Basin and then added on a short modified Aspen...
Salsa!
Well, I finally bit the bullet and bought a new gravel bike. We saved quite a bit of money when we canceled most of our Texas plans due to the coronavirus so I rationalized and bought a Salsa Warbird...
Melting Away
Snow melts fast here! Where we turned around on loops due to snow blockage last week is now rideable. Our loop the other day was dreamy. 34 miles of a gravel/paved mix with 2724′ climbing…from our trailer. These roads...