Category: Dirt
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You absolutely should go use that vault toilet in the Snowblind campground right now it is pristine
First time pedaling an e-MTB, and it was a proper trail for it. Jeep road and moto-legal singletrack, with a massive climb and descent. I now understand when people say “You can still get a workout on an e-bike” but let me tell you, it’s not the same workout. But if you push the pedals…
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Escaping the spring break crowds
I’d only ever ridden the first section of the Rainbow trail as the “end” or last section of the Monarch Crest epic ride, i.e. “full Crest” or “Classic Crest” as I often refer to it as. I’ve heard folks around here will ride just this section as a loop by climbing up Silver Creek Road…
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You Can Hear That You Have Traction
A little over a year ago The Canadan, one of my best friends, suffered a stroke. He really thought he might die, and after a day or so when it was reasonably certain he wasn’t going to die he thought he might end up permanently damaged. Damaged? Disabled? What is the term? Anyways, I remember…
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The Roots Before The Roots
A couple that Teh Spousal Unit™ and I are good friends with found out The Roots were playing a free show at Copper Mountain, and being tried and true Fun Havers®, of course they invited us to join them. We hemmed and hawed about it for a bit, as we’d been out of town every…
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Fee Fie Foe Fooses
The sign has moved, but this view though. Nowhere else in the world can you get this view. #IYKYK
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The queen will never win the game, for Rumpelstiltskin is my name!
So, do you name your bikes? Your cars? Your boat? It’s a controversial subject, it seems. And there’s no in-between, you’re either a namer or a non-namer. I find the namer crowd likes to have fun with it. And the non-namer crowd, well they seem to get pretty surly about it.
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Tow Curious
Surely we need a permit for this amount of fun? I’m just shy of 12 weeks out from a total hip replacement, I’ve been on and off the gravel bike since the start of the third week and got a few local, short mountain bike rides in a couple weeks ago. But this weekend was…
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Accidentally Sandbagged Myself
After last week’s successful exploratory mission, I mapped out a longer route that connected up to Futurity from the south. More miles, more dirt roads, more climbing, more… fun? Yeah sure ya betcha.
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You Gotta Let the Flavors Flave
Is there anything more satisfying than finally nailing the saddle tilt on your curly bar bike? I say there is not, as it really does make riding so much more enjoyable. And on the curly bar bike is where I’ve been spending time, since having a total hip replacement a little less than four weeks…
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The Pint-to-Pint is dead. Long live the Pint-to-Pint!
It was the first Saturday in November, 2020. I was up early and made a big breakfast, fed and walked The Cartel™, and was ready to leave by 9am. I ran over a dead squirrel just as I left my house. I pedaled toward my destination, a calm contentment sweeping over me as I spun…
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Man, I miss Moab.
This was the first year I’ve lived Out West™ that I didn’t make at least one trip* out to Moab. IDGAF how busy it’s gotten, that place has some magic in it… and not just the mushrooms. So many fond and amazing memories. Night riding Amasa Back in February, deep frying a turkey at camp…
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Your dog is larger than I expected…
I’ve been a lot of places in Colorado, but I’d never visited Grand Mesa until this past weekend. Holy crap is it beautiful up there! Lush forests, rolling terrain, and tons of lakes. We also rented/borrowed a Sprinter camper van for the weekend, as we really feel this is the way to go for our…
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