In what has to be one of the best April fools’ jokes in recent memory, Mother Nature pulled off a beauty this past week.
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The rides of March
The seasons around here have a certain familiar rhythm, a certain feel. A lot of that rhythm has to do with the activities you can do each season.
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Given the generally lousy snow conditions this ski season, this video seems appropriate.
Continue readingSometimes the snow finds you
What a strange winter. The 2025/26 season is shaping up to be a record bad year for snow in Colorado.
Continue readingFat Bike Worlds 2026
It’s been a while. No good excuse for the silence. I haven’t been out of the country or laid up in the hospital or anything noteworthy like that.
Continue readingGold on Green’s
Ah, fall in Rockies. Changing leaves, cooler temperatures, and another wave of tourists seeking out fall foliage Instagram moments in the mountains.
Continue readingNothing but a number
We humans love our lists. The best movies. The greatest novels. The longest rivers. The fastest land animals. The tallest mountains.
Continue readingRandom Distraction
A description of this video, “man throws a tire off a sand dune” sounds so innocuously boring that you wonder why anyone would make it, let alone watch it. Then I watched it. Several times. One of the most strangely soothing, oddly satisfying things I’ve seen in a long time. No words, no filler, just roll. Set to music. Reminds me of the random stuff you used to find on the Internet of years gone by.
Maybe I should stick to riding bikes
After completing my climb of Mount of the Holy Cross last fall, I noted that I’d climbed all 15 of the Sawatch 14ers, putting my total number of 14ers climbed at 26. A milestone, of sorts.
Continue readingMonarch Crest – A Local’s Guide
To date, I haven’t done a video of the Monarch Crest. There are couple of reasons for that.
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