Angel Fire Bike Park Our first ride in Angel Fire was at the bike park. Angel Fire Bike Park is world class. The lift assisted mountain hosted a world cup competition in 2005 and holds downhill races regularly. The...
Questa to San Cristobal Loop
Questa to San Cristobal is a mostly gravel loop that requires mountain bikes. We rode 28 miles with 3865′ climbing. The loop goes up into the mountains behind Questa, NM on some NEVER used doubletrack before dropping down into...
Horsethief Mesa and Enchanted Forest
Horsethief Mesa and John Dunn Bridge The Horsetheif Mesa singletrack by Taos is outstanding. We put together a loop there and added an out and back down to the Rio Grande John Dunn Bridge for a total of 24...
Rio Grande to Ute Mountain Ride
On paper this looked like a cinch. Ride 31 miles with 1750’ of climbing. In reality, it seemed really hard. We left from Sheep Canyon overlook where we saw otters playing in the Rio Grande waaaaaay below us. It’s...
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...
Las Vistas de Questa Trails
Back in El Paso we saw the Rio Grande, then we paddled it in Big Bend State Park and Big Bend National Park, and now we saw it here in Northern New Mexico as well. Our Vistas de Questa...
East Fork to Lost Lake Loop
In December 2014 the Wheeler Peak Wilderness boundary was redrawn and now this loop is legal to ride. Good thing, because it was amazing. Our loop was 14.4 miles with 2398’ climbing. It is tough rewarding riding that tops...
Greenie Peak Loop
Wanting to get another big loop done while the weather forecast was good, we rode Greenie Peak Loop from camp. Greenie Peak Loop was a big gravel/dirt loop of 27.7 miles with 4408’ of climbing. We topped out at...
Goose Lake Ride
After four months in Colorado we finally left and are in Red River, NM. Our boondocking spot took some work to get level but we have a nice spot in the forest with trees and a meadow to look...
Sand Duning
Our initial plan to hike up to Como Lake were foiled by heavy looking dark grey, almost black clouds that hovered around Blanca Peak. So, we decided to hike around Great Sand Dunes National Park for a couple hours....