Canyon de Chelly National Monument is about 84,000 acres entirely on the Navajo Nation in Northeast Arizona. The monument was authorized in 1931 by President Herbert Hoover. Early Puebloans, ancestors of the Hopis, built cliff dwellings high in the...
Jug Handle Loop & More Arches
Jug Handle Loop Jug Handle Loop is a mostly dirt road loop up by Dead Horse State Park in Moab. The loop is 37.5 miles with 3,247′ of climbing, mainly up Shafer Trail. We started the loop just off...
Moab Week Two Summary
The Whole Enchilada As I previously mentioned, we have been coming to Moab to mountain bike for over 20 years. Somehow we have never been able to ride the route called The Whole Enchilada before. This ride starts way...
Arches National Park
We put our Annual National Park Pass to use again and went to Arches National Park while in Moab. The area was a National Monument to begin with back in 1929 but upgraded to a National Park in 1971....
Moab Week One Summary
We finally left Colorado and are spending a couple weeks in Moab, Utah. Derek and I have been coming to Moab for over 20 years and it never disappoints. As a bonus, our friend Kevin joined us for 4 days...
Leftover Days
To complete our two week stint in Durango, we rode a few loops at Twin Buttes, did a giant gravel loop called Strada de la Plata, and rode again out in Horse Gulch. Strada de la Plata This gravel...
Engineer Mountain and Hermosa Creek
Engineer Mountain Trail Engineer Mountain Trail is typically done as a shuttle but without that option, we rode it as an out and back. It’s pretty straightforward, you climb for 9.2 miles and 3,624′ and then turn around and...
Chicken Creek and Mancos Rim
Fall colors are starting to drop!!! We rode Chicken Creek and Mancos Rim Trail as an out and back for a 20 mile, 2,200′ of climbing day. These aren’t very heavily used trails but both were fun, though definitely...
Durango, Take Two
After a couple weeks in Telluride, we moved on to Durango. We were here back in June but a lot of the high country trails were under snow so we decided to come back. Animas Mtn and Ned Overend...
