Highlight reels are fun quick snapshots of greatness and this post is just that. Derek and I just completed our third year of living and traveling full time in our trailer. Looking back on the year is fun and remembering all the great experiences is priceless. So here we go, in no particular order: Happy …
There are quite a few lakes in the Island Park/ West Yellowstone area. We road to Sheep Lake, Coffin Lake, and Hebgen Lake. On one of our days off we went from camp to check out Henry Lake. There’s a state park at Henry Lake but we are camped on a back road to it …
We started the day hoping to do a gravel ride out to Cliff and Wade Lakes but once we got to the road we found it closed due to fire activity. Plan B, we drove back to Raynolds Pass and rode the Continental Divide Trail out and back towards Nemesis Mountain. Our ride was 15 …
Not everyone you meet on the internet is bad. I’ve belonged to a mountain bike message board for about 20 years and have met some of these people in real life when out traveling. Hell, I even hosted a group at my place in Bend one year and we spent a fun week riding and …
The other day we rode the CDT south from Targhee Pass and today we rode it north. Our out and back ride was 16 miles with 3239′ of climbing topping out at 9531′. Today we rode to the stateline between Idaho and Montana at the top of a mountain and you’ll see that in a …
Flexibility is key when you live and travel full time in a trailer. Initially we wanted to get back up to Salmon, ID to do some more riding but some of the fires in the west are pushing smoke into that valley. So, we looked for somewhere else and decided to check out Island Park, …
After taking a week off from riding, we eased back in with a gravel ride from our boondocking spot out along the west side of Palisades Reservoir. Our ride was an out and back of 22.4 miles with 2090′ of climbing. The ride starts on the paved road up to the turn off to Calamity …
Derek and I celebrated our 22 year wedding anniversary the other day and spent the day at Palisades Reservoir and Melvin Brewery. Palisades Reservoir was completed in 1957 to provide irrigation water, flood control, and recreation. Supposedly it supplies irrigation water to more than 1.1 million acres or about 19,000 farms. We drove right down …
After a long spell of some really hard riding, we decided to take a week off and recover. We are camped along the Snake River and Palisades Reservoir in Swan Valley, Idaho. We spend most days lounging around reading with the occasional dip in the river or reservoir. Fall Creek Falls is a short distance …
Our last two rides in the area were doozies. Unfortunately the sky was a bit hazy from the fires everywhere in the west so the views in pictures didn’t turn out. The riding on the Pole Canyon Mikesell Loop was challenging. This is DEFINITELY a black diamond route with difficult climbs and descents. Our loop …