We’ll have our humble pie, then eat it, too.
Icy, dry, and windy describe the last couple months here in the Rockies. Without much terrain that isn’t blistered by moguls or glazed over by ice and wind-pack, we have opted to imagine back into existence our youth through riding parks. The video is so raw it could give you digital salmonella. But I’m putting … Read more
Early Season Ski on Guanella Pass
Ah. It’s that time of the year here in Colorado where there is just enough snow to tease then coax the snow-deprived into packing their gear up a hill only to destroy the goods in one run. Steven and I, without many 14ers we feel comfortable to climb right now, decided to head out to … Read more
Snowshoeing Tanglewood Creek in the Mt. Evans Wilderness
The Deer Creek/Rosalie/Tanglewood trails have been a go-to for my wife and I anytime we need a quick wilderness tour and don’t have a lot of time to travel. The view from Tanglewood’s summit yields unique views of the southern Front Range and the undulating expanse of the Great Plains. The trail becomes faint in … Read more
Climbing Grays, Torreys, and Kelso Ridge
With no full moon to light our way, Steven and I had no reason to set our alarms for 11.30 pm to leave by midnight for the trail. Instead, we decided to sleep-in until 2am. At 1am I was brewing coffee, and just as tired as if I’d woken at 11.30. So much for energy … Read more
Mt. Harvard: Less Gentry, More Dirtbag
We wanted our second ascent to be more challenging, but still within our expanding skill levels. We originally chose Mt. Columbia because it offered a vista that we imagined would be as eye-dazzling as Quandary’s, but which was twice as long a climb with a step up from cat. 1 (Quandary) to a cat. 2. … Read more
The Columbian Exchange and Protecting Our Ecological Heirlooms
In Charles C. Mann’s latest eco-historical book “1493″, he recounts how Christopher Columbus re-assembled pangea’s flora and fauna identity. Pangea was the connected conglomeration of the earth’s continents before they split. He did this through, what we can now deem, ecological globalization: The spreading and re-distributing of flora and fauna back to continents where they had … Read more
A Road Less Travelled: The Flat Tops Wilderness (Wagonwheel Trail-Days 6-7)
Everything in the world is beautiful, but Man only recognizes beauty if he sees it seldom or from afar.-Vladmir Nobokov from “Gods” We left the Holy Cross area by mid-morning. Car after car cut through the cakey dust, sending helical plumes into the still air over Homestake Creek and onto it’s riparian shoulders. We left … Read more
Bloody Spandex: Grand Junction to Utah: 80 miles on a tandem: Bucolic Bufoonery at its miserable best
Click here to view Route When Garret proposed the two-day, hundred to eighty mile bike/camp trip, he couched it in terms like: “super fun”; “bro time”; “Really-super-fun-bro-time.” I then imagined myself on a bike, gliding through Big Sage plains beneath the serrated horizon of the Colorado National Monument, finally winding down to the Colorado River … Read more
Boulder Velodrome Brings Latin Back to Biking
[An article Jason wrote for the University of Colorado's student paper, The Advocate.] Original article Leave it to the cycle geeks in Boulder to build something called a velodrome. In order to understand this awkward Latinate word, and why it literally means “track-for-speed,” I went to Boulder Indoor Cycling Center to see what object merited … Read more
Groomer Sessions at Ski Loveland
Posted by sainteterre on November 12, 2011 · 2 Comments
After gouging our gear and bodies on granite stones at Guanella last week, Steven and I opted for some manicured groomers at Loveland this week. I am a Loveland pass holder, but Steve is still drinking the corporate Kool-Aid that Vail Resorts pours him every winter. Though there are many more skiable acres beyond that … Read more
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