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 …