Hello again, Should be leaving boulder tomorrow morning to hit winter park, co for some awesome downhill runs! Been planning out my general route! So far my general hope is to be heading south along the west coast by early october. We'll see how that goes, this trip is taking a lot of time, there's so much I want to do, I wish that I could have left earlier!

So heres the general route I've come up with for the next week or two. B-biking J-cliff jumping, all dates are estimated! Included is the cities/towns, and what the names of the trails and other places I am going are!

Co/B - Winter park resort 8/28
Co/B - Buffalo creek 8/29
Co/B - Aspen - Government trail 8/30
Co/J - Aspen - Devils punchbowl 8/30
Co/B - Salida - Monarch trail 8/31
NM/B - Taos - South boundry 9/1
NM/J - Abiquiu - Abiquiu Lake 9/1
NM/B - Los Alamos - Lower quemazon to guaje ridge 9/2
NM/B - Santa Fe - Dale ball central trail system 9/3
NM/B - Gallup - High desert trail system 9/4
Co/B - Durango - Rd 18 trail systems 9/6 - 9/7
Co/B - Fruita - Tons of trails 9/8 - 9/10
UT/B - Moab - Slick rock + others 9/11 - 9/12
AZ - North secton of grand canyon 9/13

Thats ll I got picked for now!

 

Enjoy Kyle.
Looks like a GREAT plan.
We will be back here digging out form the storm.

 

Winter park? cool! ive been there snowboarding twice because its where my parents lived for 10 years, always wanted to go mountain biking there

 

Thanks Andy! If I was home, I'd probably be out on the body board, either in the sound, or over in RI!

Miles, anyone who I've talked to out here has all said the same thing, go biking at winter park! It's going to be the first chairlift ticket I've ever purchased for the mtn bike, 39 bucks for a whole day!

I am really looking forward to it, as I just got the front fork rebuilt for the mountain bike, feels so much better, the whole bike is plush, responsive, and most importantly, working properly!

Stay safe guys!

 

I looked at a nice jamis full suspension bike at ems, it was awesome besides the price lol. and I think it was a little small for me

 

Ah yea, you can definitely spend some serious $$$ on em. If you wanna take a chance, wait til around December, go to the bike shop, find the '11 models on clearance, i did that with mine back in 08 and got it 40% off. But they usually have real limited selection!

 

Today I went and rode winter park! Had a pretty good time, rain shut the lifts and trails down early though . I couldn't use the go pro for some reason, it kept shutting off after a few seconds of filming. Still was a good time though!

 

Evening from Salida, co! Guess theres a free campground on highway 50 so ill be parking there for the night! I cut two days worth of biking out of the trip. Drove to the buffalo creek spot, but decided to skip it since they wanted $$$ to park, then drove to aspen, skipped there because of rain/t-storms.

The drive to aspen was real nice, went up over independence pass. I'll be doing a trail tomorrow that starts at the top of monarch pass on highway 50. Looks like 20-30 miles of riding!

 

You're an animal.
Go Kyle!!!

 

Haha thanks Jim!

Rode the trail today, starts at monarch pass on route 50 in colorado, rode that bad boy out for 13 miles then back to the start, lotta up and down! I was so tired when I got back to the van, felt like I was drunk! Trail started at 11,300, climbed to 12,000 and then down to 10,800 at marshall pass. I continued on after marshall pass along the continental divide trail/ colorado trail, whichever you want to call it for a little longer.

Great scenery, best views on any biking trail I've done so far. A lot of it was above the tree line!

I am currently in Taos, NM. Gonna do some ring here tomorrow, but if I am to sore, then I'll cruise over to Abiquiu lake for some clff jumping, then onto los alamos.

 

**** new mexico, this place is filthy, got 1 ride in here yesterday, thats it, wasted this part of my trip. Was gonna do some epic riding today, get to the parking lot, broken glass everywhere, go to park at the local grocery store, instantly mobbed with beggars and homeless drunks, askin me for money, eying up what I have. Last night, sittin there in the van, guy tryin to break into the car right next to me. I'd like to go do some epic riding here, but it's not worth getting my stuff jacked!

Off to durango, CO!

 

Wow that's scary! Probably a good idea, buggin out like you did!

 

Note to self...No trips to New Mexico!!

 

It was ridiculous! Currently in Durango, CO! Nice to be back n this part of the rockies!

 

Ah Durango, once, if not still, the sex change capitol of the world. Very beautiful country though. Hope you're having a good trip. Bummed I missed ya while I was out there