pshloss
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RR: Sweet, Cool Colorodo Singletrack
Just got back from a week's vacation in Colorodo at Breckenridge, which is about 2 hours west of Denver. Definitely some awesome riding to be had. Average elevation was 9000-10000 feet and the highest ride I did was a climb up to Boreas Pass at 11,500 feet.
They've had a lot of afternoon thunderstorms recently so everything was very green and tacky. A lot of riding in dense forests with green undergrowth, giant mushrooms and creeks. The highlights were the Colorodo Trail (I did about 15 miles of it) and local loop I did that included a nice singletrack called the Blue River Trail and then after a lot of climbing up a service road an awesome unnamed singletrack up one side of Mt Argentine and then down the other. Also did a great 10-mile singletrack trail called Peaks that they had recently done a time trial race on. And a fun, short, rocky little devil called Burro. They have DH stuff at most of the ski resorts a la Mammoth. But if you are going to go that far, it should be for the sweet singletrack. Even the service roads are pretty spectacular as far as scenery goes. I got lucky with weather, too, as the highs were in the 60's all week. Highly recommend it!
Pics:
1) Nice view from the ski hill at Vail
2) A shot of my rented Superlight from Peaks Trail
3) Peaks Trail
4) View from Boreas Pass Rd
5) A fox on the Blue River Trail
6) Giant orange mushroom
7) Some sweet smooth singletrack
8) A lot of the trails were rocky and rooty and pretty challenging when climbing at 9000 feet plus
Just got back from a week's vacation in Colorodo at Breckenridge, which is about 2 hours west of Denver. Definitely some awesome riding to be had. Average elevation was 9000-10000 feet and the highest ride I did was a climb up to Boreas Pass at 11,500 feet.
They've had a lot of afternoon thunderstorms recently so everything was very green and tacky. A lot of riding in dense forests with green undergrowth, giant mushrooms and creeks. The highlights were the Colorodo Trail (I did about 15 miles of it) and local loop I did that included a nice singletrack called the Blue River Trail and then after a lot of climbing up a service road an awesome unnamed singletrack up one side of Mt Argentine and then down the other. Also did a great 10-mile singletrack trail called Peaks that they had recently done a time trial race on. And a fun, short, rocky little devil called Burro. They have DH stuff at most of the ski resorts a la Mammoth. But if you are going to go that far, it should be for the sweet singletrack. Even the service roads are pretty spectacular as far as scenery goes. I got lucky with weather, too, as the highs were in the 60's all week. Highly recommend it!
Pics:
1) Nice view from the ski hill at Vail
2) A shot of my rented Superlight from Peaks Trail
3) Peaks Trail
4) View from Boreas Pass Rd
5) A fox on the Blue River Trail
6) Giant orange mushroom
7) Some sweet smooth singletrack
8) A lot of the trails were rocky and rooty and pretty challenging when climbing at 9000 feet plus
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