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This means a lot to me now. A photo of mine is on a beautiful Continental Divide Trail display on Berthoud Pass. It’s of a mountain biker riding the CDT in Montana. But he’s not just mountain biking, bikepacking! And it’s not just any rider, but bikepacking pioneer Mike Curiak. Knowing what I now …. [Continue reading] 
It can’t take us more than 3 hours to get to Argentine Pass, can it? We’ll have plenty of time to beat the storms. For being a map guy, I sure didn’t check the maps. I assumed it would be a hair over 12,000 feet. Why? I’m not sure. Eszter knew better. The top …. [Continue reading] 
Currently sitting under a staircase, waiting for the rain to let up. We knew this was coming. We actually haven’t seen much rain, but we did find our way into some gumbo mud. The trail was rerouted for the logging of beetle kill, closing a mile of trail and putting us on a …. [Continue reading] 
Cjell Mone (pronounced Shell Money) joined us today. He claimed that we were his heroes and that it would make a young boy’s dream come to true to ride with us. But we all know who the real legend on the divide is. We met up at the Tennesse Pass Cafe, for a late …. [Continue reading] 
Ummm, yeah, today was a good day. It didn’t seem like it was going to go that way at first. We woke up along Clear Creek, with a nice warm up on roads. We stopped at Vicksburg to check out the ghost mining town. There you can ‘push the button’ and hear a bunch of …. [Continue reading] 
Despite being a town and rest day, we covered some miles. Bikes are like that sometimes. We woke up late from our Colorado Trail campsite and left even later. We knew town was not far. We saw peak baggers heading up to Mt. Princeton and a couple CT hikers. The trail itself was tasty. …. [Continue reading] 
Flat ground. No mosquitoes. Warm temps. No threat that each and every one of our worldly belongings will be blown off the divide and into Saguache County. Where’s the challenge? This camp is going to be oh so nice! It’s great to be back on the Colorado Trail after a good long CDT beatdown. …. [Continue reading] 
It was hard to leave Salida but the trail called. The transition from town to trail is always a difficult one, made even more so when it is a town you love. We saw a couple more friends, by good fortune, before finally getting our act together and hitting the trail. The 4th was a …. [Continue reading] 
There’s an unwritten creed among Salida mountain bikers: always take the trail. Never the road. It’s one we joke about often, but also something we do try to strive for. Sometimes there are good reasons to take road over trail, but usually not. Waking up with barely a few hundred calories and tired legs? Not …. [Continue reading] 
new sign, same old Sargents Today we rode and hiked Sargents Mesa. It really wasn’t that bad. Sure, expectations were appropriately low, that helped. We were riding it backwards, so it was somewhat new to us — that helped too. Being in tour mode, with some good sleep and rest banked — yeah, that aided …. [Continue reading] 
Sleep was hard to come by at the Raven’s Rest hostel. The open mike music went on late into the night, and then the random strumming and drum circle continued into the wee hours. Some thru hikers are funny. It occured to me that this is really one of the first times bikepackers have really …. [Continue reading] 
Coming to conciousness, I slowly realized where I was. I had slept hard. Oh, I’m warm and in my sleeping bag, but I’m inside! Eszter is getting the woodstove going again. I’m in a yurt, right on the continental divide, at nearly 12,000 feet. Snow capped mountains are all around, green meadows and huge …. [Continue reading] 
Camp Cataract was warm enough, but not very restful. Â The wind didn’t die out until the middle of the night, and I just couldn’t seem to get much continuous rest. Â So it goes when you’re sleeping above 12,000 feet and it feels like a winter storm is moving in. Â It hasn’t …. [Continue reading] 
There really are no words for this. Otherworldly, foreign, beautifully hostile. It’s unlike anything we traveled through so far, and unlike anything we’ll see anywhere else. And we are camping in the middle of it. We’re perched just above Cataract Lake, just below a saddle between two rock outcroppings. It was the most sheltered …. [Continue reading] 
The signage claims it is only 74 miles from Durango to Molas Pass, but I’m not buying it. It has to be more. As soon as I get to a copy of TopoFusion I will have to do an investigation. Anyone who has ridden it, even unloaded and in the favorable direction (opposite of how …. [Continue reading] 
We were all set to camp above Bolam lake, eating dinner and settling in. Then I saw a rather large bear walking just in front of us, heading down to the lake. “Hey Bear!” It scurried off as soon as it heard us… but camp felt compromised. We had tried to stop early. There was …. [Continue reading] At long last we are back on the trail… homeless and with nothing but what we can carry (and a 20 pound bounce box). It feels good. Durango was a super layover and we sure lucked out on the circumstances, but I was so happy to be rolling out all packed up and ready for …. [Continue reading] 
I’m filling in the gaps in the photo story. Since I had my computer in Pagosa, I threw lots of photos into the actual daily entries. If I were really on top of things I’d have a Wifi camera that could transfer photos to my phone for direct posting. But I’m not that on top …. [Continue reading] 
The riding is done and the daily posts are up, but I still have a bunch of photos to share, all the way back from Grants — the last time I had solid computer access. Merciful mesa on the flanks of Mt. Taylor. Luckily the entire 5000′ is not gained …. [Continue reading] 
Note: Scott and Eszter are thru-riding the Continental Divide Trail this summer, currently waiting for snow to melt in Durango, CO, having completed New Mexico. They think riding bikes on the CDT is awesome. They also think hiking the CDT is awesome, and are continually in awe at the thru-hikers they meet. This list is …. [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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