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To think, if we hadn’t been shellacked by hail and rain, and if I hadn’t woken up with a splitting headache, I might have gone the rest of my life without jumping on a trampoline in the middle of a lake! That would have been a serious loss. It was seriously fun. 🙂 We …. [Continue reading] 
At least there wasn’t any lightning. And at least the soil wasn’t clay. But we sure got pounded by a good old fashioned Rocky Mountain storm. Without much warning (no thunder) we quickly found ourselves getting pelted by hail and watching the dirt road start to flood. It was an impressive amount of water falling …. [Continue reading] 
“Are you sure we are actually on the CDT?! This isn’t the trail we know.” Wow. The CDT almost feels like a different trail in Montana. As soon as we rejoined it at Reas Pass, we rolled on to nice bench cut trail and very bike friendly grades. Good signage, too. The 13 miles of …. [Continue reading] 
It’s great to take zero days on the trail. But between work, planning the route ahead, blogging, email and other computer catch up, there’s never enough time. Even when it rains for 3 days straight and we take two zeroes here in West Yellowstone, there still isn’t enough time to do everything computery I’d like …. [Continue reading] 
We rolled up to Old Faithful lodge 4 minutes before the famous geyser shot off. Had we arrived by car, we would have missed it. Once you get to the Upper Geyser Basin, it’s so much better to have a bike than a car! Before that… a car might have been better. The climbs …. [Continue reading] 
Eszter gives her best Grizzly Bear pose in front of our cute little Grizzly Cabin. At $25 they are a steal, and a huge upgrade from sleeping in a wet meadow with Pooh Bear clouds that come and rain only on us. Today we got to play cyclotourist. All dirt and paved roads. 
After today’s ride I sure don’t feel shortchanged on adventure. I’m sure the Wyoming Range is beautiful and full of challenge, full of unknowns, but the CDT had all of the above, and then some. It was perhaps the most difficult route finding on the trail yet. It is compounded largely by the fact that …. [Continue reading] 
We didn’t end up taking the Wyoming Range route. Instead we are going to brave the yellowstone crowds and ride through the park. Turns out Eszter has never been, so why not? She rightly pointed out that the Wyoming Range trail sounds like something I should enlist Lee Blackwell on, for a different trip. Multiple …. [Continue reading] 
I feel like we just did a nice evening mountain bike ride. We did, of course. But this felt like a ride you’d do from home, or that you would do while visiting a Colorado mountain town. You know, regular old mountain biking — not backcountry CDT style riding. What a surprise to …. [Continue reading] 
There’s hike-a-bike in the Basin. Who knew? There’s also good water. And trees. And rocks. Mountain biking! The CDT has its own route through the Great Basin, since walking the big wide roads of the GDMBR would be sub-fun. We were excited to see what it would bring us. It’s called the great basin because …. [Continue reading] 
Well, we finally got a touch of bad luck. It really has been incredible how well things have gone, and for so long. To think that we are over 60 days riding (plus 2 weeks off in Durango) and thus far it has been such smooth sailing. Great weather, pretty favorable winds, excellent mechanical luck, …. [Continue reading] 
It’s hard to break the town vortex while on the CDT. Even harder when you have good friends, and it’s 90 degrees out. By the time we left ‘the boat’, we knew it was going to be dark at Strawberry Hot Springs. Not the ideal situation, having never been there before. The road was much …. [Continue reading] 20 miles yesterday, 60 or so today. So it goes on the CDT. From our buggy camp the trail continued in rough condition, on par with what came before. Deadfall everywhere, a forgotten road. We reached the divide and transitioned from grassy meadow with no trace of trail to a beaten in 2-track. It was …. [Continue reading] 
5:45pm – this is the earliest we have stopped all summer. We had just waited out a thunderstorm near treeline and threatening skies had pushed us through the last miles of Poison Ridge. We had escaped into the lower trees. A glance ahead on the GPS revealed we were set to climb right back …. [Continue reading] 
If not for the mosquitoes, this is a perfect camp. The trail here is right along the divide, and we are camped just off if, next to small outcropping. The view is huge. We can see Longs Peak, Wolverine Ridge and all of the terrain of the last half a day of riding. We …. [Continue reading] 
Back on the trail! Despite five or so days off, and only one day ride, it was the smoothest transition back yet. We might be getting a few things dialed in, or it might just be that for once we weren’t facing 4000 or more feet of climbing out of the gate. 4000+ has …. [Continue reading] 
We’re gearing up for the next leg out of Winter Park. Familiarity is running out. Wyoming is coming. It’s been great to watch it rain from indoors, and great to rest some, too. Days off end up being pretty chaotic, too, trying to catch up with emails, trackers and whatever else is going on in …. [Continue reading] 
Flying by bike. From Lake City we were on a big Wilderness detour. When the roads are dirt, beautiful and car-free, it’s hard to complain. Especially because those roads lead you to sweet and juicy trail. Oh yeah! Find camp and ready ourselves for the punishment of Sargents Mesa. 
After nearly two weeks off the trail, which we spent day riding, working and catching up with friends, we loaded up the bikes and rolled out of Durango. It was a long detour around the Weminuche Wilderness, but it meant we got to ride 74 miles of Colorado Trail. A good choice for a CDTbike …. [Continue reading] 
Motivation wasn’t high in Georgetown. We felt like zombies after a late nap at the Super Ocho. The thought of hitting the trail early to tackle more riding above treeline didn’t sound too appealing. Sleeping in did. Summit County and Argentine had hammered us. After stuffing ourselves silly with pizza, things started to look better. …. [Continue reading] |
 Scott Digital Nomad, nowhere, USA Lifelong mountain biker, trail mapper and programmer. Sometimes bikepacker, sometimes runner, sometimes packrafter. I love to ride my bike, get out, and explore this beautiful planet we find ourselves on. I live in a 20 foot GeoPro Trailer, traveling about the west. Main author of TopoFusion GPS Software, co-founder of Trackleaders.com. More... Projects / Sites  
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