Dirt&Snow

Category: Dirt

  • #GetHigh4Graham

    Revisited Wheeler Trail to Miner’s Creek in Breck a few weeks back, as part of a big ol’ group ride put together by Will who started the Go4Graham Foundation, a non-profit working to raise awareness, fight stigmas, and break the silence surrounding mental health and depression. Good group of folks, and a bunch of strong riders…

  • Gold Coin Highway

    Oh man, I’ve been ignoring this blog for a while now… but don’t you worry I’m still getting HIGH, man. I have a few other rides to back-post, but figured I’d chuck this high-country classic in the mix to add a little fall color to the blog. A little Kenosha Pass out-n-back with my favorite…

  • The Salida Sortie

    About once a year for I don’t even know how long, my good friend Ben comes out to Colorado to ride for a week or so. Every year, I try to take him somewhere he’s never been. And by the end of the week or five days or however long he is able to visit,…

  • 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,…