• Glacier Lake Day 2

    Today we wanted to see how far up the drainage we could go. Every 500 feet of climbing it leveled out to another series of lakes. The first one was triangle lake. And then the next one was Sheep lake. On our way up to the next level I landed the wrong way and hurt…

  • Glacier Lake Day 1

    We parked in the parking lot and headed up the trail. We just Bought Elle and last night car camping out of it was great. So much room and versatility. But now we were starting our bike backpacking section of our vacation. The climb was pretty long but eventually we finally made a way to Glacier like. That was the…

  • Elle

    Elle is our new car. And what did we do for it’s first date? Took it 4 wheeling in the Beartooths. It was all good … until the marmots ate the wiring. The marmots ate your baby!

  • 2015 24 hours of Rapelje

    This year Mo and I teamed up for the two men er I mean two person division. Overall and that includes all male teams we won the two person division. Actually this was pretty fun and it revitalized my interest in 24-hour racing. Doing the Solo is pretty hard but was even harder because you…

  • WNA #4 – Urban Legend

    Exhausted we could not just forget what we started. A last minute move to save the series it was decided to ride the Urban legend, a quick and dirty as you will. There is more single track then you think and it is the reason it is my long way home from work. total participants…

  • Boulder Pass

    Another car camping trip. Ye ha. We decided to go up into the Absoroka and camp on the Boulder River. And just like any other adventure we had to see where this road ended up. It ends up that it turns into a trail that goes past in a ghost town. And then up to…

  • Chrome

    I know what you’re thinking. The Chrome browser right? Well there’s also a mountain called Chrome in the Absoroka Beartooth Range. And what do you think snuggles and I tried to do with it? We tried to climb the damn thing. And you know what we saw. Oh no wait a second that’s the next…

  • The Crazy Climb

    Another car camping trip in the Crazies. Well not another trip to the Crazies but another car camping trip. Previously we had been to the Lewis and Clark and the Tobacco Roots. now it was time to test our skills in the Crazies. We found a ridge, studied how to bike up it, and crushed…

  • WNA #3 – Sniping the M

    Someone, and I will not mention who, forgot their helmet. So we needed to start from Aero Cafe. This is a formidable ride. Tons of climbing. From story Mill up to the junction of the Foothills trail. And then the heralding bomb down to the ravine between Sypes and the M trails. Then more climbing…

  • Like old time Montana

    When I was young I loved this state because you could do these huge adventures without seeing anyone and camp where ever. We spent some time in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Not that many people take the trek to this isolated hunk of land that includes the Little Belt Mountain Range. Little Belts…

  • Sluice box

    We visited Great Falls to be with friends for a special occasion. On the way back we treated ourselves to a state park I have always wanted to visit. It did not disappoint. After chatting with a park ranger we discovered that no one knows if bicycles are allowed and most importantly why one would…

  • WNA #2 – Mystic Ride

    So many things get in the way. But you must fight. And we fought back to life’s busyness with another installation of the Wednesday Night Adventure series and busted out the Mystic Lake Cabin Ride. It rained of course and we got out late. But we did it. Take that life!

  • The rewards for a rainy vacation

    My big block of vacation time came to an end with a sunny day. And what better to happen but to stumble upon the ride of the year. An obscure little loop called Brownback Gulch. Fantastic downhill through the pine and aspens. Even my partner was ripping the downhill. And it all started with a…

  • What to do on rainy days

    We had a block of days off available to us. We had planned to attack the Lewis and Clark National Forest and plan our adventures from base camp. But on the day we were supposed to put up our camp we did found numerous campgrounds. But it was raining and we didn’t feel like getting…

  • What to do the day after a rainy day

    Continuing on from the previous blog post. We woke up to a nice and although not really sunny, better day. It was cloudy but looked like there were areas on the horizon that were possibly better. To the West is a mountain range called The Tobacco Roots. It didn’t look that bad over there so…

  • Hammock Test

  • Wednesday Night Adventure

    No, not a ride in Hyalite. Actually the only ride is a short one to the store to pick up some chicory for our morning tea. No, tonight’s adventure is packing. It starts tonight as we pack the car to the hilt with bikes and car camping materials. Then it all continues tomorrow when we…

  • Afternoon Commute