Rustler’s Gulch Hike Crested Butte is known for wildflowers and this hike showcased some. We hiked a total of 9 miles out and back along the gulch and headed up along a stream of snowmelt through fields of flowers with mountains all around. We crossed several rock fields, some snow, and picked our way up the side …
Month: August 2019
Teocalli Ridge Loop is no joke. To get to it you have to climb a gravel road up to a singletrack and then, in your easiest gear, grind up to the ridge. It’s steep, real steep. It’s loose and rooty in sections, but it’s gorgeous. Moto’s chew it up quite a bit towards the top …
Baxter Gulch and Green Lake We passed through Crested Butte on a mountain biking vacation over a decade ago and loved the few days we spent riding. We wanted to spend more time in the area so we swing back through to do just that. Day one was new to us. We rode a loop …
Turquoise Lake is a 1,788 acre boot shaped reservoir in Leadville, Colorado and was the start of our last ride in the area. We rode singletrack around the lake, then hopped on a gravel road and climbed to Sugarloaf Pass. When the Colorado Trail crossed it, we took that back down to the lake and retraced …
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 …