Tag: mountain biking
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Thanksgiving in Hot Springs
We decided to do something a little different for the Thanksgiving holiday this year: a mountain bike trip to Hot Springs! Michael had the entire week off thanks to his school schedule, but for me this would be a work trip for the first part of the week. That meant cell phone coverage was a…
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Sedona and Beyond (aka Prescott)
After spending the night at Schnebly Hill, we headed up to Flagstaff to resupply. Dog food, groceries, and a new Luci Light from REI later, we headed back to Sedona via Oak Creek Canyon. It was a Friday afternoon – the Friday before Easter, so the drive down the Canyon, while beautiful, was pretty crowded.…
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Sedona: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
We arrived in Sedona on Monday, April 10th, and promptly met up with our friend Wayne. He’s an old friend of Michael’s – they used to work together at the Fort Collins REI. Wayne now lives in Prescott and came out to show us the best of Sedona’s mountain biking. We headed over to Sedona’s…
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The Holding Pattern
Tucson turned out to be a pretty cool place. The people there were friendly and it was pretty diverse, thanks to the University of Arizona. Tucson is a good-sized city, so we had multiple oil-change places to pick from, as well as several Discount Tire shops. So we took a day to take care of…
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Greetings From Tucson
We moved on to the city of Tucson on April 1st. It wasn’t that far away from our last campsite in Coronado National Forest, so we had time to stop in the Tucson REI and spend some of our dividend. After that we looked up local bike shops, with Google telling us that the number…
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Time to move on…
At the end of our ride on Thursday, Michael turned to me and said, “So, was that epic enough for you?” We left from our camp that morning and rode this route at Navajo Rocks: Big Mesa -> Rambler -> Rocky Tops -> Middle Earth -> Big Mesa. A lollipop loop of almost 16 miles.…
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My kind of town
I have often said that it’s too bad Moab is in the middle of the desert. If I thought I could handle the summers, I would have pushed Michael to move here years ago. But the summers here are awful – weeks of 100 degrees. Not my idea of a good time. So spring and fall…
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Getting to Moab
After riding Grand Targhee we made tracks for Park City, UT. We spent a night at a lovely site outside of Swan Valley, ID, and then pressed on. We did stop briefly in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, for a shower and soak at their public hot springs. $6 per person. I almost fell over at…
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The Lava Fields of Idaho
What, you didn’t know Idaho had lava fields? Well, join the club. Until a few days ago, neither did I. Driving along Highway 26, just a few miles from Craters Of The Moon National Monument, I saw what looked like recently turned earth. I mean, it was black. But like big chunks of black earth.…
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High above Steamboat Springs
It was a beautiful day when we arrived in Steamboat Springs. Beautiful! Not a cloud in the sky. We finally got away from the rain. Saturday afternoon in August… Steamboat Springs was packed. Still, we found a place to park in the shade and checked in at a local bike shop. The guy there let us…
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Adventures in Crested Butte
Michael politely suggested I change the subtitle of this blog, to “let’s go traveling” instead of “let’s go adventuring.” See, the thing is, adventures are not always fun while they’re happening. And Crested Butte was an adventure. We arrived under sunny skies, near dusk on Tuesday, and quickly found a nice spot to camp along…
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A last little getaway
After Michael gave his notice at work, we took the opportunity for a little getaway and headed up to the high country with the dogs and the bikes. I apologize for these pictures – they are definitely not up to my standards. But with the house sale going on (inspections and appraisals and such), I didn’t make…