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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] 
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] |
 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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