Dirt&Snow

Category: Dirt

  • 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…

  • Toasting In The Shortweek! T.I.T.S. Ride

    Yesterday was Thursday and for us that means it was T.I.T.S. ride night! I haven’t been out with this group in quite a while, so I was pumped to ride. We rode from Ironworks, of course, and then hit up Green Mountain.

  • Angel Fire to Taos: South Boundary Trail

    SBT = South Boundary Trail The SBT is an incredible trail ride that I’ve been trying to do for three years or so now and I finally got to do it this past weekend during our trip to Angel Fire, NM. The South Boundary trail is a 20-30 miles, depending on who you talk to…

  • T.I.T.S. Ride: Mother Effing Cold

    Today is Friday, so yesterday was Thursday, and that means night riding on Green Mountain. It was barely 20*F, which I knew might be past my limit for riding, at night, in the winter, but I gave it a go anyhow. I was encouraged a bit when some of the guys commented that it was “frigid out,”…

  • T-Gives Trail Riding

    Normally we head to the hills on Thanksgiving morning to make some turns before we stuff our faces full of turkey, but this year, it was nearly 70 degrees in the Front Range and the trails were calling our name. We hit a loop from Wrigley’s, up Dakota, to Red Rocks, Matthews Winters, and then…

  • My Return to T.I.T.S. Riding

    A couple of winters ago we started going for mountain bike rides on Thursday’s at night. This guy was one of ring leaders and has become the unofficial CEO of the T.I.T.S. crew. They were affectionately dubbed T.I.T.S rides, which originally meant, Today Is Thursday, Sweet. Throughout the season we would name each ride something…

  • “It’s all totally rideable, bro.” – A high country adventure

    “It’s all totally rideable, bro.” – A high country adventure

    Yeah, so kind of at the last minute I joined Mike, Aaron, Andy and Shane for a little jaunt through Colorado’s high country. I’ve heard for a long while that Mike has a’likin’ for some SRSLY big-ass death-march hike-a-bike style high country rides and have wanted to join him on one for a while now,…

  • Turns Out You Can Ride Every Trail at SolVista in 2 hours :: A Suckerpunch Race Report

    So today was the Suckerpunch race at SolVista Bike Park, which I had no intentions of actually racing this year. It’s a first time event, and I know the guys at SolVista but just was into being chill this weekend and getting on the DH bike in a non-competitive setting. The format was intriguing though:…

  • ¿Tu sabes yo soy loco?

    I booked a mountain bike ride with EcoRide in Puerto Vallarta for a little two-wheeled happy fun time action while I am here on vacation with the family. Turns out, being a gravity junkie, I made the right choice of the three main mountain bike outfitters here in town! Rogelio set me up with a guide named…