HELLO Durango! We spent the first two days of riding in Durango on the Horse Gulch and Telegraph Canyon trails network. Day 1 was 18.5 miles with 2,500 feet of climbing, and day 2 was 21 miles with 2,600 feet of climbing. There are so many fun trails in this network and you can put …
Sand Canyon – Canyon of the Ancients Sand Canyon isn’t a very big trail network so it wasn’t even on our radar until a lady we met suggested we check it out. Sand Canyon is in the Canyon of the Ancients National Monument 10 miles west of Cortez, CO. The monument is 176,000 acres and contains the highest known density …
Boggy Draw We moved on from Bears Ears and settled in Cortez, Colorado for the week. Both of us were pretty eager to mountain bike so we hit up the Boggy Draw trail network for a few hours of singletrack. We find a lot of our riding on either Trailforks or MtbProject, both great apps! …
Jem Area Trails This day of riding was longer than we intended. We rode some fast flowy trails called Jem, Goosebumps, Dead Ringer, More Cowbell, Hurricane Rim and Cryptobionic. The views on More Cowbell were my favorite, though Jem takes you along the cliff right above the Virgin River and is neato. Wire Mesa Trail …
Little Creek Mesa We met up with some friends who live in the area and they rode two days with us. It was nice having personal tour guides! The first day we rode the singletrack at Little Creek Mesa, adding on the North Loops as well. These are black diamond trails that zig and zag …
A couple of our mountain biking friends from San Diego moved to Virgin, Utah last year. Since we were traveling by the area I contacted them and as luck would have it, they had an RV spot at their new house here. So we are hanging out with them for the week doing a bunch …
Our week here at Lake Powell has flown by as most weeks seem to. We would stay longer, but the weather is calling for some storms and unlike most of our spots, this one isn’t free. So we are heading over to Hurricane, Utah for some mountain biking and to visit with some friends that …
Hermit Road Bike Ride From Grand Canyon Village there is a road called Hermit’s Road that cars aren’t allowed on. A free shuttle bus takes you to all the vistas along the road but we didn’t want to sit on a bus so we rode our bikes from Tusayan (a little tourist town) along a …
Cottonwood trails Just down the highway from Sedona is a smaller town called Cottonwood. Dead Horse Ranch State Park had a loop of around 20 miles of singletrack that we mapped out to ride. Sundays in Sedona are pretty busy so we headed to Cottonwood for our singletrack fix. Our loop took us on trails …
Devil’s Bridge Hike We try to mix it up so we aren’t riding bikes every day and luckily there are a few hikes we want to do in the area. Devil’s Bridge is the largest natural sandstone arch in Sedona. You can do the hike a few different ways. We didn’t want to walk up …