If you’ve been reading our blog lately you know we spent a couple weeks in Canyonlands National Park. I am behind on posting but here is another fantastic ride we did to experience one of the lesser visited areas. Derek and I rode out a 4X4 road to a dramatic overlook of the Colorado River. …
There are some amazing remote gravel/rock road rides in the Canyonlands area. We rode Elephant Hill Road the other day and I blogged about it here. This time we decided to explore Lockhart Basin Road, the back road to Moab. It’s too long for a single day out and back, in fact it’s often bikepacked. …
Elephant Hill Road in Canyonlands is no joke. It’s a high clearance 4X4 dirt/gravel/sand/sheer rock road that goes into the remote backcountry. We decided to mountain bike it so we could get out to the Colorado River/Green River Confluence Overlook. Please don’t attempt to ride this on a gravel bike. You will hate it and …
The Alien Run Trails are technically challenging and scenic mountain bike trails routed near an alleged UFO crash site in Aztec, NM. The area boasts rugged singletrack winding through pinon tree and desert scrub badlands with playful slickrock areas. Allegedly, in March of 1948, a UFO was rumored to have been tracked by radar and …
Derek and I finally rode some of the trails in Farmington, NM. We started in the BLM Glade Run Recreation Area, featuring 19,000 acres of slick rock, rolling terrain, and sandy arroyos. This is high desert so there is a lot of sage, pinon pine and juniper. It being a weekday, we didn’t see any other …
Before the giant rain storm this past weekend, Derek and I rode our bikes on a loop up out of Mancos that went by the Jersey Jim Lookout and around towards Dolores before dropping back down to Transfer Campground. Jersey Jim Tower is an old Forest Service Fire Tower 55′ in the air with an …
Sometimes trail names make sense and other times I think the creator just picked a name they liked. In this case, it was named appropriately. We mountain biked a fun loop in Dolores, Colorado that included a trail named Bear Tracks. You see where I’m going with this? I started seeing a ton of bear …
Seeking to escape the heat, we headed up a little higher above Mancos, CO to ride in the Chicken Creek area. It’s nice because there is a lot of shade from the big pines and aspens. Plus, the cool breeze coming off the La Plata Mtns helps when it’s a warm summer day. We have …
Wow, time is flying. We haven’t done a post in forever. Never fear, we’ve been busy riding and hiking and I’m even swimming at a local pool! There were a couple days in August where we got drifting smoke from a fire by Rico, Colorado and we had to play the AQI map game to …
When it heats up at lower levels, head up in elevation! This ride topped out at 10,500 and while it was a lot of climbing, the downhills were fast and deserved. The area around Southern Colorado has a lot of gravel roads leading to the high country. Some of the roads are good gravel and …