Today would be the end of the “easy” days. There wasn’t a lot of elevation today in the grand scheme of things. We would end up riding just under 33 miles and gain about 2,350′ for the day. The difficulty would be that we were finally dropping down to under 5,000′ in elevation after spending…
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San Juan Huts – Day 4
Today would be the last of the easy days. It was also the last day we’d be at higher elevations so the moderate temperatures were going to end. The hut for today’s end was on private property. We’d have access to a shower too, that was sounding pretty darn great at this point. It was…
San Juan Huts – Day 3
Today was a very chill day. Dean and Johnny B left about thirty minutes before Prosser and I rolled out. Carl, Matt and Colby were going to do the optional singletrack sections today. I wasn’t in the mood to deal with my seatbag rubbing against my tire and I think Prosser was a bit tired…
San Juan Huts – Day 2
You know what the best way to start a ride is after a brutal climb the day before? Descend around two thousand feet in a few miles to start your morning on day two! It was nice to drop back down below 9,000′ first thing. Today was a fairly easy day of rolling along gravel…
San Juan Huts – Day 1
When we last left our intrepid adventurers, they had all spent their last night in a beautiful mountainside cabin. Woke up to coffee at the cabin, dropped down to the village for breakfast at Telluride Coffee Company (the french toast was fantastic) and more coffee before rallying the troops to start this crazy journey. The…
San Juan Huts – Getting to the Start
There is this ability for the human mind to forget how difficult/painful an experience can be. This has to be why women have more than one child and, in my case (and six friends), I decided to ride my mountain bike over 200 miles from Telluride to Moab over a week. Dean, Johnny B and…
ON & OFF RHODES 