Category: Dirt
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Crested Butte Hot Lap
Crested Butte… what a trip. Got away for a few days mid-week to get away from the city, the pandemic, the everything. It was good for the head and heart. This is my sister-in-law-to-be taking a picture of me and my gal on the road part of our 28-mile epic ride. Deer Creek in CB,…
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47 for 47
Kinda weird not being in Moab for my birthday, as has been tradition for so many years. But instead of crying over spilled milk or rampant viral pandemics as it were, I decided to make lemonades and do all the things I like doing on my birthday. Celebrated by eating my favorite breakfast and going…
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Mountain Biking during a global pandemic, in a state with stay-at-home orders
A couple of things upfront: First, I live in Jefferson County, CO about a mile east of NREL, which makes several trails (including South and North Table Mountains) easily bike-able from my house. Recently, Jefferson County issued a stay-at-home order for all residents, and later that day a state-wide issue was ordered. These stay-at-home orders…
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Apex Park Management Plan Feedback
Hello Mr. Hoby and the JCOS staff, As a Jefferson County resident and frequent visitor to all of JCOS parks, I thank you for investigating a new management plan for Apex Park. The current management plan has proven to be inequitable between user groups, confusing for park visitors, and in my opinion has created far…
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Hot Laps and Gangsta Raps
401 Doctor Park x2!
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Butterfly Hat Trick
It always starts with an idea, and then a couple people decide it sounds like fun, and then a couple more, and before you know it you’ve lined up enough people and vehicles to ride three of the trails off of Monarch Crest in a day. Such is the way this day came together. Turns…
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Laboring in Steamboat
Spent the weekend camping on a friend’s property in Oak Creek, near Steamboat Springs. It’s always a good time with this crew, plenty of grilled meats and whiskey around the campfire, punctuate with mountain biking and SUPing and playing ball with the doggos. This was to be a solo mission for me, meaning sans girlfriend…
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Guerrilla Trail Education
The first sign in this series of pictures has been showing up in a lot of the local parks, and was created and placed by the county’s open space / parks and rec department. And while there are certainly legitimate complaints and concerns about riders riding too fast on multi-use, bi-direction trails, it’s always stuck…
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Marched right past dumb, and sprinted straight to stupid
“We have an endocannabinoid system in our bodies that needs to be nourished.”
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All these horseflies must work for JCOS
https://www.strava.com/activities/2574124759
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Bluetooth Coffee Cup
Still some great color out there, apparently you just gotta know where to look. I got super high (12K) riding Copper to Searle Pass with my lady on Saturday, then moseyed over to the Minturn area and rode around in some aspens on Sunday… Climbing Line Shack. All the aspens. Found this sweet little cabin…
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Mom Nature’s Finest Hues
Monday: wherein Evan posts tantalizing visual media rife with the beautification derived of Mom Nature’s finest hues, accentuated by altitude of magnanimous proportions. Topping out at 11,300′ of elevated bliss, I submit for your measured consideration Crested Butte’s Trail 401 in peak leaf peeper glory, an infinitely attractive redhead, and one ugly dude who can…
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