Category: Colorado
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Georgia Pass
I first rode Georgia pass during the six-stage Breck Epic race back in 2011. It came in the middle of the week, and I raced it in a blur – grinding up French Pass from Breckenridge, and not fully appreciating it. I finally went back to take a look a little closer. The day after the Firecracker, […]
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Colorado Springs US Cup
The Colorado Springs US Cup was the last round of the four race series. After the preceding three races being held in March (still winter in Colorado), I was worried the series may have lost some of the momentum it had gained earlier in the year. As it turned out, this was the best race of the series […]
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A few days in Edwards
Christa and I had a mini “work from home” holiday last week. As Christa’s dad was getting a new spine put in, and therefore was forbidden from doing pretty much everything, we stayed up in Edwards to be house servants for a week. Among the standard cooking, a little bit of cleaning, and plenty of […]
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Up hardscrabble road – exploring Eagle’s singletrack
The GoPro games XC race was on Saturday afternoon. It took just one hour and twenty seven minutes to drain weeks of preparation into a hastily produced PDF sheet of results, with my name printed neatly on the 9th row. That hour and half of effort left me in restless tiredness all evening. Luckily I had a companion in […]
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The GoPro Mountain Games
The GoPro games is Vail’s way of filling the town with 50,000 people during a time of year that most ski resorts still idle and empty. The protective white coating on the hillsides has barely revealed the fresh sprouts of summer grass, and the Aspens have their young yellowish-green leaves in contrast to the dark […]
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The back of Boulder County
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The Iron Horse Classic
The Iron Horse Classic MTB race, scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled due to bike eating mud. From arriving in Durango on Friday until the race at 8:30am on Sunday, low clouds hung over the valley. Occasional glimpses of the high country revealed a fresh sprinkle of white on the peaks. Bryan and I warmed up in […]
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The Firebird 40ish
As a follow up from my post about the Firebird, I wanted to add some after the-heat-of-the-moment thoughts on the weekend. My blog was pretty negative; I knew that when I was writing it. It’s a strange thing to go to a race, not feel all that good, win, then leave with a big prize in […]
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The Firebird 25 – Eagle outdoor festival
It’s been a wet spring in Colorado. Successive bands of rain and snow have dumped much needed precipitation across the parched hills, and the high country has stayed white much longer into May than is normal. I’m happy about it – Boulder is greener than normal, and the rest of the state may be just […]
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One week in April
Although I can’t believe it, we’re coming to the end of April, and with it Spring will slide seamlessly once again into summer. The days of spring in Boulder are numbered. Brief splashes of warm sunshine have played across the Mountains, accompanied by ever-increasing greenery in and around town. Between the warm breezy days huge storms have […]