Dirt&Snow

the older i get, the faster i was.

  • Three Years Later, I Still Love Getting High :: Copper to Searle Pass on the Colorado Trail

    Three Years Later, I Still Love Getting High :: Copper to Searle Pass on the Colorado Trail

    Three years, three weeks, and a day or so after the ride on Searle Pass that inspired this very thread on MTBR I found myself back again. A good friend Hirsch was in town visiting from Tulsa, so we rounded up a couple more friends and set out to get some high country riding in. The…

  • Seek & Destroy

    Seek & Destroy

    I had gone to bed early the evening before, with no alarm set and no plans to speak of. After a restful, nearly 10-hour sleep, while laying in bed contemplating options for the day, I received a text stating “Thinking about Enduroing before the storm.”

  • The Unexpected Adventure :: Hidden Valley > Moab Rim > Pipe Dream

    The Unexpected Adventure :: Hidden Valley > Moab Rim > Pipe Dream

    Rode a ride that we intended to be a nice and easy “from the house” sort of affair which quickly turned into something a little longer, and way moar funner. Hiked bikes up a trail called Hidden Valley which takes you up to (gasp!) a hidden valley just below Moab Rim, then over to Moab…

  • Feeling Small in Big Places: Jarosa Mesa > Cataract Ridge > West Pole Creek

    So I have this friend who likes to make poor decisions and recently I decided to join him and some of his mates for a big high alpine adventure ride that we’d all been eyeballing for a while, and that several people I know have been weathered off of. Breathtaking scenery and rugged, primitive terrain…

  • Motorboating Wildflowers – Molas Pass to Cascade Creek

    The Colorado Trail from Molas Pass to Cascade Creek is not to trifled with… it can be a big day at high altitude but the rewards are well worth it. The Yeti Tribe Gathering descended on this ride in mid-July of 2014, and the wildflowers and skunk cabbage were so high you could motorboat them as…

  • We Got A Thing Goin’ On – Jones Pass to Herman Gulch on the CDT

    There are two trails in Colorado that deserve your attention. Nay, demand it. One is the Colorado Trail, from which I have posted several ride reports from various sections. The other is the Continental Divide Trail, or CDT, of which I haven’t ridden much of. There are a few sections that coincide with other rides…

  • Just another Thursday night ride…

    A few years ago I saw a post on a Colorado mountain bike forum from a fella trying to get together a weekly Thursday night ride in the winter. I had recently been re-introduced to night riding, was in need of a crew to pedal with, and as such decided to show up. Since that…

  • The Gentleman’s Wasatch

    The Gentleman’s Wasatch

    Got a chance over the weekend to get after a ride I’d heard about a year or so ago, down in To-Hell-You-Ride, CO. A buddy of mine who lived there for years told me of a gondola-assisted high country affair they liked to call “The Gentleman’s Wasatch” a.k.a. The Wasatch Connect a.k.a. Nellie Mine Trail.…

  • Gettin’ HIGH for the second time in a week (Kenosha Pass to Breckenridge on Colorado Trail)

    I had such a good time gettin’ HIGHED UP on the 4th, I decided to do it again. Didn’t get quite as high, but we did manage to take wrong turn after getting high. Occupational hazards, I suppose. CT from Kenosha to Breck, with a slight detour to Keystone Ranch via Red Trail, Hay Trail,…

  • Do you like to get HIGH, man?

    Yeah, man… I like to get HIGH… so here’s a trip report chock full-on with a bit of high country riding STOKE. After all… the Dude abides. These are from America’s Birthday 2013: and the ride was the Colorado Trail from Copper to Kokomo Pass as an out-n-back. Distance was 25-1/2 miles round trip with…

  • A Fine Plan Indeed – Wheeler Pass to Miners Creek Trail TR

    Saturday evening, after a satisfying day of riding downhill bikes at Keystone, my friend Dave and I started kicking around ideas for a Sunday adventure. Many options were bandied about over Great Divide Rumble IPA and greasy cheeseburgers (or was mine pulled pork?) but in the end we decided on a route Dave had been…

  • So Many Trails, So Much Fun: A Crested Butte Trip Report

    Over Labor Day weekend 2012, Steph and I headed to Crested Butte with a group of friends for 4 days of riding, relaxing, and general not-being-in-the-city activities. What follows is a trip report I have adapted from her personal blog over at Fear of Bananas with a bit of my own wordsmithery thrown in. Please give…