Bags Packed
With the next big adventure just around the corner–I fly out of Buffalo for Colorado this Saturday–my life has been packed away, put into storage and reduced to a large cardboard box, a small hockey bag and a heavy back-pack. …
Category: Colorado
Monarch Crest, Paradise and Beyond
A year and a half ago my good friend Reilly said to me, “if you get yourself to Colorado at the end of September, I’ll show you the best mountain-biking in the US.” Taking him up on the offer six …
Crested Butte
Tuesday–day five of our mountain-bike road trip–found us back at altitude; this time Crested Butte and the Elk Mountains. Another big day on the bike, we rode for nearly six hours which included nearly 4200″ of climbing topping out at …
Colorado National Monument
After completing the Edge Loop, the posse ate, changed, packed camp and was back on the road. While we could have taken the main roads south and east through Fruita and Grand Junction, Reilly instead took us along Rim Road …
Book Cliffs
Monday we rode the Edge Loop around the Book Cliffs north of Fruita. This IMBA Epic trail really does define what it means to be an epic ride. The trail starts with a leisurely 18km climb up an increasingly steep jeep …