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  • Spanish Peaks Adventure Day 4

    For 3 days I have been wondering how we were going to fare climbing up to Indian Ridge which starts at Beacon Point at a little over 10,000 feet. “They,” say, a pack over 30 pounds is not good for extended backpacking trips. Try for ultralight 25-pound loads. Mine was around the mid-40s.  Mo’s was…

  • Spanish Peaks Adventure Day 3

    Thompson Lake sits at about 8,000 feet. A day off at 8,000 feet is a great idea. And to explore the surroundings. Some elements to note were White Bark Pine and Mountain Goats on the side of Gallatin Peak. And then there is an after dinner hike up 1,000 feet to some lakes with the…

  • Spanish Peaks Adventure Day 2

    In case you are wondering. Day 1 will not be posted because it was just a boring hike up an alpine valley in order to camp at the base of a climb to Thompson Lake. I never even took any images. I think we all know why too. I mean the reason day 1 is…

  • Fairy Lake to Around Ross Peak and Back

    One of our best adventures this summer was an epic ride around Ross Peak. This entailed climbing up and over Sacajawea Pass from Fairy Lake. Then we traversed the Bridge Foothills Trail. Once around Ross Peak, we headed back via some sweet single and double track to Fairy Lake.

  • Wednesday Night Rides

    Short year, we probably only rode like a half dozen times in and around Bozeman.

  • Coffee on a Stump

    So tomorrow we travel to Bozeman to prepare a trip the next day to Missoula. We then return to Bozeman and the next day to Mammoth. Then we have to pack for a move into position to hang in Bozeman to start selling stuff. Holy cow! So coffees on the stovetop here, with the electric bialetti…

  • Riding Scared

    Why ride around with enduro gear? Be enduro bra! A full-face helmet, pads, and body armor? Safety, that’s why. Scardy cats would ride around with full gear. And why do we rent or even own homes? House with a picket fence and a puppy bouncing around in the backyard? Well, why not get rid of…

  • What is Adventure?

    I guess if I were to choose I would pick new adventures. When I go alone or with my adventure partner snuggles it is preferably doing something we have not done before. Don’t misunderstand though, I love a good bike park where I can rage down the same trail until I completely nail it. But is that…

  • Comfort Zone

    I miss Missoula. Smooth trails that one can ride and dream at the same time. Here I am out of that element. I am not saying I don’t like being out of a comfortable setting. In fact, I would like to campaign for challenging oneself and stepping out of comfort once in a while. And this morning I…

  • This Isn’t My First Enduro

    It’s my second. And so in trying to catch up on my blogging, I am about to discuss my second Enduro. Oh, yea and trying to connect last June to now (late September) to prove that life is the same parallel. As in “not my first rodeo”.  Get it? Like not the first time I am…

  • Direction

    I wonder if anyone has ever seen something coming for a while but just procrastinated the time away until that something comes along. Like someone gives you evidence that the earth is warming and that eventually, we lose all our high altitude environments. Maybe that is a bad example because it is becoming true and really…

  • My First Enduro

    The transition to the new bike was harder than I imagined. I would throw a leg over the most magical bike in the world and it would take me away to the most exotic places on wings of speed… Instead, I couldn’t keep it on the trail and I had no feedback from planet earth. And…

  • Little Bear Cabin and the Pledge

    My partner went away for the weekend and my mind went into plan mode. Where could I go and what should I do? It had to be something that normally she would not do with me. Bivvy out? Multi-day ride trying to cover a big distance. At this time I didn’t even know enduro existed;…

  • What Happens Sometimes

    OK, so there is only so much time every day … or in life. Much like our attempt back in April when we attempted to get to Window Rock Cabin. There is stuff I used to do all the time without much difficulty. Like blog almost every day. Or just ride our bikes up to…

  • Annual Yellowstone Bike Trip

    Every spring we take a drive to Yellowstone Park and ride our bikes up from Tower Junction. Last April we did it again.

  • Three … ish … Months

    It has been that long since my last post. I guess things got busy. And I had to repair myself. It’s been 3 months … maybe more. After the long journey into why I feel dizzy I am close to a verdict.  My brain is healthy and I even have repaired the un-repairable … my…

  • I want to ride my bike … my real bike

    Last week I nearly had 1 or 2 mental breakdowns due to winter weather. The last one resulted in me tossing 200 bucks into the garbage and hiding in the shower for three hours. They found me weeping in the bottom of the shower that had turned cold. Some people think that I love winter.…

  • The death of weight weenie

    Maybe it is all the snow and the inability to do a REAL bike ride. You know … on the dirt. Right? But then again I love fat biking. So I am not blaming snow and cold. But this week I have had two metal breakdowns. I am fed up with something. So I always…